Oh man, you haven’t been playing games with adult men much lately if you think this behavior is isolated to teens. Adult guy gamers are some of the most toxic, sexist and horrifying humans I have ever come across. There are days I nearly quit games with multiplayer elements - but my friends do it and it keeps me…

The problem is teens who are shitty like this tend to turn into adults who are shitty like this without significant ‘intervention’ so to speak.

This is one reason that I’ve never understood the hostility from many straight men to women playing video games. People should be able to do what they like, and it’s awesome if other people you may be attracted to are also doing the things you like.

100%. Imagine being able to approach your crush back in the day with a line like “Hey if you want to get better at this video game, I have a bunch of wins in it and I play a lot, I can give you some pointers”. The fact that it might result in a positive exchange would absolutely blow my high school selfs mind.

I really liked the way the article didn’t stop at a fracture, but tried to explain the deeper reasons behind, why it could be beneficial, how it’s a role inversion, why this version is suddenly successful, tempered with opinions from both detractors and ones who encourage this interest. No hasted judgement, no call…

This, right here: I guarantee all these guys are the same ones that will complain about how women are not interested in them, and how they only pay attention to assholes. Well, they’re all being assholes now: let’s see how long that works out for them.

I have a feeling guys say these idiotic statements...after getting their butts kicked by woman on the game.

It’s funny to hear talk about “real gamers” when conversation is about mobile game.

I do think some couples are gaming together. I saw at least a few conversations of people MAD that their significant other was better than them at Fortnite.

God, these insecure gamer dudes trying to gatekeep are just the worst.

Damn, I would have killed to have so many girls interested in mainstream gaming when I was in high school. All these boys are lacking vision: a shared interest is an unbeatable icebreaker. Dumbasses.

Every single time we make a stride towards some form of gender unity in this community it gets massively undercut by some assholes who think it’s somehow an invasion of their turf.

Toxic Masculinity so fragile dudes can’t handle girls playing the same game as them.

“Real players are on console” is clearly not as sad as the generally sexist arguments, but it’s doing its best to compete.

How appropriate! you fight like a cow!

You fight like a dairy farmer!

...from memory:

“¡Si! ¡Y ahora yo vengo por ti!”

I will proclaim my undying love of this game in the best way I know:

Trump is going to have an aneurysm (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!) and die when he sees this.

Yeah, she’s totally interviewing high-powered divorce lawyers, isn’t she?