Comment on What a shocker!
Album@lemmy.ca 3 days agoThanks for taking the time to share your experience with me! I’m sorry those things happened to you and that it had an effect on the way you play in the end.
Comment on What a shocker!
Album@lemmy.ca 3 days agoThanks for taking the time to share your experience with me! I’m sorry those things happened to you and that it had an effect on the way you play in the end.
medgremlin@midwest.social 3 days ago
I think it’s important for people to recognize the toxic effects of general misogyny and phenomena like Gamer Gate have on gaming communities. To this day, I see plenty of cis-male and trans-femme gamers wonder about why there are so few cis-women in gaming spaces without recognition of what gaming communities are like towards young women and girls who express interest. Nothing quashes your desire to join a community quite like incessant harassment, abuse, rape/death threats, and doxxing.
(To be clear, I am not insinuating that trans-femme folks have an easy time of things, but I can say they outnumber cis-women in gaming communities like Arma by a factor to 2 to 1 or greater. There are 3 trans-women in my Arma group and I’m the only cis-woman there.)