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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Guy chiming in. I use to go to small, monthly lan parties a lot. Every now and then a woman would show up and 4 or 5 of the average 10 total guys would make weird jokes about there being a female present. I don't think I ever saw the same woman twice.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Read it again. This self-proclaimed man uses 'women' to describe some people, and also uses 'females' for how some other people describe them.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago

I'm not mocking the commenter.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure your point. I used both "woman" and "female" in my comment. I used the term "female" specifically when I did to reinforce the idea that certain people in the group saw the women more as foreign objects than new people.

I don't hang out with those people and if you asked me if I stepped in to do anything about that weirdness, I wouldn't have because it would have been a loss cause. I hang out with better groups now a days.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not mocking you. I'm mocking the people you're talking about.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Wahmen and Femoids.

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's sad. At our LAN there were two women regularly. One lost interest in PC games and the other now comes with her friend. She's pretty good at Chivalry. What a bloodthirsty girl...

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

It's was weird. Growing up, I took the "girls don't play video games" attitude as self deprecating machismo. Finding out that, no, this was how many people, including many girls my age, though was... disappointing.