MWEB Gamezone Writer Zubayr Bhyat came across a blog entry about some seriously sexist behaviour in a high ranked Mass Effect 3 online match. The awesome outcome is worth it in the end though.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
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I have played alongside some amazing female gamers that would beat the taste out of any other competitive gamer, male or female. I would pay alongside anyone that shows respect for one another, and has the ability to play the game at hand regardless of their gender. Nice write up and I thoroughly agree.
What you're saying there about empathy brings to mind a story a male friend shared with me last week. Taking out all of the context because I don't think it's relevant, he said to a female colleague, 'women are emotional'. He didn't mean it negatively - he was talking about empathy, how women respond on a more emotional level to situations and act accordingly. It's also just plain biology - all this estrogen we have coursing through our veins DOES make us more emotional. It's a fact. The woman he was talking with got all offended and accused him of being misogynist. So as much as some men must recognise the scope and effects of womens' empathy, so do a lot of women, I think >.<
In gaming it's a funny thing. The 'boyz' encountered in this ME3 match clearly wanted to win, and for a lot of people, PvP is all about the winning - it's so strange that that changes when gender comes into it; 'I want to win, but only with my crew of boyz; no wemonz allowed!'. There are two things here that bug me - firstly the desperate need for winning without compromise, and of course secondly the ease with which that's put aside when the men realise they've got women on their team. It shifts from being about winning to being about 'winning as men', and of course these 'Maninism' (:D) issues run deep. Some men think males should always earn more than females. Some men think females do not belong in certain places where tests of skill are concerned even if the women possess as much, if not more, skill than men. In some ways I think the gaming industry is pushing ahead of other industries in dealing with this because we're talking about it so much, and that's a good first step - highlighting the problem vociferously and letting everyone in the industry know it's NOT okay.
What an interesting read. It's such an epic lulz that in the end the last gamer was a chick. I've come across female gamers that can hold their own in any genre