PC Gaming

12238 readers

549 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

Be Respectful.
No Spam or Porn.
No Advertising.
No Memes.
No Tech Support.
No questions about buying/building computers.
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca

UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com

193

Women experience guilt, shame and exclusion in gaming culture, study finds (www.stir.ac.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

103 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 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.