Reduced to incoherent rage

[drwex]

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/107/1079073p1.html

How to stereotype guys, cheapen women, and really just ladle on the sexist bullshit as thick as you can.

Oh, and for the record? The women I game with would KICK THEIR ASSES.

*rarghincoherentrage*

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So now that I'm a little calmer

[drwex]

I have no objection to sex work. The sex workers I know (and I think the ones you know) are up front about what they're doing. The coy "oh, we're playing GAMES nudgenudgewinkwink" is part of what irks me.

That this targets a community already burdened by stereotypes bothers me more. First, there's the stereotype that all gamers are males (wrong) who can't get a date (wrong). Second, there's the stereotype that women don't game (wrong) or only do so in order to get relationships with guys (wrong).

Finally, the entire thing seems like such a huge insult to my female gamer friends (not least of all my wife) that I take personal offense. It feels like someone saying "oh, they're not REAL gamers, they're just whores."

So, y'know, incoherent rage.