Yes, these people are men and name calling or trying to say “that’s not a true man” isn’t helpful, obscures the problem, and continues to support that really dumb gender binary.

In my own experience as a woman who games (aka gamer), I steadfastly avoid PVP lobbies, primarily because they are far too sweaty and toxic to be any fun. But... give me some Zelda, HZD, Uncharted, GoT, TLOU, Fallout... I’ve played them all multiple times. I would say there’s probably lots of other women out there who…

I’m a dude and I play with voice chat off, as well as any other form of messaging. I’ll only chat in pc MMOs if they have a nice community, a genre that unsurprisingly happens to have a higher female population. Otherwise, fuck that toxic shit. I mostly play with people I know, which happens to be my wife. She’s also…

Studies show that women who play online games tend to not participate in voice chats or otherwise make obvious they are women to avoid harassment 

These people aren’t men, they’re misogynistic douchebags. That’s it.

That “boys club” BS comes out of insecurity and lack of self esteem. These people don’t know how to approach women, or how to interact with them, and the few times they have done so they’ve been met with bad reactions (which tends to happen when you pull a girl’s hair), so therefore they resort to an air of…

This is very anecdotal, but an old classmate of mine from highschool has a daughter who’s like 16-17 now or somesuch, and she bought a PS5 using her own money so she could play the latest Horizon: Zero Dawn on it. At that time she’d already finished and generally played the hell out of the first one on PS4 by the way.…

If I play a multiplayer game I do not speak in game. 360 days I tried with halo and kept getting harassed. Some didn’t even believe I was a woman and kept calling me a squeaker. I feel like maybe too much anime time and not enough real life interaction with women or something.

Or most women know that if they talk about gaming around a lot of men they’ll suddenly have to “prove” their “gamer cred” or whatever or be belittled or talked down to or some combination of all of the above so they never let most men know they play video games of any kind, on top of avoiding voice chat because everyon…

Same. I’ve met plenty of women that have a Switch, and am friends with several of them. I’ve also met several on a discord server I frequent for PC games. As always, just let people enjoy things. I’ve never really understood the boys club mentality anyway. It was never something to embrace.

Of the ten friends of whom I have swapped Friend Codes on Switch, eight are women. And they love them some Zelda and Fire Emblem in particular

I mean, you can only analyze the data you have. If men don’t answer or don’t answer honestly, there’s not much you can do. Also, with THAT said, if you broke it down to type of game and genre, I’m willing to bet that women aren’t in multi player lobbies with voice chat on. They likely get harassed if they do. So they…

BUT NO GIRL I KNOW OWNS ONE!