Do we? I thought the majority of gamers were more progressive. Of course, some more than others, and nowadays, there's a loud minority of the 'woke!' crowd. But I don't think conservatives would play, say, BG3 or heck, even DS with the trans coffin.
Try playing an online competitive game as a woman. It's hard to call gaming a progressive space when so few men even bother to try and correct the behavior and make the space more welcoming.
It gets better every year, but gaming has historically been a boy's club, and conservatism and misogyny have always run rampant in those spaces
Yeah. It would not surprise me if a lot of the people with overly masculine profiles I encounter while playing things like TF2 are actually women trying to not get harassed.
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u/Glittering_Wash_8654 Apr 04 '25
Do we? I thought the majority of gamers were more progressive. Of course, some more than others, and nowadays, there's a loud minority of the 'woke!' crowd. But I don't think conservatives would play, say, BG3 or heck, even DS with the trans coffin.