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Topic	Polygon: Gaming's toxic men, explained
scar the 1 07/26/18 10:13:49 AM #118:	Panthera posted... scar the 1 posted... Panthera posted... I don't feel like reading through the entire article to check, does it have any clear stats on how it arrived at the conclusion of who is doing all the "toxic" stuff in gaming or not? How do you figure one would collect such data? I don't know, but it's kind of essential to figure out a way to do so, since otherwise you're not doing anything but projecting your preferred narrative onto the demographics involved. Sometimes it feels like people want it both ways. On the one hand it's absolutely natural that "real gamers" (a very male dominated demographic) react with toxicity when game journalists attack them, then when gamers are being extra toxic towards minorities and women, all of a sudden it's "we need hard stats on who is committing these atrocious toxic remarks". What's the slur for white male? Is it commonly used when people try to flame white men on CoD? I agree, it would be great to have harder stats on the toxic remarks thrown around. There might be some game companies that publish these kinds of things, I'm not sure. But if we widen the view to look at online forums in general, I'm baffled how anyone can think that "everyone gets the same amount of shit". Like, I have female friends who get indecent proposals (from men) as soon as they post in a big Facebook group. Often it's followed up with threats or more toxic remarks. I have a friend who got sent dickpics just because she was in the local newspaper. There was a famous case a couple of years ago in Sweden where a girl posted on H&M's Facebook page that she thought they shouldn't sell t-shirts with Chris Brown on them, and she got thousands of hateful comments, threats, threats sent to her physical address, etc. There's so much of this that I (nor my male friends) don't get at all. And I've grown up on the internet, I've played online games since they existed. Why should I expect toxicity in games to be significantly different from online in general? --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:905747542] in Polygon: G... [t:76842517]...</cite> <quote><cite>Panthera posted...</cite> <quote><cite>scar the 1 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Panthera posted...</cite> <quote>I don't feel like reading through the entire article to check, does it have any clear stats on how it arrived at the conclusion of who is doing all the "toxic" stuff in gaming or not?</quote> How do you figure one would collect such data?</quote> I don't know, but it's kind of essential to figure out a way to do so, since otherwise you're not doing anything but projecting your preferred narrative onto the demographics involved.</quote> Sometimes it feels like people want it both ways. On the one hand it's absolutely natural that "real gamers" (a very male dominated demographic) react with toxicity when game journalists attack them, then when gamers are being extra toxic towards minorities and women, all of a sudden it's "we need hard stats on who is committing these atrocious toxic remarks". What's the slur for white male? Is it commonly used when people try to flame white men on CoD? I agree, it would be great to have harder stats on the toxic remarks thrown around. There might be some game companies that publish these kinds of things, I'm not sure. But if we widen the view to look at online forums in general, I'm baffled how anyone can think that "everyone gets the same amount of shit". Like, I have female friends who get indecent proposals (from men) as soon as they post in a big Facebook group. Often it's followed up with threats or more toxic remarks. I have a friend who got sent dickpics just because she was in the local newspaper. There was a famous case a couple of years ago in Sweden where a girl posted on H&M's Facebook page that she thought they shouldn't sell t-shirts with Chris Brown on them, and she got thousands of hateful comments, threats, threats sent to her physical address, etc. There's so much of this that I (nor my male friends) don't get at all. And I've grown up on the internet, I've played online games since they existed. Why should I expect toxicity in games to be significantly different from online in general? --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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