Thread: sexualisation of girls

Hi, im new here and i wanted to take up something personal i encounter often while i play World of Warcraft. (it can probably be any other way of online interaction/game/chat ect).

Well when outing myself as female player i get a lot of "wrong attention", all of a sudden i get called honey, kitten and even milf, but i also get spat on. I find it very disturbing what i had to read in whispers directed to me. When i ask how old these guys are i got to know they were between 16 and 19.

I overhear /overread general discussions boys are having about women. They refer to them as es and sluts. I got into a discussion with a boy who things all drunken girls are easy and only want one thing.

Where is that coming from? I get sexualisized the moment i out myself as female. I feel degraded when they start asking me intimate things, i feel violated when i get immoral offers ect.

I know guys feel strong and arrogant behind a computer screen that protects them from real consequences. But i find the trend very disturbing that young men have such distorted images of girls /women and a unhealthy attitude towards sex.

Plz discuss
I need some help on how to counter such zar behaviour.
TY

Hoarde or Ally?

There are 9 million ppl that play that game you are gonna run into all types of ppl . You are just running into ppl with lil to not respect for self so don't expect them to respect others.

Ignore their comments and if all else fails change servers. i've played WoW and all but a few are great ppl.

Hi Madulain, I'm a man myself and I've seen it to, and I believe it's sad. The problem I see it has affected many of our young girls. If you come across this where you have to converse with someone that is that way to me the best thing to do is to speak up and put them in their place so to speak, of course with Grace. This will instill your integrity.

I apprreciate the women on this site, they have heart of Gold but yet Steel Magnolias. I would'nt think of doing and saying things like that.

I would like to say you will feel genuinely respected here. I believe the men here respect women as being a vital part of the Human Race (not because of Sex)
but because what they contribute to the Society as a whole.

Those are more comments than advise I guess but I feel you pain as much as I can by being a man. I'm trying to put myself in a position if women were to talk about us Men in some degrading fashion - Good Thread

Horde.

The thing is when i ignore them i feel i empower their behaviour. I wanna take a hammer and hang some respect for women into their skulls. And i wanna tell them i dont find it ok that i get degraded by them.

Feels like rap music and hentai has an influence on how young men develop their view on females.. at least i feel like that.

/discuss

Much of it it do to all the trash on the internet, things their age or sometimes any age should not be watching - I'm not trying to censor but you get my driff?

Hmmm.

There is obviously a combination of factors at play here. Most MMORPGers are 15-20 year old guys, who are young and stup1d, and obviously aren't getting laid because they spend their lives behind a computer screen. So, they will obviously hit on girls they find in the virtual world, they don't really have a choice about it .

Insofaras general discussion of women beind derogatory, I think that when people are in relationships, they always have something bad to say about the other, and in the completely anonymous internet they can get their whining done without it ever getting back to him. So those in relationships probably will be calling them b1tch.

Hentai.... hahah, well, yes.

I mainly just think that most people who play WOW are nerds that are angry with women because they all leave them alone.


I played a free MMORPG and two people in my guild are getting married (oh dear, hahah).

I understand the mechanism behind nerdy gamers thinking they are James Bond and i understand ur tougher being anonymous. What i dont understand is that "" for example has become a more and more normal word to name a female. I can understand that its used in anger when u have an unhappy realtionship, but that is not the topic here.

What can >>i<< do when i feel getting reduced to a pair of boobs?
Ignore?
walk away?
try to talk some sense into them?
how?