Gaming's Inclusion Problem

It's one of the most annoying things i hear from female friends about gaming.I honestly tune my friends out at times when they start this topic on how females are treated. Unfortunately it is also very true. The culture of gaming is surprisingly unfriendly. Its a unforgiving culture but when did this exactly start? Many older gamers claim a time when they were excluded from their peers as nerds and losers and that gaming was a come as you are type environment. I can't say as to how true it is because everyone played some form of a game when i was in school but i can attest that this no longer the case. We as gamers divide ourselves up every chance we get. Are you a Real gamer? or just a casual fan? Did you have a sweet built from scratch gaming PC rig? or are you just a console player? this just the lighter side of this issue. One of the main divisions of course involves female gamers. Let me be clear if you are one of those Gurl Gamerz this is not a defense for you as far as i am concerned you are a part of the gaming problem. No this is for every girl who speak on her mic and is lambasted with names like bitch and whore. This is for cosplayers who have to worry about handsy attendees. This is for men who are tired of being assumed a dick by girls because of the actions on others. Dudes this shit has gotta stop. I get that some people take the attitude that Xbox Live is broken and can't be fixed so why bother. They believe it is a cesspool for racist,homophobic, and sexist assholes . A kind of last bastion of a lesser civilization that has survived the great plague known as growing the fuck up. Yes they huddle together teaching each other they ways of old continuing to refuse to evolve they are the last of their kind. They are like Will Smith from I Am Legend if Will Smith played an Assbag or Dickwad

Regardless if it is the truth or not we can't let it stand simply muting them does not make them go away though it does make them tolerable. We have to be vocal i recommend that at least 3 times a week you tell some ass face on Live the what for. Anymore and you'll be screaming all day. As for you Con attendees i know not all of your are lecherous perverts. This rant is not about you these are for that 1 percent who are. Seriously dudes? You complain that these girls are just there to whore themselves out for attention. That they could not possibly love the series that they are dress as or representing or that if they did not want to be groped they would not dress provocatively. OK let me address all these points Mr. McFeely. First off why does it bug you so much that they are only their for attention? You are clearly not trying to avoid giving them attention so why do you care so much? You act as if they are trying to mind control you with their breast to do their bidding and that the only to break this magical trance is to clearly grope them or make them extremely uncomfortable. A piece of advice when you are unable to stop looking at someone that is your problem not theirs. Don't like cosplay or booth babes? Complain about it to the shows host don't take it out on the girls. Second Why do you care how much they love the series? Maybe she just likes dressing up in costumes. Maybe her brother was watching the show or movie and she thought that the costume looked great. Maybe she is paid to represent the product and if she is why do you care whether or not that she love the series? I like burgers in fact i love them, but i don't get all bitchy trying to find out if the employees at the McDonalds loves them or is just trying to sell me a damn burger.

Now the last point i find the most idiotic it borders on rape apologist i especially find it repulsive. I said it once I'll say it maybe they dress like that because that is how their character dresses. Some women find dressing sexy makes the feel empowered (i myself am the opposite but you know.. to each its own.) but that is not permission to go and grope them or making them uncomfortable (at this point i just repeating myself). Also if we go by this logic that means every guy dressed as batman obviously wants to have dead parents and to deal with sociopaths.

Anyway this is the end of my rant but my point remains. Gaming culture was suppose to be about taking all the people the other groups and cliques didn't want not about deciding whose is and isn't a gamer or who is allowed in the club. When we do that we become exactly the opposite of what gaming is about. P.S. that batman costume is sweet as hell.