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<blockquote data-quote="TanithT" data-source="post: 5947622" data-attributes="member: 87695"><p>Like a lot of my female friends, when I play on an MMO, I don't actually fess up to being female. There's no point in it when all it gets you is harassment. You might actually be surprised who in your party is female IRL, even if they're playing the big tank dude. Yes, this can still work if your MMO does voice. I can pretty passably pitch my voice male, and voice changers are easily buyable online for the ladies who can't. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>I don't really have any good answers about your hypothetical pool of women who don't game because they got turned off by what they perceived to be a sexist atmosphere, but maybe this will offer a small bit of anecdotal insight.</p><p></p><p>I'm largely retired from the con circuit and the SCA now for lack of time, and because it is bloody depressing that I can't fight any more, but I used to do a LOT of fannish events. Filk cons, gaming cons, relax-a-cons, literary cons, larps, SCA wars and feasts, Faires, etc. I got to know folks in a lot of different areas of fandom. Sometimes while I was at a different kind of event at a big con I'd try to recruit someone who seemed cool for the next game I had scheduled. I had a hell of a lot more luck with men than with women.</p><p></p><p>This is an adapted summary of multiple conversations I have actually had with fannish women who strongly rejected gaming. The details varied of course, as does my memory, but the essential core of it is here.</p><p></p><p>"Hey, it's been fun chatting, but I'm scheduled to run a Serenity game in half an hour - do you play? You're welcome to join us."</p><p></p><p>"No, I don't game, sorry."</p><p></p><p>"Wanna walk down there with me so we can finish what we were talking about while I set up?"</p><p></p><p>"I don't like to go in the gaming room."</p><p></p><p>"Why not? You're at DragonCon, you're dressed up like steampunk Kaylee, and you were just at the science fiction writer's workshop asking about how to get more creative ideas for your writing. Firefly games are cool."</p><p></p><p>"Those guys give me the creeps. I don't want to go in there."</p><p></p><p>This is not a "normal" woman I'm getting this from, because I don't bother recruiting mundanes. This is someone at a convention who is significantly active in a fandom in some way, and who knows perfectly well what gaming is. In fact she's probably done it before, and will say so - she just doesn't want to do it again.</p><p></p><p>I didn't record statistics, I didn't take numbers, and since these were casual recruitment conversations at busy conventions, I mostly didn't bother asking any further what the specific issues were and why going in the gaming room seemed to be a definite "ew, I don't go in there" for a not overwhelmingly huge but definitely significant percentage of fannish women. Seriously, the number of times I have heard women say that the gaming room is no-go territory for them is nontrivial. Why this is exactly, I can not say. But, it is. </p><p></p><p>Some of it may be just the social stereotypes against gamers that seem to operate even inside of fandom, but I don't actually know. I don't have anything more concrete than this, or any better answers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TanithT, post: 5947622, member: 87695"] Like a lot of my female friends, when I play on an MMO, I don't actually fess up to being female. There's no point in it when all it gets you is harassment. You might actually be surprised who in your party is female IRL, even if they're playing the big tank dude. Yes, this can still work if your MMO does voice. I can pretty passably pitch my voice male, and voice changers are easily buyable online for the ladies who can't. :D I don't really have any good answers about your hypothetical pool of women who don't game because they got turned off by what they perceived to be a sexist atmosphere, but maybe this will offer a small bit of anecdotal insight. I'm largely retired from the con circuit and the SCA now for lack of time, and because it is bloody depressing that I can't fight any more, but I used to do a LOT of fannish events. Filk cons, gaming cons, relax-a-cons, literary cons, larps, SCA wars and feasts, Faires, etc. I got to know folks in a lot of different areas of fandom. Sometimes while I was at a different kind of event at a big con I'd try to recruit someone who seemed cool for the next game I had scheduled. I had a hell of a lot more luck with men than with women. This is an adapted summary of multiple conversations I have actually had with fannish women who strongly rejected gaming. The details varied of course, as does my memory, but the essential core of it is here. "Hey, it's been fun chatting, but I'm scheduled to run a Serenity game in half an hour - do you play? You're welcome to join us." "No, I don't game, sorry." "Wanna walk down there with me so we can finish what we were talking about while I set up?" "I don't like to go in the gaming room." "Why not? You're at DragonCon, you're dressed up like steampunk Kaylee, and you were just at the science fiction writer's workshop asking about how to get more creative ideas for your writing. Firefly games are cool." "Those guys give me the creeps. I don't want to go in there." This is not a "normal" woman I'm getting this from, because I don't bother recruiting mundanes. This is someone at a convention who is significantly active in a fandom in some way, and who knows perfectly well what gaming is. In fact she's probably done it before, and will say so - she just doesn't want to do it again. I didn't record statistics, I didn't take numbers, and since these were casual recruitment conversations at busy conventions, I mostly didn't bother asking any further what the specific issues were and why going in the gaming room seemed to be a definite "ew, I don't go in there" for a not overwhelmingly huge but definitely significant percentage of fannish women. Seriously, the number of times I have heard women say that the gaming room is no-go territory for them is nontrivial. Why this is exactly, I can not say. But, it is. Some of it may be just the social stereotypes against gamers that seem to operate even inside of fandom, but I don't actually know. I don't have anything more concrete than this, or any better answers. [/QUOTE]
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