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Women experience guilt, shame and exclusion in gaming culture, study finds (www.stir.ac.uk)
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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

How the fuck are they getting shamed and excluded in mobile games?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We need equality in the gaming space.

We should shame everyone who plays games on phones equally.

[–] Wildmimic@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably by the common mindset that mobile games don't really count for gaming clout.

If i compare what crap games i've played on my PC sometimes to mobile games, i feel that such boundaries are pretty arbitrary. There are some mobile games that can keep up with PC gaming too - Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Hoplite come to mind.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago

I feel like Puzzle Quest and Gyromancer are "real" games, but somehow Bejeweled and Candy Crush are silly things for little girls and bored housewives. Hell, I think Progress Quest would be considered more legitimate to the kinds of people with this mindset, and that's not even a game.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 days ago

Self-inflicted wound.

She plays Candy Crush and feels that calling herself a "gamer" for it amounts to stolen valor.

Maybe she's right, maybe she isn't. I'm a woodworker, and I'd built several bookshelves, tables, shop fixtures and cutting boards before I felt comfortable wearing the rank. I would insist I was an amateur or a beginner. It was my little porch table that is made with genuine mortise and tenons that I felt I'd earned it.

And that's without the gender politics of it. Here I'm a man doing traditionally masculine things. I'm not a man taking up knitting or a woman taking up gaming.