All girl gamers have been there- that moment of unpleasant, uncomfortable actions from male gamers. They act as if we are a rare species that they can freely harass, taunt and pick-on with no consequence. As most online bullying has no consequence, neither does the actions of rude males towards female players. Over the years ladies have gotten much tougher with dealing with these criticisms and now find these everyday interactions more annoying than hurtful. There are hundreds of different ways male gamers offending girl gamers but which do the lovely ladies of the community find the most annoying?
5. Send Nude Pictures
One of the lesser common annoyances in gaming between males and females are nude pictures. The craze of males taking pictures of their private areas and sending them to every random female they met online started back when the Xbox 360 came out with its vision camera. Since then we can comfortably say the craze has died down but yet still poses as one of the top annoyances online.
One thing guys need to get straight when playing games, every girl you run into online most likely doesn’t think your all that and most likely doesn’t want to see what your packing. Girls join games to play games not to get sexually harassed with indecent exposure over the internet. Luckily the smart women out there that doesn’t want to view the photographs from random players they meet online can open a message and use common sense about what the image might be and simply ignore the message without opening the photo. We should also not fail to mention video chats… and please ladies dont join a game of late night Uno!
4. Call us unpleasant names just for being female
Name calling has been a resort for online players since online gaming got popular. This effect both genders to some extend but males tend to take it a step overboard when they are playing with a female player. Girl gamers tend to get the worse of the worse bad names and sometimes even made up stories to go along with their names. This trend commonly uses words such as “slut” and “whore” when a male is negatively confronting a female player.
The sad thing about this is that it is something that can actually hurt the ladies feelings. A male player can be playing a game with a female who is as nice as could be and be called names such as these which will make her feel bad about herself. Also when one male in a certain game decides to pick on a female in the game it is likely that the other males in the game will begin to taunt as well. Girls are commonly ganged up against and constantly being out numbered can really get on our nerves; hence the reason a lot of girl gamers travel in groups.
3. Think they know what we look like
When guys see a girl online the first thing they do is paint a picture of how they imagine her looking. This can get annoying in two different ways. One way is when the guy is harassing us and calling us ugly or fat while the other ways is the male is automatically thinking we are sexy. It is very annoying when someone is speaking of your appearance when they can’t see you because they really have no clue what you look like.
It is hurtful to anyone when they are called ugly, more annoying when they have no clue but it is also equally as annoying when a random person assumes you’re a sex goddess. Attitudes like this provoke taunting behavior and an all-around unpleasant game. It is distracting to the girls who are involved in the assumption and in most cases the offender will not drop it.
2. Assume we suck
Before the game starts and before there is proof of the skill level of any gamer in that game male’s players tend to automatically think a female player sucks at the game. This is literally maddening because girls are picked on just for being a girl despite the possibility that she is actually good at the game. Girls have every capability of being just as good if not better at any game then guys do and yet male’s hang on to the last hope that he can bet girls at video games.
When it is looked at as a whole gender plays nearly no role in the skill level of any player. No matter the statistic or which gender you are in favor of it is just plain ignorant to believe that a guy is better than any girl just because he is a guy or vice versa. It is dependent on the player and how much time they send playing the game not about whether you were born male or female.
1. Overly try to get our attention
The most annoying thing a guy can do to a girl in an online game is overly try to get her attention. Before anything is said by either player the male takes note of the female’s gamertag of ID and goes absolutely crazy. This is the guy that cannot keep his composure and that repeats himself over and over again in hopes of getting some kind of response from the girl. He is most likely squealing saying somthing like “It’s a girl”, “Did you know there is a girl in this game” or saying her gamertag or ID multiple times.
Even if the girl does not respond to the menace he continues trying his hardest to get her attention for the entire game. The girl can do her best to ignore him but that won’t stop this guy from sending her friend requests and messages after the game. These are the guys girl gamers try to avoid at all cost, the guys that won’t get a spot on the ladies friends list and the ultimate annoyance for girls in gaming.
I sympathise and agree with the exception of no 2. I play with and have played against quite a few girl gamers and the vast majority of them (90%) aren’t skilled online. Sorry.
yep, agree completely 9/10 girl gamers suck that’s not my opinion that’s a fact that comes through observation from all those years (12) I play online games, sometime once in a blue moon u might find a true skilled girl but that’s very rare.
That is true. However the same thing also applies to male gamers. Most gamers male or female are not skilled. You may see more male professional gamers, but this is most likely due to female professionals not be considered socially acceptable yet.
” “Did you know there is a girl in this game” or saying her gamertag or ID multiple times.”
lolz!
Damn author is hot :p
I totally disagree (except for the nude pics part. Guess what. Yeah it happens to females but just as much as it does males. Your not being singled out. Every other douche bag with a mic is like that to everyone. Its just something you gotta live with.
Even though I am male, I can relate to this plight. (There is no way to say this without sounding pretentious, oh well). I play games a lot and am more skilled that 99% of the people I meet online. When people take note of either of these aspects they usually assume I am fat and have either no job or a dead end job. When it comes down to it though, someone who makes assumptions like this is not worth caring about.
You could cut out most of those if they saw your picture. But then problems 1 and 5 would pick up 100 fold.
Wow a lot of comments… a lot more that never saw the light of day because they can’t accept the fact that a girl has the power of speech… the saddest thing is that out of all the comments that are here (as well as the deleted trolling rude ones) and NOT ONE COMMENT FROM A FEMALE… I wonder what kind of comment another girl gamer would leave.
On a side note, to the people that did not get to see their comment here… none of my core staff will be belittled here by comments, this is not fucking youtube. If you want to leave a negative comment it better be constructive… or at least make sense.
lol looks like Heather made a lot of 12 year olds mad on this post!
Poor kids…. http://www.facebook.com/GamersBlissLive/posts/266186593496202?notif_t=share_comment
Sad thing is… Like you said, girl gamers travel in packs, and then If you lose they hOld the U GOT BEAT BY A BUNCH OF GIRLS card over you
I don’t get abuse because I mute everyone lol. I have had friend requests from dudes but never have been sent anything rude, had any bad comments or flirty messages at all from them. But I’m 28, my friends on xbox live are around the same age so maybe it’s just maturity. The new generation of “gamers” is different.
1 major thing girl gamers do to annoy male gamers
Immediately announce they’re female as soon as any game starts.
Lol, they must be very manly if they have to announce that they’re female when the game starts. It would personally annoy me, as a female if I went online and some girl announced she was a girl. I’d be like… No fucking shit sherlock…
It’s simple. If it’s a problem, mute everyone once you get into a lobby. Don’t want to do that? Either ignore it or talk shit back. It’s just annoying when I don’t talk shit to someone when I find out they’re a guy, why do it when you find out i’m a girl? It’s nice whooping their ass in a shooter game after they’ve talked shit though. Best comeback to an annoying fuckwad, ask about their K/D after you win
I find it hilarious when guys find out youre a female. Theyll either shut up for a minute, or theyll try to pick on you, or theyll start white-knighting. Its funny as hell. I usually dont get offended if they call me “cunt”, “whore”, or “bitch” when I kill their fatasses, but when they start making hurtful conversations I get upset. I guess I do deserve some shit, tho…I do troll / annoy people on purpose :/ Either way…Muffins are good.