Misogyny is a skill issue

Can confirm: I had a programming management position in the early 2000s, and once had a dev screaming at me with his nose less than two inches from my own after I called him out for egregious project delays (I was a programmer, too). I asked him if he’d like to take it outside, but he declined. Exactly the same energy I’ve had from others as a girl gamer.

I’ve never seen that behaviour towards men in a professional setting, but some of these immature boys seem to think it’s okay to act that way towards women.

And that’s why I gave up on multiplayer games years ago. I play to have fun, not to be the dartboard for these children’s unresolved mommy issues when I’m not even getting paid for it.

e: hey downvoters, how about you reply with why you took issue with my comment. I’m honestly curious about what I said that you didn’t like. Was it that you’re manchildren who can only challenge people you perceive as lesser than yourselves, and that’s only women and children, or was it that I called you out in the first place? Please, let me know where on this porcelain doll I hurt you.

The absolute least you can do is to tell me how my words injure you so. Downvoting with no comment is a bitch move.

Insecurity is the skill issue of self-confidence.

Some folks just cannot control bad mood and act before they think.
Or they don't care anyway.

That's impressive. You don't trust gamers, but you have enough technical skills to send a text from a dishwasher.

Thank you Edel. I hope you had a great day at the fair and looking forward to meeting you on Christmas. Grampa died last night. LOL

It absolutely is. It's a pretty well established observation for example that the great ancient structures built by white people never have alien conspiracy theories associated with them unlike those in the rest of the world. For a more modern example, a huge part of the "those damn Chinese/Indians/Mexicans/etc are stealing our jobs" rethoric comes from hatred of the fact that people in those places are getting better at and even surpassing the West in skilled labour when in the minds of racists they're supposed to be backwards and primitive compared to white people. People of color and Indigenous peoples in high paying positions (who are already severely underrepresented in those positions) are also much more likely to receive hate compared to white people of the same rank and pay, where racists literally say things like "they don't deserve to be there" or "they probably faked their qualifications" when there is no evidence of that. They were also banned from attending universities for the longest time specifically to keep them uneducated and reinforce the notion that white people have superior intellect.

Non-human primates, but yes. Also, it's not restricted to male non-human primates and is also seen in females, especially in your various macaque and baboon species wherein female status is largely inherited from one's mother and sisters.

Well you've taken the first step to correct it :)

They started testing before the study came out. I don’t know video game history, but publishing takes a while

It's capitalism, where we're forced to compete instead of cooperate.

Did you notice that you implied men are people but women are females?

Firstly that's not what the study said and secondly yes we did, just assuming things that feel right is easy but not very useful.

To your added assumption I would guess that's actually wrong, the stereotype you describe of a shutin that plays games all day is likely to be far more competent than someone who works 9-5 and spends most evenings with their wife - going by the study the latter will be at the bottom of the table hurling insults at women while the greasy gamer is sitting at the top giving friendly advice and polite compliments to the women on good team.

Which is exactly why we DO need studies for things that it's easy to assume the answer to, this has highlighted an interesting insight that's worth building on and investigating further. Maybe rating players attitudes and looking at their steam account to approximate the amount of time they play games, we might find something unexpected like people who play that most games are the least toxic and people who play only once a week are very toxic - then we could look at reasons, maybe that use gaming as a stress realise but since they don't do it as much as they'd like they unleash their stress in other people, this might result in more awareness the importance of stress relief and the suggestion people find more time to game or our another study could look at differences in the behaviour of the casual gamers and identify what trends there are within that group that predict hostility - it might even be possible to implement features that benefit casual players and reduce their toxicity, game modes that help you rember the controls and skills for example if skill loss is related to toxicity for example.

Again let me say those are just example speculation and we don't know how true SVG of it would turn out to be, that's why more studies is a good thing.