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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

oh dang, women have been telling you for the past like 40 years that video games are an incredibly exclusionary space and turns out they weren't just lying??? crazy, it's almost like we should be listening to people when they have problems in a community. i mean jfc people actually needed a study to prove this? ask any woman who's ever attempted to speak in game chat what happens, just ask.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.

    Oh wow, I didn't knew that Super Mario or Tetris on the NES was an "incredibly exclusionary space" because that's not how I remember it.

    I'm glad you taught me that.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    Being a girl trying to talk about video games with boys was generally horrible, it's not just the multiplayer experience, the 'you like games, then name every X ever!' followed by bullying has been alive and well for over 30 years.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Activities don't need to be inherently sexist for the culture surrounding them to be. Consider the ways things like healthcare, cooking, and hunting have been gendered in different times and places.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    gotta love that you not only completely missed the point, but you quite perfectly encapsulate the kind of "gotcha" rhetoric that women hear every day in gaming spaces from these toxic men.

    it'd be funny if it weren't depressing.

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