• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    5 天前

    My daughter wanted to wear my headset when I was playing battlefield once. It was so funny listening to those losers rage because they Were getting stomped by a 5 yr old girl. Now days she still puts it on from time to time and it’s still hilarious.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    6 天前

    I have noticed that all of these misogynists are incredibly insecure alpha-pretending males. Can’t imagine how tiring this constant fear must be.

  • Inf_V@kbin.earth
    871·
    6 天前

    “but behaved more submissively towards players with a male voice” I want to know what they mean by submissive

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    77·
    6 天前

    Obligatory footnote: EvoPsych is mostly bunk, deeply intertwined with eugenics and riddled with homophobia, sexism and rape apologia.

    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      6 天前

      Traditionally, yes, but I do want to note that modern takes use it to also argue for cooperation, since working with with others is good for survival and passing on genes. They also are the first to tell people how bunk the alpha male crap is, and the fact a lone wolf is a dead wolf.

      • GalacticHero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        24 小时前

        Evolutionary psychology. I think there’s real research in the field, but it’s drowned out by charlatans who invoke its name to lend credence to their made-up bullshit without the burden of scientific rigour.

      • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        637·
        6 天前

        So no citations & only a mere opinion ? So it’s clear as day then. It’s a misandric hit-piece (off course it’s from BBC)

        • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.ukEnglish
          91·
          5 天前

          WTF? Go and spend a day in the big wide world.

          In the 90s I watched something and there was a woman that was becoming a fairly competent go cart racer, she quit cause the men she was competing against couldn’t stand “losing to a girl” and got quite nasty about. This won’t be a credible source though, will it?

          • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
            110·
            5 天前

            Of course not. Especially with supportive people like you

            Since we are talking about the real world; did you deliberately omit the fact that men playing video-games are called pathetic & deadbeat losers regardless of whether they’re champions or not ?

              • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                5 天前

                Men get shat on as well but, I guess we are n9t going to address that huh, if you’re going to virtue-signal as an Egalitarian, then act the part

                & ah the incel slur, what are you ?? A sex-obsessed creep ?

                Should I be worried about your mental well-being ?

                • Kuranashi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  4 天前

                  Take your mask off and see what happens, incel. It’s always the same fucking formula, go and whine about your own tiny little insecurities every single time anything about women’s experience is highlighted.

                  You’d find something between your ribs irl real quick if you took off your mask around the people in your life and they found out how incapable you are of even reading about half the population of the Earth’s perspective without self inserting your pathetic insecurities.

            • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              5 天前

              Just seen your edit. Before I answer this question, are you seriously asking to be judged fairly after judging others unfairly?

              • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
                15·
                5 天前

                Why should one need an audience for that claim, when the evidence is right there on the internet & IRL

  • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    5 天前

    I remember the last time I got messaged by some misogynist dipshit, way back in Halo 5, blaming me for losing the game. …When he was the worst performing player in the team. I just stared at the post game report and wondered how the heck the dude even managed to get a ranking as low as he did.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 天前

      How it feels to play as Killer in Dead By Daylight, win, and then the loser Survivors tell you in the end game chat to “get better” and that “you are trash at the game.”

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    5 天前

    This is part of why confidence is attractive.

    It isn’t that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it’s that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      6 天前

      this literally has nothing to do with the game itself. it’s about behavior towards other people, which is intently political.

      also video games are art which makes them political as well.

      the fact that you kneejerked into this reaction feels super insecure and reactionary.

      • Jakob Fel@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        226·
        4 天前

        More like I’m just sick of people hijacking my favorite art form to express political/social issues or sexual fetishes, both of which are becoming too common. It’s exactly why I’ve grown more and more in favor of retro gaming, back when neither of those expressions were anything but a fringe group of miserable individuals and weirdos that most gamers ignored. Not going to argue further, I’ve spoken my piece.

        • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          172·
          6 天前

          I’m glad, because you’re talking nonsense.

          what you’re referring to is a time when you were a kid and didn’t realize the politics. now you’re aware of it and are acting like it’s new. this is just illiteracy.

          • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
            91·
            5 天前

            Ugh. Thank you, I was just about to say it myself. There’s been politics in games for forever. Even the simplest shit like, “environmental destruction bad, so Sonic fight Eggman”

            People are just too dumb to realize that they were kids back then…

            • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              51·
              5 天前

              even mechanics can be unintentionally political. there was a really cool errant signal video years ago talking about civilization games. it was mostly about what the games idea of a “civilization” is and how the win conditions reinforced the idea that one civilization has to be the superior one to rule them all…

              but also these ideas were further reinforced by the way barbarians were depicted. that word already has baggage but the interesting thing is that in civ4 they share a banner with wildlife. like, they’re almost like animals or natural disasters and not people at all.

              what conservatives don’t understand is that you can think about things like this and acknowledge what they mean and still enjoy the game and or understand why these choices were made. they’re not necessarily political choices as much as they’re mechanical, but that doesn’t mean we can’t think about what mechanical choices might mean to the player, or what messages they send. if video games are art, they can—and I would say must—be critiqued.

              fear of change is at the core of conservatism, and that drives their utter aversion to introspection, and also to criticism of things and people they like. and vice versa, they can’t bring themselves to appreciate any part of anything they don’t like. if they like a person they can do no wrong. if they like a game it must be perfect. if they dislike a song it’s the harbinger of the fall of civilization (ooh look at me bringing it full circle).

              in a world of absolutes, there can be no discussion. don’t ask me to think about things please. leave your thoughts and opinions out of my fun time, lest my views get challenged. this is what’s funny about the likes of ben shapiro pretending that they have the facts while liberals are too emotional. their entire world view is based on their feels, and their arguments follow those as justification.

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          311·
          6 天前

          “My position is so tenuous yet so important to my identity that I will not tolerate the slightest challenge.”

          Alternatively, “That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick, no frou-frou symbolism. Just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”

          Psychonauts is about trauma. Fallout is anti-war. FFVII is environmentalist. Samus as a woman was an intentionally subversive choice. Video games have had socual commentary for as long as it’s been able to be expressed.

          • wieson@feddit.orgEnglish
            61·
            6 天前

            Tetris is about trying to fit into a society, that wants to destroy you.

            Space invader is about uniting all of earth’s peoples against a common challenge.

            Pong is about the heated but honest exchange of ideas that makes a democracy stronger.

            (/jk I agree with you)

            • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              5 天前

              if you think about it, in tetris once you fit perfectly you get destroyed. but if you don’t, you stand and eventually help each other get to the top. maybe it’s a caution against conformity.

          • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            6 天前

            I’ve heard this before but “a man who hates an animal” makes me laugh so hard

  • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    671·
    6 天前

    Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.

    • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 天前

      More likely higher ranked players finally figured out that keeping harmony within your team does wonders for your chance at winning. The amount of infighting I’ve had to stop just to save my elo is insane, why would i start something just because of someone’s gender.

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      6 天前

      I don’t think that’s right, I’m terrible at games but I still respect women (enough to spare them from interacting with me whenever possible. Same goes for all people really)