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.

So, to participate in modern gaming, women should play games from 40 years ago?

Well you win the most asinine comment I've read today.

Even I remember girls getting crapped on in the arcades.

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.

oh yeah i'm sure your half rotten memory is a reliable source, thanks grandpappy

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.