If you hate women, you might be bad at video games.

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As they watched the games play out and tracked the comments that players made to each other, the researchers observed that — no matter their skill level, or how the game went — men tended to be pretty cordial to each other. Male players who were good at the game also tended to pay compliments to other male and female players.

Some male players, however — the ones who were less-skilled at the game, and performing worse relative their peers — made frequent, nasty comments to the female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-inter…ew-study-finds/

This is unfortunate for me, because I'm notoriously bad at video games. Which, I suppose, means I have to start treating women badly.

@Sardonic Pickle, you've got a smelly cunt.

The only game where I regularly play online with strangers is Chivalry, which has a pretty decent community. Though it doesn't have voice chat the way a lot of other games do. And I guess there's WoW. I do enjoy playing games with other people, but I much prefer to play with people I know.

As to those who harass women...yeah. Fuckin losers. But we all already knew that, right?

Of course, there's a vast gulf of difference between good natured trash talk, and the kind of bilious harassment that we often directed towards women online. It's a question, I think, of whether the words come from a place of anger, or from a feeling of competition.

As to the study, the way I understand it is this:

-There is a room full of men, and a cake.
-Everybody in the room gets a piece of cake depending on how good they are at video games. The winners get big pieces, the losers get small pieces.
-Some women come into the room.
-The women also get pieces of cake depending on how good they are at video games.
-The men who were winning don't care. They're still in the upper-half of video game players, so they still get good sized pieces of cake.
-The men who were losing get angry. They're still losing, and now the piece of cake they're getting is really really small!
-The loser men hate the women for taking all of the cake.
-Except the cake was never real in the first place.
-But the losers are still mad about it.

I don't really follow you there.

What's the most sexist remark you've ever heard in your life? The title of the thread?

Maybe LoL siphoned off the shittier players. =P

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Dammit, beat me to it. I'm always too slow.

I mean, isn't everyone who makes that joke in 2015 a little slow?
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Well, if this is what we're doing. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

The frustrating thing is that I think there's a legitimate discussion to be had about cultural appropriation of the 'nerd community.' But the discussion got all fucked up because a bunch of losers decided to make the discussion about women, rather than about their frustration with their niche being absorbed by mainstream culture.

Of course, even the legitimate discussion seems a little frivolous to me. An academic curiosity, but not a real harm to anyone.