Laut einer Studie werden feministische Gamerinnen stärker für Sexismus verantwortlich gemacht | Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass Spielerinnen, die sich als Feministinnen identifizieren oder sich für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter engagieren, oft eher dafür verantwortlich gemacht werden, beim Online-Spielen sexistische Vorfälle erlebt zu haben.

From the [article](https://www.psypost.org/feminist-women-gamers-blamed-more-for-sexism-study-finds/): A [recent study](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01506-w) published in the journal Sex Roles highlights a troubling reality for many women in the world of online gaming. The research shows that women gamers who identify as feminists or engage in actions promoting gender equality are often blamed more for experiencing sexist incidents while playing online. Notably, this pattern of blame was most pronounced among participants who held stronger sexist attitudes towards women gamers.

Online video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment worldwide, connecting millions of people in shared virtual environments. Although gaming has historically been viewed as a male-dominated activity, recent data shows that nearly half of gamers are women. Despite this, many women gamers report feeling unwelcome in online gaming spaces and regularly encounter sexist attitudes and behaviors.

The study’s authors sought to explore why women gamers are often blamed for experiencing sexism in online gaming. They were particularly interested in understanding how certain characteristics of women gamers, such as identifying as feminists or engaging in gender equality activism, might influence perceptions of blame in sexist incidents.

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Kind of a layman here.

Anyone know what the point of studies like these are?

Do these guide policy or something?

I’m also a woman btw, but the games I play have a lot more women playing them so it’s a lot less toxic.

So, I wonder what kind of games this study was looking at, and how the demographics of the people playing these games might affect the results.

I tried reading the study, but all I could read was the abstract.

What was the saying… if one was at free to behave any way he wants without any consequences, any push back looks like “prosecution”. Many male players need to grow some balls and start to behave like a proper human being… not as bunch of “bros”a.k.a. assholes.

My personal experience limited to 20 years of WoW… but I am pretty sure, this “problem” transcends all online games.

I’ve only really been told I did something wrong once in the context of gaming with a girl. It was at a guild meet, and I called someone “dude” in the colloquial, friendly, non-descriptive sense. Just yesterday, I watched a mother call her 4-year-old daughter “dude.” So yes, I do believe this is accurate: a feminist is more likely to misinterpret something and make an issue out of it.

Side anecdote. Between 2006-2013 I played a lot of co-operative online games and usually held a leadership position and I had way more problems with men than I ever had with women. Correcting a man, for me, was always harder than correcting a woman because they often made up excuses to why they were doing something wrong, while women did that less.

Obviously, there is sexism, but there’s bullying on the internet no matter who you are. I’ve been bullied plenty, called all kinds of names, but since I’m a man, it’s not seen as special or assigned a label. I would even go so far as to say that feminist women are actually the ones who sometimes fall into being sexist, as well as some men, because they are more likely to ascribe intent to words or actions based on another’s gender, intent that isn’t actually there.

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