Well, I just started reading this thread today. Ugh. Go back and take a look at page 1, it starts off with people posting nonsense even before any replies to the original question.

This is pretty much a poster child for the stereotype that gamers turn into complete idiots whenever women are around. It's sad.

No, I'm pretty sure the sad part is people feeding the fire by taking their posts seriously (all in jest, don't hit me ) But seriously, it takes a reaction, and quite frankly, any reaction will do. Annoyance is only one step below hilarity, if that.

Im still trying to get my girl clan together....

Are you serious? Girl clans are formed because generally they tend to be male dominated, females would generally be overlooked, regardless of their skill. There's a NEED for them because they'd be little other option. I'd also like a definition of what "dirty sexist game-slut" means.

If you're not serious, ignore this post.

Ill ignore this then, totaly sarcasim. I don't even know what a game-slut would be lol.

When I was in a COD1 clan we met someone with a girly name. Someone asked if they were a girl (I wonder what they were looking for...?) and she said yes. Thats the only one I 'know' I played. I just couldn't ask questions like that - I hate how horrible it sounds, however well you word it, it comes out as: "R u a gurl?! ASL?". So I don't, I don't even care. But the more girls there are, the more I fade into the background where I like to be.

Pub server with a 'girl' in it I don't even talk. This is the time, all the other fools are distracted thinking about girls. She may as well be a figment, she won't sleep with any of you. Idiots! *HEADSHOT*

omg, I just read one of the funniest things on a "girls playing games reciving harrasment" topic comment ever at gamepolitics. I thought I'd brighten your day with it. From www.gamepolitics.com

My favourite is this line "I see now people that don't hit women, they just rape them, because hitting on women don't work anymore, they even sue you for sexual harassment" WELL OF COURSE they sue you, you just *raped* them!?!

*NOTE - I DID NOT WRITE THIS* lol

"Yes, there are guys that are jerks, or are in extreme necessity to the point of keep requesting cybering and that stuff...

But let's get real: Men and Men, Women are Women, we ARE diffrent (mind you, I am not saying that women or men deserve a better/worse salary or voting rights and that stuff...), for Men, hitting on Women is not only natural but also instinctive, I never had a girlfriend, I don't have time now to take care of one (I don't mean that men need to take care of girlfriends in that sense, what I mean is that I don't have time to don't arrive late to see a movie, or time to see a movie at all... or to chat randomly...), but still, when I see a pretty women I look at her! Then people get all sorts: Oooh, you are a machist guy because you look at the girls! No!!! I am not machist, I am just a MEN, and men NEED women (or at least should... or the majority at least), and it is instinctive to look at women... People then get all supress your instincts and whatnot... And I ask: For what? Get sick? You see how much damage we are doing to ourselves sometimes being that way? Currently there are a discrimincation-phobia that is creating more discrimination than helping, I remember few years ago, when I was a child, I just went around playing with the neighbors of my grandma, I was a white guy, had some money (ie: I am not rich, I still don't own a PS2 for lack of money to buy one), and there was other children that were black, japanese, girls, boys, poor, rich, all togheter playing, and noone cared, we don't cared... Then people come with that gay rights, women rights, black rights, and whatever rights, and laws against racism, laws against sexism, and what I see is that people are starting to hate each other for that, for example I see that lot's of companies now refuse black people... Why? No, it is not because they hate black people, it is because they feel that black people hates them, it is because that if a black person complain of racism, you get sued of your ass and has to pay millions to him, even if the racism was you dismissing him because he was not a good worker, I see now people that don't hit women, they just rape them, because hitting on women don't work anymore, they even sue you for sexual harassment, there are people that do the inverse, they become assexual, usually this has negative results on his/her life, but I see that, I see people that hate gays because gays keep pressuring on some rights that infringe that people right, I see for example lots of gay hating on religous communities that have the religious belief that being gay is a sin, while before that gay rights stuff the they do not bothered much gays, gays went around and people ignored them, some in the belief that after they got really converted they would become heterosexual again. But now instead, not marring (in religion, not legal... legally it is still a crime to a gay marry... ironic...) a gay is a crime, and I see open hating inside churches toward gays, not only as deterrant to them want to marry there, but also because they perceive the gays as trying to destroy their religion using legal artifices...

It is all wrong, that racismphobia and sexismphobia is generating more racism and sexism and hate than anything else, I see laws for "racial equality" that enforce universities accept x% people of certain races, and while before a black guy on a university was just a black guy on university (even if rare and minority), now it is a cheater guy on the university because he got because of the system, not his own merits, at least the other students perceive him as such, and now we have racial hate (not only toward blacks) because laws that made attempt to give rights to minorities...

Seriously... Hitting on a girl is sexism? So what I am supposed to do when I decide to have a girlfriend and marry, wait the girl hit on me? "

I don't know why I find this so funny.

lol just because there are no females here people are saying all they want.

Wait.. I thought twifightDG said that about getting a girlfriend and not the guy who wrote the tl;dr rant..

Its nothing personal. English was derived from languages where objects have genders, such as latin, italian, portuguese etc (not that English was derived from Portuguese, but Portuguese still has genders)

For instance, in Portuguese you would say: the car, he is fast, or the hat, she is beautiful. because those words have male and female genders respectively. However, in Portuguese, there are more masculine words than feminine ones.

In french, you use the feminin form for anything from 1 to an infinite number of that feminin object/person. but add one male to the mix, you must use the masculine form.

The fact is, older languages are dominated by the male gender. Alot of modern languages still are. Hey, its archaic and sexist, but its old, its over its done, no point in getting angry over it, you are not going to change some of the most widespread languages on the planet to become more gender neutral within within your lifetime, so relax.

With English, we have the advent of the word "It" to describe objects or things of indeterminate gender. However, English still stems from gender specific languages. The act of calling a person He when you dont know their gender is simply a fragment left over from those times that has snuck through and become common place, especially since women only gained equal rights and whatnot like what? 30 years ago? it takes a little longer for language to change than that.

Also, there are certain professions and circumstances where males or females are more likely to be present. For instance, Females are often not allowed to serve on Submarines becuase of the close quarters. Whereas Swimming Teachers and Daycare Centers often employ women only, because children are more comfortable with women at young ages than with men (i know this personally). In those circumstances, yes, sexual profiling is rampant, but it isnt wrong.

On the other hand, there is the thing of there being no women on the internet. Its not true, but its not entirely unjustified. I'd like to consider myself as having a large number of female friends. maybe 0.1% of them play video games of any sort. the extent to which they are on the internet is MSN or equivalents, Facebook and equivalents, and of course research and other standard uses for the internet. Its not for gaming. Yes, there are female gamers, but there are most likely more male ones, and certainly more vocal male players.

Simple Fact.

Oh, and or the record, i think radical feminists are more sexist than men ever were. Ancient Men were active sexists, puttng females down aggressively whenever they stepped out of line. More modern men were passively sexist, laughin politely when a woman presumed to step out of line. Nowadays, hardcore feminists are more sexist, more powerful, and more AGRO than men ever were. If you even whisper anything about equality, or sexism, or feminists being too aggressive, or anything on the topic (as seen by Phaedyme's post) they fly off the handle and scream blue murder.

Men never did that, but feminists are more than happy to swing the Equal Rights/Public Opinion/Sexual Discrimination machete around like a helicopter whenever they feel threatened. I realise its not everyone, but enough to give feminists a bad name.

THAT doesnt win any respect for them from me.