Part of the game is puffing yourself up like a big shitty bird and blustering around with your inflated shitty ego. I *love* that. And I really don’t think that gender dynamics or predatory behavior or anything along those lines has to be a part of it.

You may love that, but that doesn’t make it good. Maybe you should think about the possibility that behaving like that makes you unpleasant to be around. Smash is my fav game too, and I get competitive with my friends but we don’t act like total pricks when we play.

It doesn’t have to be a part of it, but it *is* part of it. When male (and even female) players shit-talk one another, the language is remarkably gendered: competitors are called pussies, winning is often referred to as raping another player, and any number of comments are made about the sexual behavior of…

What?! “Celly’d” is the best thing about this piece!

It’s used in the eastern Canadian hockey world, too. So, basically everywhere.