chicks who play video games meeting another chick who plays video games: oh i love your keychain :) is that zarya
gamer men meeting a woman who also plays video games: Greetings. If you don’t let me wife you right now I WILL kill my whole family
I’m kind of sick of posts like these. The world doesn’t stop when I enter a game stop and nor do men fall over themselves when I pick up a controller. They talk to me like a human. They don’t baby me in raids and nor do they “mansplain” and I don’t get any more or less shit about the games I play. Shocking. I know.
can u Please tell this to the gamer dudes whose numbers and tags i have 2 block because they start calling me a whore for telling them i dont wanna pocket them
@epkleinon i literally have to play with the mic off so guys don’t hear me and hit on me, insult me for not flirting back, and go out of their way to harass me. i had dudes tryina get my number while i was fuckin playing friday the 13th of all games and one dude who was playing as jason went out of his way to say “i wont kill you if you give me your number”. when i didn’t he legit ignored the other players and actively hunted me down. guys will get in my way to “save” me during overwatch matches and if they die get legitimately mad if i don’t thank them/flirt back because “you dumb slut, i died for you” (direct quote). and don’t even get me started on the amount of men who tried to mansplain to me how to play fucking smite (a fairly easy game) and got pissy when i was “ungrateful” or they realized i was actually better than them. that’s just the beginning of my list and i’m a dude with a feminine voice, i know plenty of actual girls who have it way worse than me. just cause you got it easy doesn’t mean women and dfab people aren’t dealing w droves if gross nerd boys.
Brooooooo. I work at GameStop, and I’m a pre-T trans dude who gets so much shit on a daily basis, since even if I look fairly masc, I sound like a girl so I’m treated as such. I had a teenage boy lean on my counter yesterday and ‘give me advice’ on how to use analog stick extensions because even if I talked through all our Kontrol Freak options, he decided to ‘help me out’ since I ‘obviously needed it’.
Keep in mind I’ve worked at GameStop for two years between two continents and literally helped him pick out the set his family bought based off of the Kontrol Freaks I actually own.
I’ve had a customer ask me how old you have to get to work there, and when I respond '18’ he said 'Oh so you’re legal?’ and proceed not to leave my store for the next hour until he got bored of waiting for me to process a trade and finally left. I was nervous to close my store alone that night. When I worked in EB Games (Australian sister company of GameStop), I had a customer invite himself over to my house and insisted waiting for after work to follow me down to my train and get offended when my manager came over to kick him out after I told him no a solid five times.
I get asked constantly 'So do you play video games?’ while my obviously male coworkers don’t. I have to prove myself before my reccomendations get taken seriously, in a field I’m passionate about.
Yes, some people dont get bothered. Yes, sometimes people are really great with women workers/players in the gaming industry!!! But like, dude, even on the GameStop sub-reddit, there are GameStop employees talking about how much they hate the women commentators on the GSTV and wish they’d die (seen it more than once). Women saying the same things male commentators have said for years, but now they want them to literally keel over and die because they’re 'just so annoying’.
There is a stigma. It takes effort to get past it. Don’t pretend it doesn’t exist. I work in it and experience it daily, and the amount of women who come into my store and get visibly relieved when I ask them the same questions I ask male customers is depressing. Let people game safely!!
arya stark, the westerosi equivalent of a gen z kid, in a casual conversation: yeah, i saw brienne beat the hound. what a mood. we stan a queen. wig = snatched. she just yeeted him off that cliff.
jon, a frustrated millennial who is coping with the fact that his sense of nihilism has been matched: what does that mean
davos, a baby boomer, who is trying to connect with the Youth: it means that brienne of tarth has Big Dick Energy, your grace
sometimes I’m like “my therapist doesn’t really tell me anything I don’t already know” but then I remember that I used to eat scrambled eggs every single morning because I hated them but I hated them less than I hate all other breakfast food on weekdays (don’t @ me waffles are a weekend food and they Do Not start me on a productive path) and my therapist said, “why not eat a lunch food?”
and I said, “explain”
and she said, “you know you’re allowed to eat whatever food you want in the morning. you are not bound by law to the traditional american breakfast.”
my father’s insurance pays a hundred dollars an hour for a woman to give me permission to eat a pb&j at six in the morning
