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I never understood this mentality, myself.
Gamers: "I never get laid... π©"
Also Gamers: "Women are just kitchen accessories."
because you think of "I never get laid" as a normal human need to connect with another person, which is what it is but they're too deep in misogyny to realize it. instead to them getting laid is a quest to complete and it involves a quest item known as a woman, not a character. so I never get laid has less of an undertone of "why can't I connect with a woman" and more of "when will we get our government mandated sex slaves"
I can buy a new toaster from the shop, why can't I buy a woman too? Does this mean Gamers are pro sex-work? Or pro indentured servitude for women more likely..
You cant pirate pussy, and we all know how gamers feel about subscription models.
"but behaved more submissively towards players with a male voice" I want to know what they mean by submissive
They were less confrontational and more likely to accept direction
:D
"Given the chance, they would definitely lock lips with the dominant male"
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I am in mad love with this Darmok-ass comment.
Damon's Gatsby, his glass raised
Damon? Do you mean Dicaprio?
Darmok and Jalad when the misogynist raged.
Obligatory footnote: EvoPsych is mostly bunk, deeply intertwined with eugenics and riddled with homophobia, sexism and rape apologia.
Traditionally, yes, but I do want to note that modern takes use it to also argue for cooperation, since working with with others is good for survival and passing on genes. They also are the first to tell people how bunk the alpha male crap is, and the fact a lone wolf is a dead wolf.
EvoPsych?
Evolutionary psychology. I think thereβs real research in the field, but itβs drowned out by charlatans who invoke its name to lend credence to their made-up bullshit without the burden of scientific rigour.
This is part of why confidence is attractive.
It isn't that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it's that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.
Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.
Thatβs an interesting study. It makes sense that dominance-seeking behavior follows a βlow-risk, high-rewardβ strategy across species. The connection between status, objectification, and primate behavior is fascinating Morse Code Translatorβwonder if similar patterns appear in different cultural contexts.
I have ~10k hours in counterstrike across multi game versions and accounts. I noticed a similar thing over my years. The players doing well in a match were often neutral towards gamer girls, but the guy having a shit match would be the fastest sack of shit every time. Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.
Obviously there are always exceptions to any rules but in my anecdotal experience the guys who were confident in their abilities didn't care about women but losers would attack them just for speaking.
Politicizing games is so incredibly tiresome.
this literally has nothing to do with the game itself. it's about behavior towards other people, which is intently political.
also video games are art which makes them political as well.
the fact that you kneejerked into this reaction feels super insecure and reactionary.
More like I'm just sick of people hijacking my favorite art form to express political/social issues or sexual fetishes, both of which are becoming too common. It's exactly why I've grown more and more in favor of retro gaming, back when neither of those expressions were anything but a fringe group of miserable individuals and weirdos that most gamers ignored. Not going to argue further, I've spoken my piece.