Men of quality do not fear equality.
Get gud
Submitted 1 year ago by CluelessDude@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
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someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
spaxxor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is in my top ten favorite quotes.
bouh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wouldn’t call a skilled gamer a man of quality though, not without more informations about him…
Fapp@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Anyone who can play support all day is a god
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ain’t just gaming. I dropped a note on a home tech forum while being visibly female and very rapidly realised i’d forgotten how fucking neckbeardy rank amateurs are
I’ve been a network/systems engineer for 25 years, my fellow pros would never be so gauche.
Except dev.
rediot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except dev. 😞
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Rather ironically, I’m actually married to a dev
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Also, a disturbing number of misogynistic people in web design/web dev needing help from technical support. It was rather shocking and educational for me as, a cis male, to work as a support supervisor. I never anticipated the level of sexism and harassment that my female techs faced on a daily basis.
Everything from asking of they want to do porn to “can I talk to a man”. I had several techs that had to change the names that they used for customer communications to male or neutral ones due to the severity on the unending sexism despite regular warnings to the customers that this behavior would not be tolerated.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Working sysadmin gets you four times more abuse because it’s the crux of ‘mean person won’t let my idiot arse run rampant on a system because they’re mean and i hate them’ and ‘fuck youse wimmen’
jcdenton@lemy.lol 1 year ago
All I heard was men submissive to men
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Low elo men confirmed biddable and breedable
jcdenton@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Amen
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nobody fears competition more than the mediocre who only get by on the weight of their privilege.
zepheriths@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can someone please find the article they are referencing?
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Talk about being the change you want to see in the world. Thanks for the link, I appreciate it
pixxelkick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wgst I would be really interested in, is how does it play out in reversed scenarios.
How do inexperienced women react to a singular man commenting in a competitive area that is female dominated, do you see the sane sorr of vitriol from lower performing women, vs welcoming behavior from better performing women?
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Well if you want a reversal you need to be true to the parameters: get an experienced male operating - not commenting - and you need to do so NOT in an area dominated by women.
Because the gender split in gaming is almost 50/50. A 1% difference is negligible
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s true for all video games but most competitive games with an esports scene will have many more male players than women. A lot of this is due to the extra toxicity female gamers experience in those scenes. Not only do they have to deal with the usual toxicity that everybody does when playing those kind of games, but also have to deal with the misogynistic and rape comments on top of that.
I wish it wasn’t the case, and it does appear to be changing with time, thankfully. I notice quite a few more females in CS2 than I have in the past. I hope to see many more females in competitive esports in the future.
AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Loser gamers are mad screaming chimpanzees confirmed
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well in my observation the weaker players are quite often the more toxic ones. The “what a safe” spammers in rocket league are often the ones getting carried.
mayo_cider@hexbear.net 1 year ago
That’s part of the strategy, nothing tilts people like the bottom scoring talking shit
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
If someone’s so busy emoting in RL they ain’t playing hard enough.
Maoo@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Evo Psych is a garbage field for frauds but I would buy insecure dudes expressing more misogyny.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Evolutionary psychology is very much a real science. But like every other science, it is based on a lot of assumptions. So the actual scientists work mostly on boring theoretical questions, while the frauds often come up in the news pushing some pseudoscientific defence for their bigotry.
calypsopub@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I disagree with the conclusion. My experience is anecdotal, of course, but I’ll share. I’m a gamer female with a husband and grown son. Husband is gone now, but the three of us gamed quite extensively together and separately for years, playing various MMORPGs and MOBAs, among other things. My son is exceptionally good at gaming, I am mediocre and consider myself a proud “filthy casual,” and my husband was absolute dogshit - to the point I had to leave my chair and go help him by taking over the controls to get him past certain difficult hurdles (and my son does the same for me on occasion).
My husband’s ego was never threatened by this. He never took his frustration out on me. Why? Because he was a decent person who was confident in his masculinity.
In the end, lack of skill does not cause misogyny. I believe misogyny springs from the same source as the lack of skill: a tiny brain.
adeoxymus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not saying I agree or disagree with the author. However you being his wife did not result in “female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy” (their words) so it’s not really an argument against their hypothesis.
(Of course your husband being nice and not a dickhead probably also plays a role)
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TLDR: correlation != causattion
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah but I doubt your husband would flame you because you 360 no scoped him, becsuse you are also within shoe throwing range
morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Scrub == scrub
Got it
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 year ago
Based af
sirico@feddit.uk 1 year ago
That’s a rock fact
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The study for anyone interested.
There’s a bunch of articles written about the study. As much of a shitshow as you’d expect.
Destraight@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Look up the keywords on Google Scholar?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Always has been, weak men can’t stand women outpacing them, this is not limited to gaming but basically everything.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Had co-workers say they would never marry someone making more than them. Shit is so weird.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
jfc, being a home-husband is the dream, their fucking loss
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
It shows how stupid and against your own best interests this kind of thinking can be.
I am the full time worker in my family, and happy to be the provider for them. However, I would be a stay at home dad / house-husband so damn fast if my wife got some random job mom making a lot more than me. I do have my priorities in order, after all.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'd do housework and care for the kids in a heartbeat if my wife made enough.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My genuine theory is that many (if not most) people are emotionally stunted or emotionally immature. You don’t get this kind of mentality from someone who is balanced.
Now expand that to every facet of life and you get the world we live in.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Hahahha most of our relationship i made more than his lordahip. Now he makes more than me and he hates it
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe because it is not in realm of possible instead of something they don’t want?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'd love to be a kept man. I'd wear skimpy outfits and work out every day and have all the chores done and a hot meal on the table when she gets home every day.
stevehobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The issue with this is it’s too simplistic.
What it’s actually saying is “it’s easy to not be misogynistic as long as you’re significantly better than all the women”.
It does not imply that you won’t be misogynistic as soon as you are threatened.
Ie when status quo is maintained (patriarchy is intact for you) it’s easy to support women.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It would be interesting to see if it’s really because of how they are as individuals or more about the response to social status thing. Like if they did an experiment where high performers were deceived into thinking they were actually performing poorly, and vice-versa, would the attitudes towards women be reversed or not? The conclusions in OP seem to imply the researchers think they would be.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My hypothesis is men with low self esteem would be more misogynistic vs men with high self esteem.
bouh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The reverse is not true unfortunately. Skilled men are often mysoginistic assholes too.
notonReddit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Menopaused hands typed this
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
Women being better than me at something, especially something I'm interested in and have some skill at, is so fucking hot.