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Edited by Draco_Mantis:
5/9/2016 1:14:46 PM
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Sexism in raids.
So I have a concern I would like to express.
Both my girlfriend and I are avid Destiny players. We both love raiding and doing POE and all of it. We both love PvE and PvP.
My concern comes in this, we do have a group that will do all of these things with us. But as it stands all of us have jobs and/or school. So sometimes it is difficult to get all of us together.
So what my girlfriend and I do is get a team of randoms.
Why is it that just because she is a woman that plays games she gets automatic passes into every group there is. Yet I have to pass some sort of test. We will even ask for groups with room for two for both of us. And as soon as they find out she is a woman they will invite her anyway and tell her to ditch me.
I have even had groups hit on her while I am in the chat. She is an amazing woman and tells them to stop or we are both leaving.
Most of the time we have to end up leaving because they wont stop.
I have even heard a guys girl yell at him to stop or she would break up with him.
Just because she is a woman she gets treated like a slut from multiple other people.
Why is this a thing.
When did disrespect become the common thing.
Edit: Thanks for the responses guys. I also have an experience to add that I forgot to mention on here. I have one female character which is my warlock. Well while on my warlock and with my girlfriend, A random guy at the tower decided to try and add us both. And as he put it he thought he it the jackpot. Like wtf is wrong with people that is so wrong and disrespectful it isn't even funny.
Edit: OK. To say for the record the reason I said sexism is the derogatory statements made because of her gender.
attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles.
This is the definition of sexism as taken from dictionary.com. those fall under sexism. if you are going to try and bash me for just voicing a concern, at least get your facts straight before you do.
Edit: Yes i Know all woman get hit on. That's the nature of males. I am talking about the way it is being done. Plain out disrespect in the things being said. I wonder if some of these things they said to a woman if they would ever dream to ever say them in person, or better yet in front of someone else.
Edit: This is just voicing a concern. Thinking out loud. Asking a question. Whatever you want to call it.
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Edited by Wallaby Vonwise: 5/9/2016 4:22:07 PMI can't really find a rational excuse for why we are still battling social norms of the 50s era. Everyone should be entitled to exist and participate in social places with a measure of safety and equality, free of harassment and being accosted by perceptions lingering from societal understandings of over half a century ago. As a society we may have learned some things since then. Or not, as evidenced. If reason escapes you, at least basic decency and manners should apply. No one is a child, man or woman before they're a person and they should be treated with dignity as such. These values existed back in the good old days too, but you don't hear folks harkening back to them everytime they see or hear something that doesn't fit with the tiny box their world view fits in. Maybe that's because there is no expiration date on human rights and equality, they're relevant now, not just from a time where racism was okay and women knew their place. I know you know it but ladies, where ever you are and whatever you're doing, you belong there if you want to be there and you'll always be welcome in my clan.
