Surprise, surprise. A German study finds no link between gaming and sexism

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ollieba...een-gaming-and-sexist-attitudes/#37c23dfa21ad

A few days ago a German longitudinal study was published that explored the connection between gaming and sexist attitudes. The results broadly show that playing videogames doesn’t make people sexist.

The study was based around cultivation theory, which posits that long-term exposure to media content can affect our perception of the world around us.

So playing lots of videogames should affect people in some way. This study explored whether videogames modified sexist attitudes amongst its participants.

Imagine that. Video games don't make people more violent, and they don't make people sexist.

Sorry, Snarkeesian!!!

 

[Aella_]

The "makes people more violent" controversy makes sense to me.
But "to make men more sexist"? I can't imagine why someone might think that was the case.

 

[badbabysitter]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ollieba...een-gaming-and-sexist-attitudes/#37c23dfa21ad

Imagine that. Video games don't make people more violent, and they don't make people sexist.

Sorry, Snarkeesian!!!

Dear dumbass

Something can be sexist without encouraging it in others

 

[badbabysitter]

The "makes people more violent" controversy makes sense to me.
But "to make men more sexist"? I can't imagine why someone might think that was the case.

Nobody does

he's trying to diminish someone calling sexist depictions in video games wrong... but he's doing it by criticising her for an argument she never made

 

[lovecraft68]

The "makes people more violent" controversy makes sense to me.
But "to make men more sexist"? I can't imagine why someone might think that was the case.

Try being a woman on any online game where the players can communicate with each other. Picture how crude the men of the GB are and magnify it ten fold.

My daughters gets called a whore/slut/cunt skank two dozen times a day mixed in with several rape threats. Many by thirteen year old boys, won't they be a sterling addition to the MRA movement when they turn 18

 

[Sean Renaud]

But I don't think the games make us worse I think that a surprising number of men talk like that behind closed doors and that the online community is still effectivley behind closed doors. There is no consequence for it at all. And but it's the same for blacks and Jews.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Try being a woman on any online game where the players can communicate with each other. Picture how crude the men of the GB are and magnify it ten fold.

My daughters gets called a whore/slut/cunt skank two dozen times a day mixed in with several rape threats. Many by thirteen year old boys, won't they be a sterling addition to the MRA movement when they turn 18

Okay, now that behavior is sexist.

The TITS OR GTFO nonsense is not what Anita Sarkeesian was talking about

and ironically that is exactly what she should be talking about!!!!!

 

[Rachel_X]

Try being a woman on any online game where the players can communicate with each other. Picture how crude the men of the GB are and magnify it ten fold.

My daughters gets called a whore/slut/cunt skank two dozen times a day mixed in with several rape threats. Many by thirteen year old boys, won't they be a sterling addition to the MRA movement when they turn 18

As a (mostly) PC gamer, none of that has happened to me.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Okay, now that behavior is sexist.

The TITS OR GTFO nonsense is not what Anita Sarkeesian was talking about

and ironically that is exactly what she should be talking about!!!!!

Wait, she's never spoken on that? I find that hard to believe. The fact that she brings up a lot of other things doesn't make that not an issue.

As a (mostly) PC gamer, none of that has happened to me.

You've been incredibly blessed. My argument is that that's less sexist than various prison bitch jokes mutating over the years. I'm much LESS likely to make rape jokes to known/suspected female players. But believe you me I will tell you in graphic detail what happens when I get my rocket launcher. Oh and all the stuff that I'm gonna do to you mum, grandfather, llama, first teddy bear all on top of your sister's wedding dress. I'm also going to shove my hand up your ass and use you as a zombie puppet to eat your children.

I'm a warlock with tiger blud bcuz winning!

I try to minimize it because even though 4 years in the military I sat through every lynching and nigger joke that was funny all the way up until you heard some of them when they thought you weren't around and realized they were only half joking.

I think the only games where I don't see (in no particular order) women, blacks, jews and gays talked down about are games where you simply don't have time for trash talk no matter how much you might want to do it at any particular moment. Even then you'd shocked that people can type horrible things at you in the middle of Left 4 Dead and still manage to finish what they were doing.

 

[renard_ruse]

Just like those "studies" that used to show no connection between smoking and cancer.

 

[renard_ruse]

...I think the only games where I don't see (in no particular order) women, blacks, jews and gays talked down about are games where you simply don't have time for trash talk no matter how much you might want to do it at any particular moment. Even then you'd shocked that people can type horrible things at you in the middle of Left 4 Dead and still manage to finish what they were doing.

I have no idea about video games, never liked them, even as a kid, but I'm sure there are just as many if not more, negative comments about whites, men, heterosexuals, and especially conservative Republicans, as about any of the groups liberals have declared "socially oppressed."

The interesting thing about liberals is that they only see "hate" that fits their preconceived prejudices about who is victimized by society. I don't think its so much they deliberately ignore "hate" against groups they have preconceived prejudices as "not victimized," I think for the most part they are simply incapable of noticing it. Liberals are the most utterly closed minded people on earth.

You see the same thing on comment boards, such as on YouTube videos. There will be all sorts of horrible anti-white comments, but if there's one anti-non-white comment, a brigade of liberals has to immediately respond with anger and outrage. They don't even seem to notice the anti-white comments that permeate YouTube boards. Or don't care. Or both.

 

[badbabysitter]

Okay, now that behavior is sexist.

The TITS OR GTFO nonsense is not what Anita Sarkeesian was talking about

Nor was she correlating sexism in video games to sexism outside of it.. she was talking about sexism IN games;you know in the actual video games themselves

and ironically that is exactly what she should be talking about!!!!!

and she does.. she did before the UN, she did on the Colbert Report, and tonnes of other venues.. she just didnt discuss in her video series Tropes vs. Women because that wasnt the point of it in the first place

 

[badbabysitter]

I have no idea about video games,

yet you already have an opinion on them

Just like those "studies" that used to show no connection between smoking and cancer.

if you dont know anything about them, why are you doubting a study on them

never liked them, even as a kid, but I'm sure there are just as many if not more, negative comments about whites, men, heterosexuals, and especially conservative Republicans, as about any of the groups liberals have declared "socially oppressed."

since you dont know anything about them, how would any of that be true?

The interesting thing about liberals is that they only see "hate" that fits their preconceived prejudices about who is victimized by society. I don't think its so much they deliberately ignore "hate" against groups they have preconceived prejudices as "not victimized," I think for the most part they are simply incapable of noticing it. Liberals are the most utterly closed minded people on earth.

you admit to knowing nothing about the subject you're discussing, but it's the liberals fault?

 

[badbabysitter]

Try being a woman on any online game where the players can communicate with each other. Picture how crude the men of the GB are and magnify it ten fold.

My daughters gets called a whore/slut/cunt skank two dozen times a day mixed in with several rape threats. Many by thirteen year old boys, won't they be a sterling addition to the MRA movement when they turn 18

As a gamer my rule of thumb is if I'm playing a game online with people I dont know, I don't turn my mic on.

Most gamers are decent folks, but there's alway and I do mean always a few gamers in any game that think that racism, misogyny, and homophobia makes them interesting.

It was worse at the height of gamergate when even being a woman playing a game meant I was the immediate target of these guys. Minute I popped into any lobby the abuse would follow. And if I left they would follow me around.

" Cunt" was probably the nicest thing I was called in those days

 

[Sean Renaud]

I have no idea about video games, never liked them, even as a kid, but I'm sure there are just as many if not more, negative comments about whites, men, heterosexuals, and especially conservative Republicans, as about any of the groups liberals have declared "socially oppressed."

The interesting thing about liberals is that they only see "hate" that fits their preconceived prejudices about who is victimized by society. I don't think its so much they deliberately ignore "hate" against groups they have preconceived prejudices as "not victimized," I think for the most part they are simply incapable of noticing it. Liberals are the most utterly closed minded people on earth.

You see the same thing on comment boards, such as on YouTube videos. There will be all sorts of horrible anti-white comments, but if there's one anti-non-white comment, a brigade of liberals has to immediately respond with anger and outrage. They don't even seem to notice the anti-white comments that permeate YouTube boards. Or don't care. Or both.

You'd be dead wrong. Virtually no comments about any of those groups.

There is something to be said for being in charge lessening your victiminzation.

No, there generally are not on youtube. It's cute renard but give up.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Nor was she correlating sexism in video games to sexism outside of it.. she was talking about sexism IN games;you know in the actual video games themselves

Her rants about sexism IN games is bullshit. The United Nations also ejected her nonsense.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/...s-expresses-regret-over-cyberviolence-report/

 

[badbabysitter]

Her rants about sexism IN games is bullshit.

so there are no sexist depictions of women in games? none at all?

The United Nations also ejected her nonsense.

ummm that was the report.. which was released after she spoke

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/...s-expresses-regret-over-cyberviolence-report/

so this is the third time you've made claims about her in one thread... that turned out to not be based in reality...third time in a row to boot

as for the UN report, you might be shocked to find Sarkeesian, Wu, and Quiin were not pleased with it either

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/im-disappointed-zoe-quinn-speaks-out-on-un-cyberviolence-report


see?


you really should start researching people you're going to attack in the future.. might avoid being schooled like this again