End Online Misogyny

Please do your part to end online misogyny. Don't automatically presume everyone online is male if they don't have a feminine nickname.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• online
• misogyny
• female
• male
• gender
• sexist
• sexism
• feminist
• xtranormal

[EtherealAura]

I have noticed this as well. It's particularly bad in certain contexts that generally have majority male populations - for example, video games. The worst is when I (politely) correct someone who used the wrong pronoun only to be _told_ by that person that I am a guy simply because I am either A) playing a video game, or B) talking about one. Fortunately, that doesn't happen too often, and I have noticed more people trying not to assume. It still seems fairly common though.

[enigmatically]

@EtherealAura there are tons of female gamers, myself included.

[Survivingthe8th]

Being a girl, I tend to assume most people as girls before I actually see them, and I assume this would be the same for guys. NEVER ASSUME, it makes an ass out of u and me

[enigmatically]

Thanks for sharing. I got online in 1995 and there weren't a lot of other girls online in most chat rooms. So I just never made any assumptions although back then the ratio of female to male was probably 1/20. Now that everything online is so mainstream the ratio is probably close to 50% which makes it even more silly to make assumptions.

[bluepenguins2709]

A couple people here on youtube have assumed that I was a man. I have never made assumptions about gender by someone's username. I just don't see what's so hard about saying "they" instead of "he"/"she".

[vivalaleta]

You know I am tired of making a vaid argument in some debate just to have some ass hole say, "Oh yeah? Well....you're FAT!" I'll have likely males on my side and they never get that kind of personal insult. (I am NOT fat). I've never even considered the fact you of what you're objecting to. I think it's just part of all language - whenever we don't know the sex of something we revert to "he". I'm not saying it's right.

[GTCism]

Man, they just don't stop these weird feminist screw ups. It would be more accurate to shout to everyone stop the online Misandry, male bashing is alive and well on the internet as it is most ever where else. However, men unlike women are not so caught up in their gender that they forget their humanity. Bottom line, the known world is fed up about hearing this feminist garbage, stop it!

[Abobojo]

shut up

[Akadra]

Oh jeez! People don't recognize you are a female immediantly on the INTERNET? WHERE EVERYTHING IS TEXT, NUMBERS AND PIXELS?

Jesus fucking christ.

[loqutor]

Misogyny, n. [miss-aww-jinn-knee] Hatred of or contempt for women. From the Greek "miso", meaning "contempt", and "gynos" meaning woman.

I fail to see how this is about misogyny.

[Hzqi]

@enigmatically

To be honest, for a start I make no presumption, EVEN about the ones WITH an overtly female name. It could be an overweight guy named Buford living in a trailer behind a council tip somwhere. Number 2, nothing would make me more jolly than for women to start adopting nomenclature that doesn't inherently project their gender. I have this discussion often with women, about some of the things that rub guys wrong, and also hinders women's art. Always making gender an issue.

[Hzqi]

@enigmatically

There are tons of successful pro gamers. Females not included.

;p psyche.

[enigmatically]

@Hzqi LMAO

[Hzqi]

@enigmatically

Wow, get a real problem to whine about.

[Telepresent]

I don't think you can call not thinking about someone's gender and defaulting to the male 'misogyny'. Misogyny requires that one KNOWS you are a woman. Not thinking is just not thinking.

[Quintapus]

Mistaking a female for a male online is NOT misogyny. Read a Lexicon, idiots!