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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/syphsbroomstick on 2023-09-03 03:45:19.
TW for threats of SA etc:
I’m a 15 year old girl who really likes to play video games. Recently I’ve been playing a game called Valorant and I’ve been playing it a crap ton and I just want to do a quick rant on how much I hate playing video games as a girl.
For starters, Valorant is a tact shooter which requires you to use your microphone to communicate with your teammates. I think you can see where this is going… As a girl all I have to do is turn on my mic and I get bombarded with people calling me slurs or just saying incredibly disgusting things in general. I hear 20 year old men telling me that they rape people or me or how they follow women on the street or saying disgusting things considering that I’m 15. I feel so incredibly frustrated because when women press their concerns on the Valorant community the basic responses by the male player base is don’t use your mic, use chat and people are toxic to guys. People don’t seem to care about the harassment we face in video games. Nobody looks at the chat when they are playing the game, only in the phase before the round starts and there are people who act completely normal until they hear a woman in their server. It is 100% misogyny and sexism. I’m just so sick of it. I expect to be treated like a human being like the rest of the playerbase instead of being hit with ‘Go back to the kitchen’ every round.
I get that its not all players and a lot of people argue that its not everyone and that these people are a minority… Which is untrue because this happens every four games or so. I know not everyone is like that but it pisses me even more when a woman in my game gets flamed or bashed and our other teammates aren’t standing up for them along with me.