tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post2263300630437165349..comments2024-03-14T10:08:57.717-06:00Comments on PriceCharting Blog: Sexism in Video Games [Study]: There Is Sexism in GamingJJ Hendrickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255138459888881579noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-24251245089780383102018-04-16T11:34:15.146-06:002018-04-16T11:34:15.146-06:00BUlly Hunters BUlly Hunters Rage Virushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10213785348303660333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-27554473947732632342018-04-13T01:49:28.189-06:002018-04-13T01:49:28.189-06:00I suggest you grab a dictionary since you don'...I suggest you grab a dictionary since you don't seem to understand the meaning of the words "research" and "study", this "article" is neither.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-28741355023081743582018-03-10T03:43:57.964-07:002018-03-10T03:43:57.964-07:00D BAL Max On the off chance that you are not kiddi...D BAL Max On the off chance that you are not kidding about working out, the primary thing you should center around is your eating routine.<br />http://xtrfact.com/d-bal-max-review/<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15159340067494405339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-10290586536110447832015-07-11T13:42:19.217-06:002015-07-11T13:42:19.217-06:00Where did you get those numbers? The number of res...Where did you get those numbers? The number of respondents was 874 according to the article. Those numbers don't add up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-71552164963607010752014-10-13T20:29:43.567-06:002014-10-13T20:29:43.567-06:00"this study is fucking genious. i feel a lot ..."this study is fucking genious. i feel a lot smarter after reading this and i like that you even evaluated the feedback. <3"<br /><br />^^<br />This comment of approval, its language, spelling and grammar is exactly how fucking genius this study is and the kind of intelligence it caters to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-91373777843574348932014-09-18T20:10:49.513-06:002014-09-18T20:10:49.513-06:00It's empty for me too.It's empty for me too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-13657576826167322102014-09-15T06:15:06.906-06:002014-09-15T06:15:06.906-06:00The data sheet is empty.
Is this a problem for me ...The data sheet is empty.<br />Is this a problem for me or does everybody cannot see any data in "Download the entire study results"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-31393589142873812332014-08-16T22:30:02.192-06:002014-08-16T22:30:02.192-06:00Your survey seems to generalise things about the g...Your survey seems to generalise things about the gaming community, it doesn't even take a ratio to know the proportion of people harrasing you.<br /><br />Any kind of game allows you to meet at least between 5 to 25 peoples, even more in mmorpg, while you might have 1 dude being rude (and your survey doesn't even take in account trolls) you will have 4 to 24 people that were never rude to you. <br /><br />The subject of sexism and harassment cannot be given away by raw stats, it has to be explained as well (ultimately, all stats need to come with an explanation). Including the fact that the number taking the survey is clearly too low to make a real assemption, you don't even tell the games that was used.<br /><br />And worse, since it doesn't give any kind of explanation, it is used as a basis of proof for people that want to demonstrates sexism made by males discarding the truth behind. (kids who should not be allowed to play such games, trolls, uneducated people etc.)<br /><br />I believe you need to update your survey, unless i missed something there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-45931928233586639492014-05-05T06:06:25.299-06:002014-05-05T06:06:25.299-06:00this study is fucking genious. i feel a lot smarte...this study is fucking genious. i feel a lot smarter after reading this and i like that you even evaluated the feedback. <3isabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778685816461389356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-92211663091823941352013-05-26T19:39:26.102-06:002013-05-26T19:39:26.102-06:00I've never really played online RPGs (like Wor...I've never really played online RPGs (like World of Warcraft or something) or whatever to really experience this sexism in video games. I stick most to 'private' console games where you don't have a ton of people playing like Pokémon or something. Not the massive online PC ones. This is my new reason why to stick to 'private' games. Also, where was this survey held? I would have loved to participate in it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-38063237830304199822013-02-21T11:33:41.029-07:002013-02-21T11:33:41.029-07:00I am so glad to have come across this page. I'...I am so glad to have come across this page. I'm currently attending college in the graphic design field for video game designing, I am a woman, and an avid gamer. For the majority of my open final projects, I have focused on sexism in video games (as in the design and story line) and in the community. It's so often that I get my opinion pushed aside because I am a woman, therefore I am not a true gamer, I only play facebook games, and cannot understand the gaming culture and industry at all. I will say that up until some of my male friends talked me into getting involved in an online FPS with them, I was positively terrified of being called out because I was born with a vagina and not because of my gaming ability. While on this latest project, I found this article, and it was a god send. In the last week, I have experienced more sexism, threats, and harassment because I don't believe every female character should look like Chun-Li and get kidnapped like Princess Peach. Just as I was about to give up, I found this. Thank you so much for giving me new inspiration and hope.Alexis R Hobsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-78130530698909636952012-10-22T08:38:40.901-06:002012-10-22T08:38:40.901-06:00Thank you so much for conducting the survey, for p...Thank you so much for conducting the survey, for posting your results AND data set, as well as for having the courage to engage in this research in the first place. Reading your findings and the comments above, the topic clearly remains a lightning rod for both serious debate and over-the-top-trolling, and I hope you are able to see the latter as additional fodder for your analysis and discussion. I also hope you continue on with the project... as suggested in some of the comments above, the research is timely and compelling, and it could indeed easily be expanded into a longitudinal and/or cross-cultural study. Sara M. Grimeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17168122635717142885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-46184275828293972392012-10-20T02:16:22.500-06:002012-10-20T02:16:22.500-06:00An interesting study and one that would be worth r...An interesting study and one that would be worth repeating once a year or so. <br /><br />I'd like to make some suggestions to perhaps help improve the above.<br /><br />1) I think it would make your charts much easier to understand at a glance if you included the %s in the bars. Right now I have to look to the left and see the axis to get an idea about the numbers I might be seeing, and even then it's a guess.<br /><br />2) When asking which gender people identify with, it looks like you've used the traditional binary approach (i.e. male / female). If you'd like a more sensitive scale, there is a seven-point masculine to feminine scale that is used where gender may be a sensitive topic that might give you a bit more granularity in your results. <br /><br />3) For me, the statement, "This suggests that men and women have roughly the same taste in video games" is arguably one of the most important points raised in this article. It provides some weight against the idea that women don't play 'real' games, which is a bedrock for the kind of implicit sexism this topic is often greeted with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-40818242060779491992012-09-29T07:58:40.622-06:002012-09-29T07:58:40.622-06:00Really interesting read, thanks for doing all this...Really interesting read, thanks for doing all this work.<br /><br />I agree that self-selection bias might be a problem (i.e. people who have been affected by sexism might be more likely to respond), but I don't think there's any other way to get these data. Given the fairly large response though (the sample size is large enough to allow generalisation to a population of around 50,000-100,000 using standard parameters)<br /><br />I find it pretty shocking though that the OP got threats simply for posting a request to fill in a survey.Samhttp://www.manchestergirlgeeks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-23010760688154923682012-09-12T16:45:58.851-06:002012-09-12T16:45:58.851-06:00I wish there were a way to collect this kind of da...I wish there were a way to collect this kind of data without the self-selection bias. As it is, it doesn't really seem that these results are exceptionally credible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-69107331258182525192012-09-12T11:07:31.928-06:002012-09-12T11:07:31.928-06:00Thanks for posting this. This data is depressing, ...Thanks for posting this. This data is depressing, but probably not that surprising.<br /><br />Keep up the good work.Morrigannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-28842496973827663382012-09-12T09:33:48.364-06:002012-09-12T09:33:48.364-06:00Emily, you got any pics?
This article has got me ...Emily, you got any pics?<br /><br />This article has got me pretty hot and i wanna fap...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-91315748395996822652012-09-11T22:43:49.149-06:002012-09-11T22:43:49.149-06:00Thank you for the survey. It's always great to...Thank you for the survey. It's always great to see hard numbers like this. Well, depressing. But it somehow feels nice to know I'm not the only one who absolutely refuses to play certain multiplayer games (and the public servers of the ones I do play) solely because of harassment.<br /><br />I'm glad you asked about genre preferences. I hadn't seen any numbers on it before, and the results surprised me. I was sure simulators would be significantly more popular with female gamers than with male gamers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-9103042971359765442012-09-11T20:50:29.615-06:002012-09-11T20:50:29.615-06:00To the "pussy ass bitch" being sexist de...To the "pussy ass bitch" being sexist debate, it both is and isn't. The words themselves are very sexist assuming aren't referring to a hybrid of a cat, a donkey, and a dog. But many of those using them (especially the young) don't even register the fact, it's just an unfortunate prerecorded response for a given situation. I myself exclaim "God damn" and "Jesus Christ" in spite of not following a belief system involving either of those entities. It's a language pattern that was created out of sexism and needs to be purged from the language.<br /><br />Also the idea that only the victim can decide what is harassment is flawed, especially since the victims themselves often don't agree within their own "group". That said, the vast majority of -ist comments of all varieties are harassment, and often victims don't even register it because they've been inured to it.<br /><br />Personally, if I'm in someone else's "space", and this behavior occurs, I leave, and may or may not confront the perp or discuss with the owner based on my relationship with said individuals. If I'm in a "space" of my own, I'll come down on the perp with a righteous fury. That shit pisses me off. =P<br />Oleakimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14528687225942713790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-13722063398163922672012-09-09T16:28:53.866-06:002012-09-09T16:28:53.866-06:00More food for thought
http://www.genderratic.com/...More food for thought<br /><br />http://www.genderratic.com/p/1846/harassment-in-gaming-too-much-focus-on-women/Elamshinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617218996315989109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-21715744396570655992012-09-08T14:37:59.331-06:002012-09-08T14:37:59.331-06:00I think your audiences that said no, do not know w...I think your audiences that said no, do not know what sexual harassment is, or do not play online, because I am nearly certain that you are 100% guaranteed to be called a "fag" if you plan to play online.<br /><br />I do not, but I do not go through a day when someone does not throw slurs as such. Also, from my experience, females tend to be more prone to call people "faggots" while men tend to go with insults toward moms.<br /><br /><br />Food for thought.<br /><br />IF you want to discuss, I'm more than open to talk about it, as I do take this to be a very serious matter and I do not condone unsportsmanlike conduct in gaming.<br />---<br /><br />OH, another reason for people to say no is that the MMORPG community tends to be much better. There's not really a reason to insult or harass each other (beyond PVP) in a grind kind of game. But the general rule of thumb in those types of games are that all females avatars are male. (There's a reason for that)TheBigBlamTheoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11609008812183321787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-17401554666571128102012-09-08T14:34:37.409-06:002012-09-08T14:34:37.409-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.TheBigBlamTheoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11609008812183321787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-52938880612293717672012-09-08T10:15:09.989-06:002012-09-08T10:15:09.989-06:00A note: Men can experience sexism. No, it will not...A note: Men can experience sexism. No, it will not be the same brand of sexism, nor probably as harsh, that women face but there is still something there. The weird thing is how men tend to not "care" outwardly about their own biased presentations and treatment - such as media defining men as macho but with the all the brain function and experience of a 14 year old (man-children, man-caves, man-everything). Men "cannot" define themselves as anything "feminine", which is also pointed out in the study.<br /><br />Anyway, to the commentor who plays with a female avatar... You are lucky to not have seen or interpreted acts of other people as sexist toward you. Perhaps you just didn't feel it was out of place, or you were simply never targeted. That in no way invalidates how other women feel in the gaming community. Some women do not experience trouble while gaming, but many do. You did not, and that is great, but it doesn't mean that no one does. <br /><br />In regards to it being highly unlikely for a man to find your address and rape you, yes, it would probably not escalate that far. However, I have seen my fair share of women bloggers online who have been harassed day in and day out by people because they dared say anything negative about games or game culture. They have had calls they have had things delivered to their door they could have much more. I doubt most casual gamers are experiencing this but you don't know how bad things can get. Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418938692413450900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-47772446546451506422012-09-07T20:05:40.851-06:002012-09-07T20:05:40.851-06:00Wow, even here, so many comments from my fellow du...Wow, even here, so many comments from my fellow dudes mansplaining to women how they should feel about sexism. "I'm a man and I totes get to define sexism even though I as a man will NEVER EXPERIENCE SEXISM and women need to just stop being such whiny VICTIMS I am such an expert on what it is like to be a female gamer hurr hurr". <br /><br />And before anyone cries "misandry" or "reverse sexism" JUST STOP. STOP. http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/sexism-definition/ Us guys have absolutely no place in discussing what constitutes "sexism" because we will will never experience it---our job as men who want to be a good human beings is to LISTEN to women's lived experiences and trust that they know what it's like to experience sexist micro-aggressions. <br /><br />The OP says she received horrifying rape threats in response to simply posting a fucking survey. There. That's all the fucking evidence you need. Anthonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5166264252243602432.post-53364893280484471822012-09-07T16:52:38.169-06:002012-09-07T16:52:38.169-06:00Yeah, nothing sexist AT ALL about calling someone ...Yeah, nothing sexist AT ALL about calling someone a "little pussy ass bitch.". Perfect example you've provided, so thanks for your case in point. The slam is precisely targeting the feminine as weak, lesser, and the lowest of states. Either learn to see that for what it is--which is very sexist--or "man up" like I do and admit, "yeah, I completely use sexism in my insults.". Cause sometimes I do. But the ultimate respect I have for gamers is for those who are cunning, and strength in gaming and life isn't the ultimate characteristic, and a lot of other traits or combos of traits will trump that. Reasonable people know that. And if you are able to overcome my skill sets, I must just resort to calling you a little pussy ass bitch but I'd probably be much more creative than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com