Re: how can we get more girls to play
Posted: Tuesday, 22nd July 2014, 18:27
Sar wrote:So what do you have against sexless autists anyway, Arrhy?
Have you seen gammafunk's commits?
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Sar wrote:So what do you have against sexless autists anyway, Arrhy?
Lasty wrote:TheDefiniteArticle wrote:I have to act like it's all a big crazy coincidence that the NBA has more black men than white women.
For example, it sounds an awful lot like you're advocating gender and race essentialist sentiments here, which are sexist and racist respectively, and if that's so, I condemn you for it and request that you stop expressing these viewpoints.
cerebovssquire wrote:You post a finding about women and wikipedia. Nemora (admittedly only with anecdotes, and calling that out is a completely valid point) says that she disagrees with it. Your response (before you edited it) was "but this was a point made by a woman". I say why I don't think it is relevant. Then you act like this is completely tangential when you brought it up in the first place. I really don't follow this line of thought.
WalkerBoh wrote:Let's be honest, the only people who are capable of adequately answering why more women don't play Crawl is the women who don't play Crawl. Men who play Crawl and women who play Crawl are not fit to answer this, for what should be obvious reasons.
Leafsnail wrote:The NBA analogy makes no sense. Yes, in top-level professional sport you would expect the gender that has the physical advantage at playing the sport to dominate, due to the incredibly high skill requirement for entry. But DCSS has no such barrier, the only requirements are that you are able to access the game and willing to play. There's also no obvious reason why men would be better than women at playing roguelikes in the first case.
Incidentally I think the racial genetics argument is also suspect, it could easily be attributable to basketball generally being more popular in black communities for cultural and historical reasons.
somebody wrote:Anita Sarkeesian
Sar wrote:somebody wrote:Anita Sarkeesian
oh boy, here we go
nilsbloodaxe wrote:Sar wrote:somebody wrote:Anita Sarkeesian
oh boy, here we go
Yeah, I think this is like Godwin's law now. I think it's time to bail on this thread.
WalkerBoh wrote:Let's be honest, the only people who are capable of adequately answering why more women don't play Crawl is the women who don't play Crawl. Men who play Crawl and women who play Crawl are not fit to answer this, for what should be obvious reasons.
Hirsch I wrote:WalkerBoh wrote:Let's be honest, the only people who are capable of adequately answering why more women don't play Crawl is the women who don't play Crawl. Men who play Crawl and women who play Crawl are not fit to answer this, for what should be obvious reasons.
my gf just said: "it is boring, hard, and I have better things to do." its pretty much the same reasons men dont play it. but she agreed to give it another try. I'll gather her feedback, It may be useful, I guess.
Edit: Nemora shrugs a lot, doesnt she?
we can get sex when we want, so we dont need to flee from reality. life's more fun wen you can get multiple orgasms.
Sar wrote:somebody wrote:Anita Sarkeesian
oh boy, here we go
Nemora wrote:You wanted non-anecdotal examples.
I mentioned one.
*shrug*
nilsbloodaxe wrote:Nemora wrote:You wanted non-anecdotal examples.
I mentioned one.
*shrug*
Well, actually, it's mostly because mentioning Anita Sarkeesian and her video series in most videogame forums ends up turning into a total clusterfuck.
But actually addressing this, as a statistician, I seriously question her work. She may be right, of course, but her methods aren't convincing to me because they are not scientific and are, in fact, based on anecdotal evidence.
Hirsch I wrote:*curl in a ball and cry*
why are you being agressive towards me I'm so peaceful
Edit: a friend of mine just said women dont play so much videogames becausewe can get sex when we want, so we dont need to flee from reality. life's more fun wen you can get multiple orgasms.
Nemora wrote:Go look up some of the studies done on the gaming community. They're out there. If you really want to learn about it... then do it!
nilsbloodaxe wrote:pretty much only care about a person's sex when actual sexual intercourse is involved and I am a part
nilsbloodaxe wrote:Nemora wrote:Go look up some of the studies done on the gaming community. They're out there. If you really want to learn about it... then do it!
Technically, I am making no claims, so the burden of proof is on you. But even with that, I honestly don't really care about learning about it, because I don't have infinite time, don't really get involved in video game communities outside of roguelikes (I play board games when I want to play something socially), and pretty much only care about a person's sex when actual sexual intercourse is involved and I am a part.
As to the original point of the thread: I don't know how to get more women involved. Looking back, I can't claim that I have seen any particular bias here towards female players (I can't even recall sex coming up before this thread). I do know two female friends who are more-than-just-casual gamers and both are/have been exposed to roguelikes by multiple friends (not to mention a husband and ex-long-term boyfriend, respectively) but neither, for whatever reason, picked them up. Probably greater exposure, in general, will bring in more. I also wonder the demographics might not change as the children of today grow up. I have observed most of my college freshmen playing little games on their phones or laptops when I come into class, and sex doesn't seem to have that much to do with it.
Nemora wrote: Look, I'm trying really hard to be nice about this, but it's really hard when first, you tell me that my personal experiences (with numerous examples) aren't really good enough to be convincing. Then, you tell me that the sources I gave aren't good enough because they aren't scientific enough for you, even though they are EVEN MORE examples from many, many women who aren't me.
Nemora wrote: Finally, when I prompt you to actually go look yourself since apparently the personal, lived experiences of myself and many other women aren't good enough, you tell me you don't really care about this. And not only do you not really care about this, but you also even said you don't really participate in video game communities outside of Crawl... so I ask, why would you think you'd know better about what I have to deal with? Am I not an authority on my own experience? Why do I have to prove anything to you?
This is exactly why I didn't bother tracking down any studies myself. Unless you're actually motivated to learn, you're not going to educate yourself- or be educated. Unless you're actually willing to see, you're going to ignore the negative experiences happening around you. I'm not going to waste my time tracking down endless sources to try to "prove" to you that the things I have experienced on a daily basis are actually valid.
And, if you'd even be bothered, tasonir linked a few things.
But I don't think you really care about any of the sources any of us would throw at you. So I'm not going to even bother.
Nemora wrote:EDIT: Oh and by the way, even though you say "technically" you're making no claims, you were pretty insistent on us not throwing out biology or whatever as a reason why women might not play video games so much- and you did some pretty amusing (read: not amusing) backpeddling to try to not sound like you were saying it's possible more black men play in the NBA because of biology in the same couple posts.
Nemora wrote:I'm done engaging with you.
Arrhythmia wrote:Actually women who play Crawl would be a fine group to ask since, uh, once upon a time they were women who didn't play Crawl.
Sar wrote:nilsbloodaxe wrote:pretty much only care about a person's sex when actual sexual intercourse is involved and I am a part
that's not very inclusive
WalkerBoh wrote:Arrhythmia wrote:Actually women who play Crawl would be a fine group to ask since, uh, once upon a time they were women who didn't play Crawl.
Once upon a time I was a baby, but if you asked me about babies I would be like, "Whaaaat...?"
nilsbloodaxe wrote:But actually addressing this, as a statistician, I seriously question her work. She may be right, of course, but her methods aren't convincing to me because they are not scientific and are, in fact, based on anecdotal evidence.
WalkerBoh wrote:Arrhythmia wrote:Actually women who play Crawl would be a fine group to ask since, uh, once upon a time they were women who didn't play Crawl.
Once upon a time I was a baby, but if you asked me about babies I would be like, "Whaaaat...?"
zardo wrote:nilsbloodaxe wrote:But actually addressing this, as a statistician, I seriously question her work. She may be right, of course, but her methods aren't convincing to me because they are not scientific and are, in fact, based on anecdotal evidence.
"Man, I had such a shitty day at work today..."
"Oh yeah? Can you prove that!?"
edit: though if you're an actual statistician I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume maybe your brain just really doesn't quite work like a normal human person's
Hopeless wrote:As to the biological elemental, when a personage as august as Neil Degrasse Tyson has stated unequivocally that such posits are malarkey, I listen.
duvessa wrote:This is the most reddit sentence I've ever read.Hopeless wrote:As to the biological elemental, when a personage as august as Neil Degrasse Tyson has stated unequivocally that such posits are malarkey, I listen.
tabstorm wrote:Wait, you're telling me that the playerbase of DCSS isn't mostly made up of girls sitting and drinking tea in frilly dresses while playing?
Arrhythmia wrote:Sar wrote:So what do you have against sexless autists anyway, Arrhy?
Have you seen gammafunk's commits?
duvessa wrote:I'm not certain that comparing women to babies is something that will be useful in this discussion. Or any discussion.
people arguing that a very strong reason for gender differentials in games is misogynistic attitudes and trolling
twelwe wrote:i just want more girls is all
Lasty wrote:TheDefiniteArticle wrote:I'm a white male, ergo not allowed to have opinions on things like this.
Yeah, because white men are so oppressed and their opinions are never heard.
No one can stop you from having a viewpoint, and for the most part people can't stop you from expressing your viewpoint, but there's nothing to stop anyone else from calling out the problems with your viewpoint or asking you to stop expressing it. Having someone disagree with you isn't "silencing" you and isn't a form of oppression.TheDefiniteArticle wrote:I have to act like it's all a big crazy coincidence that the NBA has more black men than white women.
For example, it sounds an awful lot like you're advocating gender and race essentialist sentiments here, which are sexist and racist respectively, and if that's so, I condemn you for it and request that you stop expressing these viewpoints.
Leafsnail wrote:The NBA analogy makes no sense. Yes, in top-level professional sport you would expect the gender that has the physical advantage at playing the sport to dominate, due to the incredibly high skill requirement for entry. But DCSS has no such barrier, the only requirements are that you are able to access the game and willing to play. There's also no obvious reason why men would be better than women at playing roguelikes in the first case.
Incidentally I think the racial genetics argument is also suspect, it could easily be attributable to basketball generally being more popular in black communities for cultural and historical reasons.