Because they're little boys not men. What do you expect?

Because gamers that treat other gamers badly suck at games.

I'd have to say it's not real men doing this...or maybe because they are losers in real life

I'm going to be honest here. I think people in the gaming community being sexist towards female gamers is stupid. There is absolutely nothing that says women aren't allowed to, or should be discriminated against for, playing video games. Games weren't designed exclusively for boys. I have a sister I play halo with, and a cousin who loves Skyrim. My first ever Crota's End run had two girls on the fireteam, and I didn't really even care. It actually made the experience more fun, because they both maintained a good sense of humor despite failing to kill Crota the Green Godly -Blam!- head for two hours. The fact that there are people that will go as far as harassing female gamers in this community just plain disgusts me.

Oh look. It's this topic again. How very... [i]very...[/i] [i]o r i g i n a l.[/i] I'm a female. I game. I've [b]never[/b] been treated poorly by anyone except trolls. For the record, trolls treat everyone poorly. Also, it's rare that anyone is overtly sexual or flirtatious. If you ignore the flirting and respond like a normal person instead of a giggly teenager, they drop it real quick. 99% of people never even comment on my gender, even in PUGs.

I treat everyone with equal disgust. Dick or Vagina; you're all garbage.

when I play with a girl I just stay quiet cause... *story time kiddies* Back when Facebook was becoming a thing, it got really popular for middle schoolers as well. So this girl I had a crush on added me and I thought it was the greatest thing ever! Lol, so we talked about stuff like our favorite shows, our favorite foods, plot points and spoilers, gossiping about teachers and other kids, and movies. Well, in short this girl wanted to be a movie star when she got older, but she didn't want to make it alone. That's when she told me that she liked me and I told her the same. So school was normal, she's be with her friends and I'd be with the 2 dudes I always hang out with (still friends after 7 years). But on fb things got kinky. We ended up doing this stupid thing where it was like: Her: *takes of clothes* Me: *stare in amazement* Type of thing, and it went on for a good couple of weeks until we both started to talk dirty. Like, we both said what we'd do to each other and how hard/wet we were... Not gonna say b/c of ninja justice. And so the end of the school year was a good 2 weeks away and all of a sudden I get called to the principal's office where he showed me 1 good hefty stack of papers. It was conversation between me and this girl but it was highly edited so that it made it seem like I was the only one talking dirty. I told him it wasn't true but he told me if I'm lying I will be sent to a court. I told him how we both talked like this and that she would initiate this talk and I ended it. He said prove it, and so I logged onto Facebook in his computer and walla... Our full conversation between this girl and I. So after that she was expelled and I got really scared to talk to girls. Like, anything I say or do could trigger something. I just stay quiet and compliment on what they do during games. PLOT POINT( heh): I was friends with this other girl, right? Like childhood friend who I happened to be friends with the girl I flirted with. When the 7th grade started she told me how the girl wanted to get me in trouble and sue my family for money to make it into the big films. Her parents had a lawyer ready.

Gamers in general are like that to each other. Regardless of sex. The reason why you hear about it happening to females more is because they complain about such things more. Most guys already know trashing talking is a normal thing in the gaming community. So it's not a big deal. I really hope the gaming community doesn't do anything to drastic because of these over sensitive people. The gaming industry is fine how it is.

Now i cant speak for all incidents here but this is one i witnessed. We have this guy who can be an asshole at times, then we go to raid and this girl joins in, she doesnt know anyone but one of my friends. So we proceed to raid and one of my friends is being an asshole to everyone (in good fun, he wasnt trying to hurt anyone were just joking around) but the girl didnt know and she took it all personally and left. We messaged her explaining and my friend apologized but i think its important to note the difference between guys who are mean to girls, and guys who are assholes to everyone.

Great Wall of text Batman! But it's because people are jerks and they latch onto whatever they can to insult people. You're not being assaulted verbally because you're female, but the insults are tailored to the fact that you're female.

Women talk smack when I beat them... in a game of search on Black ops. I'm too nice.

I feel bad for you, living with autism must hurt. Here is a website to help. https://www.autismspeaks.org Again, I pity your disease, please seek help.