“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.
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…
If someone needs to be promised sex to be a good person, it’s likely they’ll simply never be a good person.
And here I am reminiscing about THIS being our greatest problem in society.
Not the greatest perhaps, but a problem still.
Post structuralists in shambles
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 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.
They don’t struggle with women. Struggling implies making an effort. They’re just losers.
I have to wonder if the main reason for this is just embarassment. They like girls, they want to impress said girls. Sucking at the game won’t impress them. Especially if the girls also play it and don’t suck.
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”
The observations are a fact, the 2nd part is a possible explanation that you could call an opinion.
Is it possible the 'higher-skilled", again an opinion, players have a different common factor? Like maybe age.
Ok, but that doesn’t change it
It’s a study; I imagine they controlled for age and other factors if the article states the study “found”, not “suggested” or similar looser term. It’s not an opinion, but a result of a scientific process. Your dislike for term “gamer fact”, even if it’s a bit cringe, doesn’t change that.
