Gaming is a vital frontier (unfortunately) in the struggle (if it's even happening) to stop feminist revisionism & attempts to conquer male spaces

Ok-Consideration8724 · 2026-01-22T10:59:14+00:00

This is more evident with the Kingsmen situation. Here was a guy trying to win money in a tourney of a game that he is really good at, gave a reasonable critique of his team to try and get them to play better, and gets yelled at and banned. They called him a loser and broke because he cared about winning the money for college.

The teammates he critiqued? Women. Feminism ruined gaming, not women.

Joey3155 · 2026-01-22T10:56:01+00:00

Personally from what I see the DEI-ification in gaming is coming to an end. The rebellion has already started Microsoft quietly announced its new DEI policy (they're moving away from it) and the other major publishers are suffering financial shortfalls as a lot of games come up short. Meanwhile games like Stellar Blade and Lords of the Fallen are successful. I think gaming is self correcting.

TenuousOgre · 2026-01-22T18:22:30+00:00

I think one thing many analysts miss is that gaming ultimately is split into two primary groupings, phone based and everything else. Women primarily are involved in phone based. It’s the console snd PC gaming base, which is mostly male, where the DEI has caused a lot of product failures and is being pushed back against hard I think we¡re going to see this division widen. Console snd PC are going to have to chase men¡s money to survive. Phone, by its nature, is more equally distributed. So DEI and women-focused gaming can thrive without impacting the male audience.

GobthraukGoonsgrinIX · 2026-01-22T12:09:37+00:00

Said it before, will say it again. Gaming is a "male space" because we were here first. Fantasy, Star Wars, D&D, RPGs, were mostly nerd hobbies. And most nerds were straight men. Women AVOIDED these spaces because they were disinterested, and probably hated hanging out with nerds. The same karens who used to bully you in high school are spinning lies about how THEY were excluded from the space.

Also the "gooner" hypocrisy of shaming men for liking classical male hero stories with attractive (pixel) women when they're out there gooning to AI boyfriends with period trackers, kdrama shower scenes played by REAL actors and MONSTER D*CKING "dark romance" novels. Lol

Bonus point: western koreaboo karens had a neurotic meltdown cuz ONE kpop idol gave a racy waterbomb performance while they out there demanding male actors show MORE skin in their dramas

ShabbyJerking · 2026-01-23T00:25:08+00:00

The war was waged and men lost, 12 years ago. Ever heard of GG?

Gleichstellung4084 · 2026-01-23T14:06:11+00:00

a type of Misogyny is rampant in the parallel domain of "chess". It has been maintained for decades that men are not supportive of women in chess (mild discrimination) but that they are also exhibiting predatory behaviours in tournaments, shaming a whole cohort of people playing chess.

This has been backed by "scientific data", that is miscalculations on actual data, resulting in women achieving higher returns for participating in chess, compared to men.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2026-01-22T17:19:49+00:00

It wasn't really until the 90's that video gaming took on it's "primarily male" slant, and that was due mostly to Sega's marketing campaigns. Look back at the Atari or pre-Genesis era, and you'll see how it used to be much more gender-neutral.

Here's the thing: nerd culture, as we know it today, was largely founded by, and overwhelmingly pioneered by, autists. While it's always risky to generalize, especially about neurological conditions, there's one thing about autists that's almost universally true, and that's that they've VERY egalitarian. White, black, young, old, male, female, it doesn't matter; if you can hack it, you can hang with the group. And if you can't, but you're there to learn, that's fine, too (frankly, it may be even better, since it gives them a chance to blather about what they love).

The Feminists saw the egalitarianism, and assumed they'd be welcomed. And they were- at first- because "hey, a girl is showing interest!". Autists- and I say this as someone with Asperger's; this is knowledge, not an attack- basically don't do subtext, which has predictable effects on your love life, so any positive contact is treasured (that's not to say that they have no self-esteem, but it's an area where many are lacking).

However, autists aren't egalitarian because they want to be egalitarian; they are (as I implied before) egalitarian because they're meritocratic: whether it's a wizened graybeard dispensing advice on life or a 5-year old discussing the best Pokemon, autists will happily listen at the feet of the master- but only if they ARE the master. Feminism and meritocracy go together like chlorine and bleach, as you well know, and conflict ensued. But autists are autists, and so generally have no fear of social ostracism, since they tend to be low-level pariahs anyway. Hell, many are old enough to remember when "nerd" was unambiguously an INSULT.

So the Feminists, facing an opponent against whom their weapons were utterly useless, tried instead to turn the wrath of society at large against those evil sexist gamers; that's ultimately what Gamergate, or at least that portion of it, was about.

Gaming- nerd culture in general, really- has always had a notable, if rarely huge, female presence; there ARE nerdy women, after all. But the pendulum against nerdhood is inevitably going to swing back, if not to the point of hostility it had before. Angry words are just angry words; we survived before, and will again.

World-Three · 2026-01-22T15:03:01+00:00

Like GobthraukGoonsgrinIX said... Men get criticized for liking boobs and shapely attractive women, while the bear sex crap in Baldur's Gate 3 was some of the most wildly supported shit? The hypocrisy even inside the same medium is insane.

When we do things like that, or when devs put crap into games and nexusmods says hey, removing the stuff you don't like in the game is now forbidden, we enter a state of unnecessary control that basically reduces games media to signal boosting.

Why is bear sex more of a supported norm than "unrealistic beauty standards"? How is (or was IDK) a modding platform allowed to prohibit what you can mod out of the game? (Aside from circumventing paywalls)

It's really approaching and supporting a "don't like it, don't buy it" environment. And if it gets there while hardware is getting bat shit expensive, they'll lose their actual fans while the people they're trying to please by a public majority continue to do what they intended to do:

Sexualize male spaces by inserting themselves in the space and diverting them to other platforms to "see more".

Obviously there are outliers, but the general streamer representation of women is... Akin to being a cam girl with a controller. Or you know, just chatting, where the controller is unnecessary.

concious_Cappucino · 2026-01-22T10:18:36+00:00

Women will never enjoy the thrill, feel and bro bonding through games that us males get.

And it cannot be EQUALLED by just putting more Feminine characters In games.

OnlyCommentWhenTipsy · 2026-01-23T15:54:38+00:00

I know the uglification of female protagonists has already backfired. Turns out when people want fantasy and escapism, not even women want to role play as an uggo.

RichardRoma1986 · 2026-01-22T15:06:19+00:00

Bring…back….gatekeeping of hobbies.

Lighter-Strike · 2026-01-22T10:04:07+00:00

Haha, nice thing about being a true nerd. They will never be interseted in games like SA:MP or GTA 3d era modding. Good luck to them to try and bother me....

RyuujinPl · 2026-01-22T12:28:20+00:00

The thing is.. it is just about preferences? I am 30 years old and I see exact same composition of gamers as back when I was 10. There were and are many girls playing computer games but they:

Pick other games by preference. Sims, Stardew Valley, Zoo tycoon. Which are less in quantity than typical action-packed games.
Are way less prone to get hyperfixated on them. Boys are more likely to be into games and boy gamers are more likely to be the ones to spend 18h daily playing

Neither of those are hard rules but more of statistical trend. There are/were girls playing battlefield and are/were boys playing Sims (including myself).

And for sure there never was any misogyny in gamers circles. For every boy I know girl being into gaming was HUGE positive. In fact many girls just pretended to be gamers just to be more attractive on gaming market even though they were NOT into games.

What is happening in gaming industry is just spill-over / spread from hollywood. People almost professionally focused on spreading correct message and look for sexism where the is none moved from writing movie scripts to game design. And they are ending up the same way; No one likes the products that is tailored to non-existing demand so no one is going to buy it. So they blame it, obviously, at misogyny - because men just not watching movies tailored to women is somehow targeted to hurt women.

Tigre_feroz_2012 · 2026-01-25T04:05:40+00:00

I'm a gamer, so this hits home. I'm also concerned about this. But maybe there's hope. If memory serves, that toxic, feminist, video game activist Anita Sarkeesian has stopped her video game activism.

Ronniebbb · 2026-01-22T15:38:30+00:00

I'm a female gamer. Ive been playing video games since childhood and will continue to do so. It's a fun hobby and I love the storylines (see rdr2. That was one hell of a ride).

Video game companies recognizing women also love to game and advertising to us as well, is not women conquering your spaces. It's just women enjoying a hobby. You can have male video game clubs and such (I'm thinking like book clubs kind of deal) and such where the fandom is for men. I've seen them on FB. I'm apart of female ones. But hobbies should not be determined by sex

ilBolas · 2026-01-22T18:00:53+00:00

It is a fact that way too commonly women go into these multiplayer games and they get called any number of horrendous things just for the fact that you can tell they are women, misogyny is incredibly common in multiplayer games. Now, I that doesn't mean it's any more wrong than the other common tendencies in PvP games like racism, homphobia, and plenty of other issues that stem from people being too comfortable with facing no consequences for saying whatever they want, since this is partially an inherent part of these spaces because you can act as much as an asshole as you wish.

Making more games that have female characters, or that appeal both to men and women, is in no way a problem imo. Unless women actively go banning videogames due to some agenda, I don't see the issue with more people engaging with games. Misogyny is a thing in games just as much as other forms of discrimination, so trying to educate people not to behave like absolute morons towards other human beings doesn't seem like a problem in my book.

fluffyfirenoodle · 2026-01-22T09:59:56+00:00

The problem is y'all call anything in the gaming space "woke" if it has a hint of progressive world leaning without a hint of irony and make MRA's as a whole appear as irate loons. Fix our optics before trying to "fix" gaming.

jjohnston6262 · 2026-01-22T10:51:19+00:00

Bro what

Title	Gaming is a vital frontier (unfortunately) in the struggle (if it's even happening) to stop feminist revisionism & attempts to conquer male spaces
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Date	January 22, 2026 9:42 AM UTC (5 months ago)
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