alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days agoWomen experience guilt, shame and exclusion in gaming culture, study findswww.stir.ac.ukexternal-linkmessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down118
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minus-squarepetrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·4 days agoSo, to participate in modern gaming, women should play games from 40 years ago?
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down21·4 days agoOr just single player games in general. If Super Mario is fine (main “story” being that a princess gets abducted by a male villain and rescued by a man), there really aren’t that many games that are significantly worse.
minus-squarepetrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·4 days agoSo, again, to participate in modern gaming, women should play only single-player games. Like, to avoid men?
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·4 days agoMultiplayer with randos is to be avoided in general IMO.
minus-squareDebatableRaccoon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI wasn’t on board until this statement but this is exactly why I fell off any amount of competitive games very quickly.
So, to participate in modern gaming, women should play games from 40 years ago?
Or just single player games in general. If Super Mario is fine (main “story” being that a princess gets abducted by a male villain and rescued by a man), there really aren’t that many games that are significantly worse.
So, again, to participate in modern gaming, women should play only single-player games. Like, to avoid men?
Multiplayer with randos is to be avoided in general IMO.
I wasn’t on board until this statement but this is exactly why I fell off any amount of competitive games very quickly.