I want to start by saying they definitely make some good points in the intro and the study itself but I'm a little confused on how this study can be conclusive in any way for significantly more hostility towards the female-voice vs male. The frequency of positive comments and negative towards both male and female voice both had P values that showed significance but the results for negativity towards male vs female didn't as far as I saw (it's late here so I may have missed them though :), will re-read in the morning). Also, this sample size is really small for trying to draw conclusion about such a large and varied demographic such as gamers. Which can be problematic because the results of the study have already caught like wild-fire and I'm seeing them on many different websites. The problem with this is that now not only are gamers all going to be generalized and painted as hostile mysoginists, sensasionalizing findings like this IMO will push female gamers away from the gaming. I'm not saying I don't think that the issues of an industry and the problems with the behaviors in gaming and the environment shouldn't be brought to light, I would just hope for more conclusive and realistic results. I'm also confused by the discussion where they say this.... "Since there were a greater number of negative statements within the female manipulation, we examined whether these statements could be considered hostile sexism [32]. Of the 82 players in the female manipulation playing on the same team as the experimental player, only 11 individuals (13%) uttered hostile sexist statements. As a result of this small sample size, we only examined whether the presence of hostile sexist statements was affected by individual performance relative to the experimental player. We found that the presence of sexist statements was not determined by differences in maximum skill achieved (χ2 = 1.70, p = 0.19), the number of deaths (χ2 = 0.57, p = 0.45) or the number of kills (χ2 = 2.25, p = 0.13) relative to the experimental player." Does that mean skill was in fact not correlated? I may have just misunderstood the findings and the significance of them. I also clearly see from this study (and just in general) that gaming is a safer environment (in terms of negativity/harassment) for men than women. I just feel like the findings of this study are being blown out of proportion and creating a image of gamers/gaming that isn't beneficial to either female or male gamers.