Misogyny, Bigotry, and the Gaming Community

[KLAMarine]

TallSilhouette said:

KLAMarine said:

"A site like this can count its openly female members on one hand (afaik). Is it time to admit that these problems have been baked right into the culture itself? How do we fix these intrinsic issues?"

>Sounds like you consider the imbalance between male-female membership on vgchartz to be a bad thing. You list it alongside ills like sexual harassment and misogyny. Do you consider it a bad thing and if so, why?

The imbalance in isolation isn't inherently bad, but considering the toxicity in the gaming community it's not exactly a stretch to surmise that female gamers often don't feel welcome to participate and be themselves on sites like this. VGC itself doesn't seem very toxic but the disparity still suggests part of a wider trend where female gamers will avoid or stay anonymous in places like this due to bad experiences.

Considering online forums like this one are generally open to the public, could you point me to some interactions wherein female gamers receive backlash for being themselves and thus are discouraged from participating?