[HN Gopher] One of Norway's biggest CS players tries playing und...
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       One of Norway's biggest CS players tries playing under a female
       alias
        
       Author : kasperni
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-05-10 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | xenadu02 wrote:
       | Funny that some people commenting on the video immediately claim
       | it is fake. This kind of abuse was extremely common when CS was
       | in perpetual beta and voice chat first started being a thing.
       | There is clearly a subset of online gamers, especially in FPS
       | games, who cross the line from joking/hazing into abuse against
       | anyone with a female name or voice.
       | 
       | I sometimes wonder what makes these people knee-jerk deny such
       | obvious behavior anyone can observe?
        
       | okwubodu wrote:
       | At some point I realized this is why my girl friends almost never
       | play online games without us queued with them :(
        
       | Havoc wrote:
       | oh wow that is much worse than I was expecting :(
        
       | abridgett wrote:
       | Might want to change the subtitles from "that was sick" to "that
       | was disgusting" just to prevent anyone misinterpreting that
       | (unintentionally or otherwise) as "sick" is slang for "excellent"
       | in some places.
        
         | michaericalribo wrote:
         | In context, it's pretty unambiguous he's uncomfortable and
         | doesn't think it was an excellent experience
        
       | 8bitsrule wrote:
       | Warning: toxic masculinity turned-up to 11.
        
         | specialist wrote:
         | Yes and: This is straight up misogyny. As I understand it,
         | "toxic masculinity" is stuff that harms males, like telling
         | boys that real men don't cry, which then has all sorts of
         | knock-on effects.
        
       | tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote:
       | In one FPS game I picked a new name that was neutral or male, but
       | people misread it as "foxy" and assumed I'm a woman. In half an
       | hour I got several dumb comments from guys over voice chat. The
       | abuse towards women in games is intense.
        
       | K0nserv wrote:
       | As bad as the situation already is(and it's bad) the lack of
       | action on Valve's side is particularly depressing.
       | 
       | People invest a significant amount of money into their steam
       | accounts(by purchasing skins and games) and targetting folks with
       | some serious bans would help curb this behaviour. For example, a
       | four month ban on the first offence, a year on the second, and
       | lifetime on the third seems pretty reasonable and would surely
       | have a significant impact.
        
         | thatguy0900 wrote:
         | You want people to be banned from the storefront valve instead
         | of just the game cs? That is very extreme. Would valve be
         | extending that to other games? Why do it on just their own?
        
       | joebob42 wrote:
       | I know biggest basically makes sense and means most popular here,
       | but I can't get the image of all the cs players lining up to
       | compare heights out of my head.
        
       | SOTGO wrote:
       | The treatment of female CS players is sickening. Every public
       | lobby that I've been in where someone had an identifiably female
       | voice eventually ended in harassment and sexist statements.
        
       | sharken wrote:
       | Great initiative to show how bad things really are.
       | 
       | Gaming where voice is enabled without admins to supervise it,
       | will degenerate into this nearly every time.
       | 
       | Sad state of affairs indeed.
        
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