Girl Video Gamers: Why the Persecution?
Why do girls who play competitive videogames online have to suffer so much?
It's an odd quirk of human behavior. Most guys who are into videogames would give anything to have a girlfriend or wife who shares their passion for killing random online opponents in Call of Duty or blasting zombies with them in a co-op Resident Evil mode. Yet when a girl goes online to play, as soon as the rest of the lobby realizes a female is in the room, she's assailed upon from every corner. "Put down the controller and go vacuum!" "You're only playing CoD because you're ugly and fat and no guy wants you!" "How are you playing Xbox? Did your husband put a TV in the kitchen?" "Go away, you stupid…" It generally devolves from there to language and insults that would make even Andrew Dice Clay blush. If you're not participating in the…
Chel-sea
12:03 am on Thursday, July 26, 2012
Talking trash or receiving it is just typical for online games today. I started playing xbox 360 online when I was 16 and was thrown full force into the insults/flirting/mocking/etc that girl gamers get. At first yeah its like "seriously?" but then after like 4 years of it (20, now) or even after a month or two you get used to it. You trash talk back! Thats the point. Why not? Youre behind a TV … more ›