And before some smartass goes like: “are you living in the 90s? Girls play videogames dude, I’m a girl gamer! I even play Fortnite and CoD with my roommates.”
Videogames in terms of the crowds that attracts is male dominated, especially as adults. Some girls replying that they play doesn’t change that fact. I’ve never met a single girl into games… except one. My English teacher, she was younger than me, I think barely an adult (night school for adults). But I quit that place without finishing the studies and never connected with teachers, plus we’re from different countries, there’s no common ground, aside that I’ve never an adult woman into them. Do they think they’re silly and childish?
Some women who play games don’t broadcast their gender, to avoid harassment.
There are some games that are played by more women than men, like Animal Crossing.
I’m a woman hugely into mmos I never say anything unless I’ve decided I trust the group enough to talk.
That’s me. I played a game with a group for almost two years before I let them know my gender. I still regret telling them some days.
Sorry to hear
Nah, women do play videogames: https://www.statista.com/statistics/232383/gender-split-of-us-computer-and-video-gamers/
One. That’s outdated and two, typical USA egocentrism, They’re not the world.
12 months ago outdated? Has the video game world turned around since then?
Nope, not outdated. And I do believe that US statistics are somewhat representative for North America and Europe, which is where most of Lemmy’s traffic comes from. But please, give me the statistics for your country, I’d be interested in seeing how they differ.
Edit: Have a look at this “Global Gamer Study”, the results don’t look all that different: https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/spotlighting-women-gamers-and-how-they-play-and-spend-on-video-games#:~:text=Out of the total cohort,people call them a gamer.
I know a lot of women who play video games, I even like some of the games they like. The Sims 4 for example, Animal Crossing, Story of Seasons games; these ladies even like games which men tend to prefer like COD (that I as a man can’t stand anything multi-player or competitive). The problem with them revealing their gender online is that oftentimes they are faced with harassment by dudes bros online. It can get pretty gross quickly, so you’ll likely never know if the women surrounding you play video games because they’d only share that information if, as a person, you were one to be considered safe.
Well put
Thank you!
Women make up a significant proportion of video game consumers. It is just more socially acceptable for men, thus its more openly broadcasted. They also tend to play different games. Men tend to have a higher draw to violent games when compared to women, so you may not see women represented as much if that’s the kind of game you’re basing this off.
Also, nobody here is going to be able to tell you what all women think of videogames or even a general consensus.
Myself and a bunch of other women are incredibly proficient raiders in an MMO we all enjoy. I end up playing with random women in my parties all the time.
Also like, spaces that are hostile to women (ie, groups of guys who go “why are there no gaymer grills I want a goth gamer gf”) are gonna drive women away, so if you are in circles with people who behave that way, you’ll probably encounter fewer women.
I don’t frequent any type of online circles. I’m just talking about my experience.
I mean okay sure but did you read the rest of my comment
Lol I knew it was you. I knew it was you literally within a couple hours of you creating this latest account. And I knew you wouldn’t be able to help yourself posting some incel shit eventually. You literally can’t help yourself. Go touch some grass and stop using the computer.
What was their previous account?
@fookreddit69@lemm.ee @kimdracula@lemm.ee @SORROW@lemmy.world @FVCKVRSELF@sh.itjust.works @D1G1T4l_B4TH@lemmy.world @Kimdracula@sh.itjust.works @0001@discuss.tchncs.de @BEWARE@sopuli.xyz @Fuckers@feddit.uk @Hatred@endlesstalk.org @Nobody@feddit.org @mascara@lemmynsfw.com
Edit: I’m willing to bet money his new one is Empty at leminal.space. I’ve seen this guy say before he doesn’t even understand what the problem is with ban evasion. In his amoral little mind, it’s just the natural thing to do when you get banned to immediately make a new account somewhere else and continue the exact same behaviour.
They have been banned, I’ll add a mod comment to see if people want to remove the post or not
Cheers. Keep an eye on that new account I mentioned at the end there. I realize there’s not a lot of evidence yet but I’ve gotten pretty good at spotting him.
Thanks!
FYI you should glance at the account I called out here’s profile (empty at leminal dot space). It’s definitely the same incel, and he’s posting his same incel crap on this muni. I called it when the account had literally one comment and one post. Told ya I’m getting good at spotting him 😅
But there is seemingly someone… Sympathetic to his incel BS in the mod team because reporting him doesn’t seem to do much.
Thank you for the report.
It is kind of a tricky move, because their previous account got banned at the instance level, not the community level.
I banned the new account for 3 days at the community level for the ban evasion, but thinking about it, at the community level, they didn’t break any rules.
Sure, the constant whining could be considered trolling, but I guess that’s an edge case.
Let’s see how it goes in a few days, as they’ll probably come back with this account or another.
Man, I remember back in the 90’s when the world’s best competitive Quake player was a woman.
OP has been banned, should we delete or keep the thread?
Keep it, some answers were interesting
Please delete it
There’s an age gap to female gamers. Videogames were marketed to boys and not girls in the 80’s and the gender disparity stuck for a long time. It’s much more even for under-twenties.
i think it would be really helpful for you to include which country you’re from. in the US, i would think it’s pretty comparable, but in other countries, there are probably different cultural factors at play that make it difficult to speak to without taking them into account
from the way you write and your dismissal of e.g. candy crush as “not a real game”, i think those cultural factors are probably what’s preventing either 1) women from feeling like they’re allowed to participate or 2) women from revealing, around you, that they play games
fwiw, i wouldn’t assume that women as a whole assume games are silly or childish. some women probably think that, for sure, just like some men do. but their viewpoints are as varied as women themselves are. it’s very possible that they simply view them as a masculine hobby that isn’t “for women”, or just haven’t been exposed to any they’d be interested in, or, similarly to you, wouldn’t consider being interested in mobile games to be “real gaming”
Anecdotally, the women I know all play “casual” games, and don’t consider themselves “gamers” because they don’t consider these casual games (generally phone/app based) real games, even though they play daily.
It’s really just because a majority of games emphasize the action. But if you were able to know me, I’d be the second such woman after your English teacher. I even have done streaming. Loyal followers get a Pokémon nicknamed after them and get to see if it prevails.