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Why don't more women play Eve Online?

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Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#481 - 2015-02-11 02:06:54 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
Primary This Rifter wrote:
"You made an attractive female character, and that's ironic and hilarious for some reason."
O.O

That was in response to this:
Marsha Mallow wrote:
You seem to be saying girls should pretend not to be girls in EvE in order to be accepted - which is faintly hilarious given the size of your chest.
Kaely Tanniss
Black Lotus Society.
Something Really Pretentious
#482 - 2015-02-11 02:21:48 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:

Tons of women play EVE. Unfortunately it's not very many.


That's quite the large assumption.


Uh-oh...a big woman joke. Why do people assume any woman who games has to be 250 lbs and ugly? lol Shocked

If I had a nickel for every time someone said women don't play eve, I'd have a bag of nickels to whack the next person who said it..
Jenshae Chiroptera
#483 - 2015-02-11 02:27:32 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
Primary This Rifter wrote:

No, what makes you a shrill, whingy harpy is demanding that other people change their behavior instead of finding people who are ultimately going to be a better fit for you anyway.


I'm going to save that quote and post it every time you do one of your shrill whiny posts demanding that other players cater to your personal vision of the game.

I sense I'll be using it a lot.

Mr Epeen Cool
I too shall save it but being one of the shrill, whingy harpies, I notice other people, especially particular individuals less. P

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#484 - 2015-02-11 02:30:13 UTC
Kaely Tanniss wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:

Tons of women play EVE. Unfortunately it's not very many.


That's quite the large assumption.


Uh-oh...a big woman joke. Why do people assume any woman who games has to be 250 lbs and ugly? lol Shocked


Possibly because the thought that the person that beat you is also better looking and thinner than you are is just too much to handle.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#485 - 2015-02-11 02:48:29 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Possibly because the thought that the person that beat you is also better looking and thinner than you are is just too much to handle.
Not to mention the long luscious hair, the sparkling blue eyes, their exemplary taste in decorating, such as a pink room, glitter mouse, lace around their screen and using the same urinals as you. P

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#486 - 2015-02-11 03:01:43 UTC
Sera Kor-Azor wrote:
Firstly, how would you know whether a player was a female or not?

Secondly, why should it matter?

Thirdly, I remember the first day I joined Factional warfare. The word R-A-P-E was used quite frequently to describe defeat of one player by another. As a member of HER majesty's HOLY and righteous 'good guy' boy scout Militia, I took offense to this. Predictably, I was laughed at.

So maybe, a female player has better things to do than listen to a bunch of teenaged boys blow up each other's pixel spaceships while listening to the word 'R-A-P-E' being used in such a casual and dismissive manner.

I did meet one woman who quit not only EVE, but online video games in general specifically for this reason, namely the casual misogyny. You get enough of it in the workplace as well as the streets, you don't need to pay $20 a month to hear it in your own home as well.
Good post.

I used to tell people that I am an AI escaped from Google Labs and refused to give them any gender identification.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Michael Ruckert
Hohere Kavallerie-Kommando
#487 - 2015-02-11 03:19:59 UTC
With the ongoing feminization of men, this issue will eventually be resolved.

"No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy." - Laurence Olivier
Memphis Baas
#488 - 2015-02-11 03:20:08 UTC
Sera Kor-Azor wrote:
Firstly, how would you know whether a player was a female or not?

Voice comms.

Quote:
Secondly, why should it matter?

It doesn't matter.

Quote:

Thirdly, I remember the first day I joined Factional warfare. The word R-A-P-E was used quite frequently to describe defeat of one player by another. As a member of HER majesty's HOLY and righteous 'good guy' boy scout Militia, I took offense to this. Predictably, I was laughed at.

So maybe, a female player has better things to do than listen to a bunch of teenaged boys blow up each other's pixel spaceships while listening to the word 'R-A-P-E' being used in such a casual and dismissive manner.

I did meet one woman who quit not only EVE, but online video games in general specifically for this reason, namely the casual misogyny. You get enough of it in the workplace as well as the streets, you don't need to pay $20 a month to hear it in your own home as well.

So teenaged BOYS were talking about sexually assaulting each other (anally or orally, one would assume), and that somehow became misogyny against the one woman who quit not just this game, but because it's everywhere online she quit the whole internet.

How do you feel about other commonly used internet jargon, for example mofo, fap, or the f-bomb?
Shailagh
6Six6Six6Six
#489 - 2015-02-11 03:55:29 UTC
Whenever i make a new toon (always female btw) i spend like 10-20mins in the character creator with them only wearing underwear and zooming in and out and rotating the body around.

I wish you didnt have to wear shirts/pants on ur toons when u take the pic also.

I wish more girls played this game too

If u female, hit my evemail up. M/21/6'6" 9" 180lbs xoxo
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#490 - 2015-02-11 05:23:50 UTC
Kaely Tanniss wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:

Tons of women play EVE. Unfortunately it's not very many.


That's quite the large assumption.


Uh-oh...a big woman joke. Why do people assume any woman who games has to be 250 lbs and ugly? lol Shocked


Because I used to go to cons, so that isn't an assumption. It's the general rule, although I freely agree that there are always exceptions.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#491 - 2015-02-11 05:27:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
I'm OK with women in EVE until they start tweeting about why they get so much attention, what's the problem, etc.

Anyway, does anyone know why most women's femme avatars are ugly? They of all people...

Help, I can't download EVE

President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub

PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
Jenshae Chiroptera
#492 - 2015-02-11 05:35:28 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
I'm OK with women in EVE until they start tweeting about why they get so much attention, what's the problem, etc.
Anyway, does anyone know why most women's femme avatars are ugly? They of all people...
... less Hollywood fake looking? Blink

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#493 - 2015-02-11 05:40:32 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Kaely Tanniss wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:

Tons of women play EVE. Unfortunately it's not very many.


That's quite the large assumption.


Uh-oh...a big woman joke. Why do people assume any woman who games has to be 250 lbs and ugly? lol Shocked


Because I used to go to cons, so that isn't an assumption. It's the general rule, although I freely agree that there are always exceptions.


Fat neckbeards making fat women jokes. Look at any Fanfest footage to see examples of the type of guys that make these jokes. I cringe when watching these morbidly obese mouth breathers waddling between events stuffing soda and Twinkies into their gaping maws.

This thread just keeps getting better and better.

Please continue.

Mr Epeen Cool
Jenshae Chiroptera
#494 - 2015-02-11 05:49:29 UTC
There are some skinny neckbeards that forget to eat and their scraggly hair looks more like they glued it on from shavings they took from down below. Blink

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#495 - 2015-02-11 06:09:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
I, too, enjoy Fanfest footage of my well-fed brethren.

On the plane to Iceland: "are you headed to EVE Fanfest?"

"how did you know?"

Help, I can't download EVE

President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub

PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#496 - 2015-02-11 06:23:23 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:

Fat neckbeards making fat women jokes.


I'm 6'2" and 205lbs, but thanks for projecting. I'm surprised you took as long as you did to enter the thread, normally I'd have expected to see you biting ankles on page 1.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#497 - 2015-02-11 06:33:47 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
Anyway, does anyone know why most women's femme avatars are ugly? They of all people...


this guy.

this ****ing guy right here.
Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#498 - 2015-02-11 06:51:09 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
Anyway, does anyone know why most women's femme avatars are ugly? They of all people...

Women don't compensate anything by making fake avatars? Every time i see those ti** large enough to fed dozens of babies all i see is man with problems.

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville
Jenshae Chiroptera
#499 - 2015-02-11 06:55:18 UTC
Jeremiah Saken wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
Anyway, does anyone know why most women's femme avatars are ugly? They of all people...

Women don't compensate anything by making fake avatars? Every time i see those ti** large enough to fed dozens of babies all i see is man with problems.
Can we start talking about how male avatars are often as macho, stern, angry and such as possible with the sharpest features?

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#500 - 2015-02-11 06:56:34 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:


I'm 6'2" and 205lbs,


Of course you are.

On a related note, I was Jesus in a past life. Truth.

Mr Epeen Cool