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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.04 03:07:00 -
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I wonder if the number of women playing EVE is so low because of the number of times they get on voice chat and hear nothing but phallus jokes and requests for sandwiches? Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.05 05:21:00 -
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Gallowmere Rorschach wrote:Lady Areola Fappington wrote:stuff I decided that I couldn't take this seriously after looking at your character name. I almost feel obligated to throw out a "**** or gtfo".
Not only the character name but the corp! My "serious or troll" compass is immeasurably confused on this one.
I want to believe! Smells like a troll!
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 04:04:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Xeraphi wrote:We don't need to attract women to the game we need to stop driving them (us) away from it. That's like saying "we need to eradicate racism". Pretty noble goal, but meaningless platitudes aren't going to do it. The real perpetrators, the ones you're really hoping to address, will never see this thread. Nor will they ever be interested in having an intellectual discussion. You just can't use logic to defeat someone who's so willfully ignorant of it.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 04:19:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:You just stereotyped all men who play this game, btw. Moreso than anyone in this thread has done to women. You didn't even imply, you outright stated that men aren't capable of knowing the difference between NPC banter and real people, and that men are apparently stupid enough for the 5 total lines of dialogue in which this is mentioned to effect our entire outlook on gender relations.
The only bigot here is you.
Well, there is also you deliberately misinterpreting words. It is clear from my first reading of what Xeraphi wrote that the lines of dialogue are designed for men: the phrase "sissy girl" we laugh off as clueless noob smack talk because that is the kind of language we used while growing up: in my school the weaker boys were labelled "wussy girl's blouse".
That kind of smack talk sounds ridiculous to a girl unless she pretends to be a boy for a moment. That her gender is used as a slur sends a clear signal to the girl: "you aren't welcome here."
As women, these girls have years of life experience providing new contexts in which to interpret these lines, but the message is the same: "you are alien, you do not belong."
No one is actually suggesting that those lines of smack talk make male players suddenly decide to be sexist or misogynist. Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 05:12:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Tch, see, I knew I should have put /sarcasm in there.
She said, outright, that the attitude of men in this game is a result of the tutorial saying "sissy girl". I'd like to think most men have more cognitive ability than that though.
That is correct. She said the guys pick up on the attitude of the NPCs. She didn't say that the NPCs turn players into sexist pigs. This is the locker room vs outside world situation: some folks will chuckle at the weak, stereotypical dialogue. Others will see the NPC banter and figure that it's okay to behave that way here. Then you get corp chat and voice comms where people get further inoculated through the echo chamber where the "make me a sammich" jokes fly thick and fast, then they forget to turn that behaviour off when they hit the outside world again.
But for the people who are the butt of the joke, the joke wasn't funny to start with and the echo chamber of locker room humour doesn't get funnier over time.
In the meantime there are the players who just don't appreciate that kind of humour who avoid interactions with the boys clubs where possible, and are further punished by having very few women playing the game meaning the entire game become a stifling sausage feast.
And as for sarcasm, it helps to label it as such beforehand: attempting to recon as sarcasm makes it look like you goofed and are trying to coverup. Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.06.06 05:42:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:And I can guarantee you, that any "sexist" things you may hear on voicechat, did not start with less than 10 lines of NPC dialogue. "sammich" jokes, didn't evolve from things a tutorial pirate says.
The implication of the NPC chat is, "this attitude is acceptable here." It is not the NPC chat that imbued them with the attitude. The NPC chat validated the attitude.
As for what happens when locker room humour is allowed to dominate in corp and voice chat: the message you are sending is quite clear: "we don't want other cultures here." Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 05:53:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:If they do that, as Ruze mentioned above, it's a learned trait designed to perform damage control based on previous bad experiences. That's just how humans behave.
Once bitten...
The attribute you are describing is "generalisation."
The attitude you are describing is "sexism" because the attitude is, "every time we bring women into the group, we get trouble. So obviously women are trouble, because we never have this trouble bringing men into the group." Because after all, it couldn't be the group of men that are the root of the problem because they don't know how to keep it in their pants.
Thus the argument of "it's just generalisation as a way to protect the group from danger" is actually backwards. The group can't handle the alien. The group of men can't handle their own emotions: infatuation, fascination, jealousy, envy, etc, so they avoid women. It is not the alien's job to fit in, it is the group's job to be more tolerant of aliens. No amount of diplomacy on the part of women is going to stop immature men behaving immaturely.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 05:57:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:I'd debate that actually. It's a far cry from just saying upfront "no girls", to actually still having the interviews to give someone a chance in the first place..
The mock interview doesn't stop the policy being "no girls" if the preset opinion is that girls aren't going to be accepted. The only purpose would be to provide the outward appearance of giving women a chance, to avoid the negative attention of the GMs. Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 06:16:00 -
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Yeah, Hellcats kinda went *poof* when Mynxee left the game. She is most certainly one of the "instigator" type that CCP Seagull is so fond of. Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 06:29:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:And once again, you reveal your misandry. You are the outsider. Why should any group be anything but wary of someone who can, and comes from, a group that in their own personal experiences causes trouble?
It is not the woman that causes trouble when the men in the group fall over themselves to help her and then get bitter when they see others getting attention too. In the cases I have witnessed, the "drama" is entirely manufactured by the men competing for the attention of the woman. In a few cases the woman is deliberately fomenting strife because she just loves watching the world burn.
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:"the men can't keep it in their pants"? So of course, it can't be the kind of drama caused by the person who has done their best to jump on me for saying I don't tolerate people who try to censor me in chat, and had a bunch of people back her up on that, right?
Being asked to refrain from kitchen jokes, "**** or GTFO" or sammich comments, is just as acceptable form of censorship as your workmates asking you to not use the F word or C word in the office. Your stubbornness and refusal to adjust your attitude for the sake of group cohesion is where the drama comes from. This woman plus the people who support her were obviously trying to improve the environment. Perhaps some of your friends liked having women in the group more than they liked the freedom of being able to say "get your ***** ass in the kitchen and make me some pie!"
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:The mere assumption that the theoretical female is always innocent, and is being oppressed, is deliberate self victimization mentality at it's finest. There assumption that men are the ones always at fault because of their "jealousy, envy etc," exposes your actual prejudice.
Your assumption that I am assuming women to be always the innocent victim reveals a lot about your attitude towards women.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 08:51:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:See, what all that means is, that if you are joining a group of people, let's say, ten of them.
You have a problem with how, let's say, 8 of them behave.
Are they the problem, or are you?
You are, because you came into a group and are asking 8 people to change how they behaved before you got there, just for your sake.
Let us look at a hypothetical example. there are 8 people in your group who like telling off-colour jokes including ones about large breasted men, or things to do with hot grits, or how funny dead babies are. Let us imagine for a moment that I lost a baby to a misdiagnosed food allergy and as a result I don't like baby jokes. The 8 whose behaviour I don't like are my problem. I will ask them to stop with the dead baby jokes, "hey guys, I lost a baby, so those baby jokes are really not cool, could you can them please?". If they tell me to get stuffed, I will leave. It is really that simple. You can't then go and generalise that I was "the problem". The problem is that there are people who tell baby jokes and someone who doesn't appreciate baby jokes. The solutions available include stopping the baby jokes, or losing the person who doesn't like those jokes. No, I am not saying you were actually telling dead baby jokes, this was only a hypothetical example.
What if I join your group of 10 and I have a problem with how you behave, and two of your friends say that they don't like it when you behave that way, but it never bothered them enough to speak up about it? As another hypothetical example, you might have a habit of using the C-word to describe people you don't like, and until I spoke up about it the other guys in your group just accepted that you have a potty mouth, and as the leader of the group they chose not to challenge your status. Am I the problem or are you?
What is the cutoff percentage for the number of people in your own group to speak up about an issue that I, the newcomer, raise, before the problem is the group and not me? Or is the problem always me because noone raised the issue until I spoke up?
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 09:04:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:The gist of this is: Find the aspects of the game she finds fun, and work on those.
For some people, there is a sense of abandoned promise when we go through the steps of creating the character, then find that there is nothing to do with that character for the rest of the game! There is no interaction at the character level, so we can't even use EVE as a fancy IMVU. There is just our character standing or sitting in the captain's quarters.
As for logistics, I happen to find logistics quite rewarding. I also play healer style characters in fantasy RPGs, and I almost always resort to Sentinel class in Mass Effect because I suck at FPS. I am a logi in DUST too. But you are right about trying different things to see what people like. The catch is that some people want more from a sci-fi game than only flying around in spaceships.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 14:04:00 -
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Seniae 0n3 wrote:CCP Eterne wrote:I have cleaned up this topic and am unlocking it. Refrain from anything that's sexist or the like and we'll be fine. The whole discussion by its self is sexist
Well GǪ you can't discuss sexism without pointing out some of the more egregious displays of such  Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 14:23:00 -
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0Lona 0ltor wrote:Walking in station & char customization would attract more female gamers as well as more integration with station enviroment and inter avatar interaction. Call me a sexist pig but I bet a lot of girls would be intrested in Space Barbie while a lot of boys are intrested in space war currently eve is 99% space war & only 1% space barbie.
There are also men who would like the game more if it had space barbies. And not for the obvious reasons of "they're gay" or "cheap ****" either, but because they want to experiment with fashion, or interact with people as a person rather than a spaceship. There are forms of interaction besides shooting each other, after all :) Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 14:27:00 -
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Lady Areola Fappington wrote:Here's how you get more women into EVE...continue iterating and fixing the sandbox, adding more features that go along with flying spaceships. That'll attract the women to EVE, who want to play an EVE game.
With the important bit being, "don't treat people differently just because they have two X chromosomes."
And that doesn't stop me still wanting space barbies :P
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 14:42:00 -
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I bet if you made a common room for capsuleers to mingle in, which also had a window to space so you could see what's happening outside the station, people would be falling over themselves to get to that "Enter Captains Quarters" button  Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |

Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.06 22:28:00 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:And to your last point. I'm not defending anyone's right to be a **** to anyone else (although that is still their right as players, let the mods fall where they may). What I'm saying is, that I can understand someone wanting to remove a disruption from their social order.
Except that what you've said previously is that you bar women entirely because of a few bad experiences, rather than removing people who "disrupt the social order". Which makes you sexist because you are discriminating against people based on gender.
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:he people who literally can't be asked to knock off something that is directed(there's the key word) at another person, needs to grow up some. But when it's "Person X said '*****' once, I want him gone cause that's sexist!!11!", no, I don't back that kind of person up.
Comments don't have to be directed at a particular person to be offensive. Refer to my previous comments about bad taste humour: in many cases the offended party will ask for those to stop, and this is not an attempt to start drama. Your choice to classify it as a "it's you or me" ultimatum is another of your opinions which people are railing against.
You certainly do have the right to choose who you associate with. Your decision to express your choice as "no women allowed" has marked you as a sexist. It's as black and white as that. You then defend your decision by claiming that women are trouble-makers, only making the situation worse.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2013.06.07 22:58:00 -
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Echo Echoplex wrote:There are biological factors hardwired into both sexes beyond the physical. Gender differences are hardwired too, like it or not. Women make children so they were hardwired to be nurturers. Men were wired for aggression simply because as the (generally) stronger sex they were set up to hunt and fight. Where the struggles come into play is in refuting it because you think that means settling for it.
Do you have any scientific support for that statement, or is this just what you believe to be true?
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