I really didn’t appreciate how bad it was, until I witnessed my wife being subjected to this shit.

One time I was playing Star Trek: Bridge Crew with a couple randos. We’d been playing for at least half an hour, and they seemed like nice guys. My wife had just finished watching all of TNG, and she excitedly asked if she could try playing for a round.

The moment my wife’s voice hit the mic, these two neckbeards turned into complete pieces of shit, and started right in on harassing her and talking down. I watched her face sink. She took off the vr headset, and hasn’t touched it since. I don’t think she’s even watched Star Trek since, it was such a sour experience.

And these were the stereotypical ‘I struggle with women’ type of neckbeards. No shit. Maybe if you didn’t treat them as subhuman, one of them might speak to you.

I remember an E-Game tournament and the last round was a male player vs a female player.

The guy twitted he was going to r*** her [in the game].

Later he defended himself that r*** word is commonly used by online [male] players and people were too serious.

He was disqualified instantly

That's online gamer toxic masculinity.

I used to hate when a woman would join our party, because suddenly all the men would be trying to knock eachother down and act up to impress her, and whatever happy little unity we had would crumble quickly.

No fault of the woman's, she just wants to play the game like the rest of us, but as soon as I hear a girls voice I groan inside and "oh here we fucking go"

Misogyny, not unlike racism or other forms of bigotry are all forms of insecurity.

I think a lot of people have noticed this but it's surprising how many people haven't.

It seems pretty obvious. It's a big red flag. Bigots try to hurt others to feel superior. And they always go after the person in the vicinity that they think will give them the least challenge.

This is why it's up to the rest of us to call them out. Make it so they fear the retribution from harassing others.

"Misogyny is a skill issue".

Women-hating PUAs/incels explained succinctly! But when the average man in your community has that 'skill issue', it becomes a cultural problem.

Try working in social services.

All female-dominated services and agencies, the hatred against men is appalling.

The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

In short, all systems of power, regardless of the identity of the people who make up those systems, reject ANYTHING that disrupts it.

The funny thing is, that's also why we have separate male-female sports categories in all of sports. Back then it was not only easier for women to compete against men due to less advanced nutrition and sports science, but also men placing behind women were also furious, and men regularly got beaten in chess, etc.

"Misogyny is a skill issue?".

👨‍🚀 🔫👨‍🚀 "Always has been."

I mean any women knows this.

I read a book a while back that was called a "guide to mating" or something that was actually pretty decent and included some very objectively anthropological / sociological explanations of why if you're ugly you better at least be a good person. "Well why should I have you be nice if the hot guys don't?" Look dude do you wanna fuck or not? Weird that some guys will only hear that from another man but...

And here I am reminiscing about THIS being our greatest problem in society.

Who knew it is all about asserting dominance. There is a study which showed monkeys with small penises howl the loudest. Not too dissimilar from humans who loves to overcompensate.

edit: wording

Damn, bro got skill checked, got no diffed, got glizzied on, got slam dunked, misogyny: 0 everyone else: 1

this is sad

Opinion. Not a "gamer fact". Screen shot this comment and repost it somewhere else to add to the social-mediacepion. Is it possible the 'higher-skilled", again an opinion, players have a different common factor? Like maybe age. Maybe people who suck at games just talk more shit because they suck. Sure thing with the "gamer fact"