Link to the paper anywhere? (Can't tell if I'm just not seeing it.)
I didn't see it anywhere either. Found it here http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Video game study finds losers more likely to harass women
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#12"The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers." What in this study suggested that? The base study is very interesting, but basically seems to say that losers seek to make someone else feel bad so they look for an easy and lower status target. Seems like it's not the video games as…
Haven't you heard? People that play videogames are evil misogynists and sexism doesn't exist elsewhere.
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#13Link to the paper anywhere? (Can't tell if I'm just not seeing it.)
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#14"The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers." What in this study suggested that? The base study is very interesting, but basically seems to say that losers seek to make someone else feel bad so they look for an easy and lower status target. Seems like it's not the video games as…
Haven't you heard? People that play videogames are evil misogynists and sexism doesn't exist elsewhere.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting:
> The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.
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#15Men have a fear of other men, so they're much less likely to insult them. Throughout our evolution, getting angry and insulting men is more likely to get a male killed. Because men naturally don't fear women they're more likely to express anger and blame on them. "But they're on Xbox live" you say. The evolutionary response is ingrained permanently.
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#16How about a rule title change to "poorly performing video gamers more likely to harass women". Not only is the title inaccurate and click baity, but as someone who was physically bullied in school for being an actual loser, it triggers me.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haven't you heard? People that play videogames are evil misogynists and sexism doesn't exist elsewhere.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting: > The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.
Why did you feel the need to reiterate the exact quote that the grandparent post quoted?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haven't you heard? People that play videogames are evil misogynists and sexism doesn't exist elsewhere.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting: > The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.
I got knee jerk downvoted for that so hard I have whiplash. I rtfa, it ignores anything else and pretends gamers exist in a vacuum.
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#19How about a rule title change to "poorly performing video gamers more likely to harass women". Not only is the title inaccurate and click baity, but as someone who was physically bullied in school for being an actual loser, it triggers me.
"Study finds less skilled Halo 3 players more likely to harass women in-game" would be the best title.
I've been playing games long enough to know that certain games attract certain types of people. The demographics can even vary widely from platform to platform within the same games, especially when online play is also segregated by platform.
This study's dataset is much too narrowly scoped to be making the sweeping statements in this article.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting: > The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.
Why did you feel the need to reiterate the exact quote that the grandparent post quoted?
For the same reason the grandparent post reiterated it: the readers downvoting the parent post seem to have missed it.