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kleinbl00  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Study: Unskilled male gamers more hostile to women than skilled players

    A total of 189 players spoke in these 102 games; all of them were male. This is not to say that women did not play, just that they did not speak. This does, however, reinforce the fact that women are entering a very male dominated environment.

So I note that there was no way to control for age; I'm not sure that matters but when there's a negative correlation between skill and disrespect it does make one wonder if there's a positive correlation between skill and age. Not to excuse terrible behavior but when it's so male-dominated that the girls aren't even speaking, it seems plausible that the younger demo skews even more male and teenaged male FPS players are... uncouth, as a broad stereotype.

This seems like a good time to share an open letter from Aisha Tyler.