idk ladies...i mean if we are going to try and crusade against every pervert, rude and uncouth neckbeard in the online gaming world

CCP can't fix the dynamic that exists between the genders, but they can work on the population disparity so that the morons/louts harassing women will think twice when there's a greater # of women that will call them out for what kind of people they are.

And yet, oddly enough, as has been mentioned multiple times on this very thread, part of the problem is how rarely anyone else is telling those jerks to STFU and just shoot some stuff. And, once again, we have concern for the feelings of people who are causing the problem rather than any interest in stopping the problem.

If EVE can only be an "engaging fantasy world" when a player daring to identify themselves as having double-X chromosomes makes themselves a target for harassment, I question what qualifies as fun for you. And, frankly, if calling people out for blatantly discriminatory behavior gives them a "legitimate reason to dislike" me... who cares? They are already being a waste of biomass with their illegitimate reasons.

Maybe once, just to try it out, we could tell the guys being asshats to HTFU and just accept that they might have to fly their internet spaceships with some female players without freaking out about it - and make their own damn 'sammiches'?

That's an awareness issue. Just like most men simply don't consider that parking lots and garages are tense and dangerous places for women, or don't register that the look on a woman's face when you get in the elevator with them is one of terror at being raped, because that happens too, because it's just not our experience of things. Once you're aware of these things, it becomes much easier not to say or do something that gets misinterpreted the way your question was.

CCP Eterne, how is this post not inappropriate as well? More misogyny.

I don't know who you are.

Message me then. We'll see if you know as much about me as you seem to think.

It certainly would have helped the situation. Like I said, there were two perspectives with no overlap, and the whole story was sad.

Awareness of perspective is not "walking on eggshells," it's awareness of perspective--empathy, if you prefer. Parking lots, elevators and garages are scary places for women to encounter men because of crimes men commit against women in those places, and so their caution is entirely rational. It's also easy to defuse, or at least lessen, that caution by a) not committing those crimes, and b) not acting like you're about to. This is just decency, akin to not making loud percussive noises around veterans with PTSD. There are no eggshells involved.

Apology accepted, I think....

Women are actually better shooters than men.

Which has little to do why women are in fact better shots. Prime reason they are is something physical -- they have shallower respiration. Which is key to shoot tight groups. Unlike in games, in rifle matches it's tight groups that qualify. Headshots only matter in games, usually made by devs if given a rifle to use, would be a hazard at any range!