Gaming Culture and gender

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Interestingly enough they have a sub-forum titled "The Kitchen"...

Was there a thread "How to fit EVERYTHING in your purse"?

I just helped a patron, her purse had EVERYTHING! Idk how women fit all of em in the purse?!?!?!

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Was there a thread "How to fit EVERYTHING in your purse"?

I just helped a patron, her purse had EVERYTHING! Idk how women fit all of em in the purse?!?!?!

I have my phone.. wallet.. a knife and some pens in my purse/satchel.

lol

[Hanakuso]

Originally Posted by Longhorn248

I think it's funny when guys on a forum that's geared towards men complain about or question why there aren't more girls around. Men and women are biologically different and have different interests that aren't always going to coincide. I highly doubt on a purse forum or cosmetics forum there are threads asking, "why aren't there more guys here?" I think it's just one of those things that people need to accept and quit wondering about.

Granted I will agree that male dominated forums usually aren't the best when it comes to new members, but I doubt a more cordial attitude is going to magically shift the demographics of a place like this.

Edit: I know I didn't really respond to the first part of the OP. IMO the guy was being a d-bag, and you can find those just about anywhere, not just in the gaming or car scene.

IMO it's way more about gender then sex. It's been ingrained into us since we've been born what we should do and have interest in. Example: Give a girl a cooking set while you give the boy a toy gun

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Giccin

I have my phone.. wallet.. a knife and some pens in my purse/satchel.

lol

This lady pulled out 4 DVD's, 5 cd's, 4 hard cover books to check out & water bottle & snack for her kids, huge wallet out of tiny purse... That's was crazy to see

[Hanakuso]

Originally Posted by Giccin

Best way to avoid this?

Don't play on the US servers. Most US players are generally the biggest assholes in the gaming community.

Haha I noticed this as well. I played in Japanese servers in CS 1.6 and the chatting is completely different and almost shocking how polite they are.

[Cipher53]

Originally Posted by Allch Chcar

You might as well add that the average male must have a v8 or a turbo to even consider a car a 'sports car.'

You say that, but most of the car enthusiast friends that I have don't consider a car "cool" or "sporty" until the cylinder count under the hood is at least 8, and most of the cars that they really like have (at least one) turbocharger or supercharger.

Hence why I've come to the point of accepting what they're interested in, and just keeping my opinion of an awesome car to myself unless somebody asks for it. (For reference, one of them saw my computer desktop and asked me if it was a, AND I DO QUOTE DIRECTLY, "Sports Prius".... )

But sadly most of what I have to say about the OP of the thread has already been said, so I'm out on that note..

[Allch Chcar]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Interestingly enough they have a sub-forum titled "The Kitchen"...

Wait what?

...they have multiple threads dedicated to what are you eating/cooking etc. Even one only about nut butters(peanut butter).

Originally Posted by Hanakuso

Haha I noticed this as well. I played in Japanese servers in CS 1.6 and the chatting is completely different and almost shocking how polite they are.

One of the reasons I have such a thick skin is playing CS, US servers can be brutal. I actually find it funny now but it was more annoying way back when.

Originally Posted by Giccin

I have my phone.. wallet.. a knife and some pens in my purse/satchel.

lol

I carry so much crap in my pockets I could get a purse/handbag. I carry my wallet, a pocket knife, a key ring with a multitool and LED light, pens, cell phone, and occasionally a small flashlight.

Originally Posted by Hanakuso

IMO it's way more about gender then sex. It's been ingrained into us since we've been born what we should do and have interest in. Example: Give a girl a cooking set while you give the boy a toy gun

A reasonable response but things like this are changing. Games have become more gender neutral over the years even though there are still a lot of male dominated hard core games. Cars are one of those kinds of things I guess. I thought it was an interesting topic anyway.

Originally Posted by Cipher53

You say that, but most of the car enthusiast friends that I have don't consider a car "cool" or "sporty" until the cylinder count under the hood is at least 8, and most of the cars that they really like have (at least one) turbocharger or supercharger.

Hence why I've come to the point of accepting what they're interested in, and just keeping my opinion of an awesome car to myself unless somebody asks for it. (For reference, one of them saw my computer desktop and asked me if it was a, AND I DO QUOTE DIRECTLY, "Sports Prius".... )

But sadly most of what I have to say about the OP of the thread has already been said, so I'm out on that note..

Yeah, thanks for chiming in.

[SVTSHC]

Originally Posted by Allch Chcar

I carry so much crap in my pockets I could get a purse/handbag. I carry my wallet, a pocket knife, a key ring with a multitool and LED light, pens, cell phone, and occasionally a small flashlight.

Same lol, Pocket knife, Wallet, Cell phone, Chapstick, Key ring that would put a janitor to shame, and a swiss army (I know, who carries a pocket knife AND a swiss army. One is for protection, the likes of which I hope to never have to use; the other is a utility tool).

When I can, I walk with a bookbag

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Allch Chcar

I carry so much crap in my pockets I could get a purse/handbag. I carry my wallet, a pocket knife, a key ring with a multitool and LED light, pens, cell phone, and occasionally a small flashlight.

Originally Posted by SVTSHC

Same lol, Pocket knife, Wallet, Cell phone, Chapstick, Key ring that would put a janitor to shame, and a swiss army (I know, who carries a pocket knife AND a swiss army. One is for protection, the likes of which I hope to never have to use; the other is a utility tool).

When I can, I walk with a bookbag

Dayum, I thought I carried a lot...
I carry a mini pocket knife (2.5", I use this only for the mini scissors), a regular pocket knife (3.5", I don't actually ever use this...), keys, phone, wallet, and I feel like that's a lot already.

More on topic, it's natural to have male dominated and female dominated things. I don't even think it's culture, there are just things that males or females have an affinity for...
For example, math is like 90% guys, and engineering is probably close or even worse. Psych I hear is mostly girls.

[R_E_L]

a lot of it has to do with the social pressures we place on each other, anyone who dares go against them get's hammered back into place.

i feel bad for many women tbh, because so many online communities make it almost impossible to break into without immediately being singled out just based on sex. so many of these places resemble a men's locker room more than anything else.

in real life it's not much different, if she's into cars, sports or anything outside of fashion and gossip and isn't smoking hot she's considered butch/undesirable/trying too hard by both sides.

they just can't win. their interests are frowned upon and their opinions seen as worthless, so instead they just avoid communities/lurk instead of participating/registering.

[M-17]

Originally Posted by Longhorn248

It wouldn't be the first time. The only reason I knew about the purse forum is because it was brought up on a different car forum I'm on

You mean you're cheating on FT86.

Originally Posted by S2kphile

Aye, I like purses especially if they are carrying certain things in them.

I have no idea what you are talking about man, but I'll leave that wink to yourself.

Oh and do you know where that milk carton character is from?

[Longhorn248]

Originally Posted by M-17

You mean you're cheating on FT86.



I have no idea what you are talking about man, but I'll leave that wink to yourself.

Oh and do you know where that milk carton character is from?

If we're basing it on membership time and post count ft86club is definitely the mistress in this example.

[Allch Chcar]

There's no such thing as monogamy in forum memberships. I'm on at least 10 car forums, probably still post on 2-3 these days.

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Dayum, I thought I carried a lot...
I carry a mini pocket knife (2.5", I use this only for the mini scissors), a regular pocket knife (3.5", I don't actually ever use this...), keys, phone, wallet, and I feel like that's a lot already.

More on topic, it's natural to have male dominated and female dominated things. I don't even think it's culture, there are just things that males or females have an affinity for...
For example, math is like 90% guys, and engineering is probably close or even worse. Psych I hear is mostly girls.

I can understand genders having more affinity to certain things. But I think you'll find the majority of these are from gender specific influences more so than natural born affinity. People aren't just born to be engineers they're subtly influenced over time.

I looked it up and Women are 24% of Scientists and Engineers using 10 year old data.

A fun fact that showed up in my polisci class was that 10% of US Engineers are asian while asians are 5% of the population.

Originally Posted by R_E_L

a lot of it has to do with the social pressures we place on each other, anyone who dares go against them get's hammered back into place.

i feel bad for many women tbh, because so many online communities make it almost impossible to break into without immediately being singled out just based on sex. so many of these places resemble a men's locker room more than anything else.

in real life it's not much different, if she's into cars, sports or anything outside of fashion and gossip and isn't smoking hot she's considered butch/undesirable/trying too hard by both sides.

they just can't win. their interests are frowned upon and their opinions seen as worthless, so instead they just avoid communities/lurk instead of participating/registering.

That make sense. It's a bit ironic that the first two comments I got were basically, "that's life, deal with it."

[S2kphile]

Originally Posted by M-17

Oh and do you know where that milk carton character is from?

Blur Coffee & TV

[M-17]

Originally Posted by S2kphile

Blur Coffee & TV

Yeah I just remembered it the other day and realized that's where that milk carton dude came from, such a weird video though.

Good shit.

[Giccin]

Because GW2 rumored 1st tournament grand prize is 1 million.

[Calidrifter]

Op posts rape culture article and proceeds to call writer a man...

http://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/about/

[LazyZed]

The aus300zx forum and community are pretty good with female members and really encourage them. Just a few bad eggs at car cruises that can go a bit far, but that is a problem with the individual rather than the forum as a whole.

I have seen interesting things whilst playing online with women, particularly L4D2. The men in the group so out of their way to help out the female team members on either side, but that changes if she is whining down the mic

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by LazyZed

The aus300zx forum and community are pretty good with female members and really encourage them. Just a few bad eggs at car cruises that can go a bit far, but that is a problem with the individual rather than the forum as a whole.

I have seen interesting things whilst playing online with women, particularly L4D2. The men in the group so out of their way to help out the female team members on either side, but that changes if she is whining down the mic

Fk whining. Lol.

"RUSH THE MAP. STOP LOOKING FOR SHIT. I GOT THE WITCH. YOU CAN'T CROWN HER!"

Yea. :l Lol I am... the total opposite of many female gamers. Play 2 win. Socializing with men over the game is lame for me. I hate females who do the "<3" or call someone sweetie. Pisses me off to no end. I also feel bad for men who fall for that trap. Bunch of towls. Lol


I haven't played L4D2 in awhile. Care for a game? :P Rusty skills are rusty!

[Bonburner]

td;dr QQ MOAR
is my respons

trolol

[LazyZed]

Giccin: I haven't played L4D2 in a little bit either, manily cos I only have mobile broadband and in Australia. Third world countries have better internet than us

[Palmy]

Whats with all the people bragging about carrying knives in this thread?
Can't back yourself without a knife?
Seems cowardly.