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[–] some_guy 20 points 11 months ago

Regrettably, can confirm. I’ve been so much more docile since finding a partner. I wish I’d always been this way.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Most women won't even accept a strange man into their activities. That's why you don't hear about this happening to men. Because unwanted sexual advances from women on men in women's friends circles definitely happen I can tell you from first hand experience. And women tend to be very insensitive to men's sexuality and not only encourage it but pressure you accept the advances because men "go for anything" so it shouldn't make a difference to you.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have never seen this actually happen and I have a lot of experience with gaming with randos (I'm old and I also started a gaming club in college that had over 75 members with at least 15 of them being female). I've been playing MTG and D&D at local shops for decades now and I've never once seen other dudes simping or fighting over a girl at the table.

Not saying it can't happen, nerds are nerds and do often lack social skills. But from my experience (and from what I've heard from my female gamer friends), this has got to be a rare situation.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

I always have to remind myself that I was introduced to and raised in nerddom from my godmother. Everything was through the lens of her curated tastes.

So when I hit puberty later in life all the deranged horniness suddenly clicked in me as MY problem since for me it wasn't normalized. Playing D&D and MMOs just didn't have that foundation, so I could compare.

Thanks godmother for keeping me somewhat normal. I've been often alienated from gamers due to my application of basic respect and sometimes just plain apathy towards women.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

Would have been nice if more of the women in mmorpgs I played growing up were like that. Too many guilds were torn apart intentionally by women who damn well knew what they were doing and knew that at least one of your staff members was easy to twist around their fingers.

Edit: For anyone seething, women are people and they deserve respect like anyone else, but they are also people, and some of them are assholes.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah this is the flipside to OP. Don't know why you're getting down voted. Women can be misanthropic trolls just as much as men can.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was in a guild on a mmorpg that was predominantly women, and there was a squabble between a couple women.

I said, "Settle down, you both have very big penises." One responded, "Uh, were girls." I replied, "Then why are you having a dick measuring contest?" It didn't go over particularly well, but the bickering died down.

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[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

We did it on purpose to protect our virginity. No girls allowed in the boy's club!

Source: I was there.

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