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View submission: R/Askmen discusses getting swarmed by women
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.
Comment by butt-barnacles at 27/01/2025 at 23:09 UTC
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As someone who was a ‘female gamer in the 2000a’ there was a shit ton of direct hostility lol? If you’ve never received a rape threat or have actively been told to leave because of your gender in Barnes and Noble, then I’m going to go ahead and say it’s not comparable lol. Seeing sexy women in games was not even a blip on the radar of hostility in my experience.
Comment by RustedAxe88 at 27/01/2025 at 23:03 UTC
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Idk I'm a guy and I don't have that problem at Barnes & Noble at all.
Comment by No_Mathematician6866 at 27/01/2025 at 22:49 UTC
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Boys stopped reading as many books. I'm not sure why. But bookstores changed what they stock and who they market to because their audience demographics changed. Not the other way around.