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Well with your example people saying that gaming being a male dominated hobby is bad is because of how toxic they can get. So many “gamers” complain about women in games and calling them woke and throwing temper tantrums.
Now I’m not gonna say I know a lot about reading community circles but I would bet money on that they aren’t even close to how bad gaming communities can get.
Comment by Sea_Lingonberry_4720 at 27/01/2025 at 22:31 UTC
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They aren’t. But as I explained in another comment, when I walk into a Barnes and noble today, it makes me feel like I could relate to a female gamer in the 2000s seeing all those cover arts of sexy women in bikinis, and all the hyper violent edgy for edgys sake games, and the ads about how “John Romero will make you his bitch”, or “if you don’t play duke nukem you like men”. No direct hostility but it definitely feels like you’re an interloper who’s not meant to be here because everything is so extremely catered to the other gender.