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Harassment ‘of’ 10-17 year olds ‘by’ the game? My brother in Christ, 10-17 year olds ARE the harassment. As a 40+ gamer, I’m confident that we can drop harassment levels by 90 percent if those kids weren’t on it. Little sweaty shitheads are why I stopped playing multiplayer games.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. In my humble experience, the most disgusting (and/because inexcusable) shit comes from grown up guys who were 10-17 years old 15-20 years ago (and they never changed). Online gaming is a hostile environment for girls and women, and it's by far not only due to 10-17-year-olds.
Pretty hostile to us men and boys (and anyone who identifies otherwise) who dont need to be toxic to cover up fragility either
Interesting. From my observations (I'm male, so take this with a grain of salt), women and girls are generally given positive attention - which might be unwarranted in its own right, but I rarely see hostility to this group of gamers.
There is even a phenomenon of male gamers, especially among teens, to represent themselves as female to either just get more positive response in players or to actively abuse this for gaining social perks.
Then maybe you should do some research. Every female gamer I've talked to told about harassment. And, mind you, screaming "b*tch", demanding her going back to the kitchen, threats of rape are not the only forms of harassment.
Here are some examples for videos that depict a different experience than yours:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUFgOQmzXtY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=46ms4LAhdrE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=66eYfyYFQIs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdBHywFVEP8
I also recommend looking into the comments every now and then. They're usually either confirming the experience, relativize or being oughtright harassing, too.
Thanks for challenging me up on that with evidence.
Sad to know this does happen.