Double Standards

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Alice, that entire line of conditioning is nothing but archaic gender discrimination. It's objectifying women into little more than items to be collected.

If you want something, go for it. I wouldn't mind being chased after. (I'm taken, but I'd still be flattered.)

Exactly. The idea that a woman pursuing a man constitutes her being "too forward" or a whore is based around the idea that the woman is secondary to the man. The woman should be by the man's side, agreeing, not speaking for herself. Not doing as she pleases. Waiting for a man to come select her.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shonos

Anyways, enough of this emo bullshit, here's a double standard I haven't really seen mentioned. I'm kind of surprised too since there are so many gamers here. But the whole Male/Female gamer thing. A male gamer is sad or pathetic, maybe even a nerd. But the moment a female picks up a game controller trumpets go off and everyone screams in amazement. Like it's so rare that a female would play games.

Not only that, you have the whole 'skill' thing. A male gamer is always better at gaming than a female gamer. Or a female gamer can only play easy or cute games. Though It's not really as bad as it was years ago. This has been dieing off alot over the years.

While the male stereotype of what a gamer is has all but died off with the PlayStation generation making gaming a much more mainstream thing, the female stereotypes do still persist. I've encountered everything from hardcore FPS female fans to girls who act like they enjoy games to try and land the guy they're attracted to. Sorry, but methodical button mashing (can't be TOO obvious) on your crush's fighting game of choice doesn't make you a gamer. An ex of mine was obsessed with RPGs and proclaimed herself a gamer, yet when I got her Ico for Christmas, it went untouched after she ran around in it for 5 minutes and couldn't figure out what to do.

I'm not going to generalize, but if a girl plays solely RPGs for the reason that they lack any sort of competent hand-eye coordination, they shouldn't be referring to themself as a gamer. If you have no understanding of the details of the game past "things with higher numbers work better" and have no desire to learn said details, you aren't a "girl gamer". That's like claiming you're a race car driver because you drive a car.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by russ

Why here you go, enjoy!

Sublime.

Originally Posted by agreatguy6

Then of course, there's the infamous: Niggah problem.

Black people can say it, whites cant. What's with that?

Because "Nigger" is a derogatory word from "negro".

"Nigga" is, from what I've been told by black friends of mine, a mockery of the derogatory word. Meant to mock the oppressive offensiveness of it. So a white person saying "nigga" isn't the exact oppressive version of the word, but it's usually taken just the same.

What made our ancestors think it was alright to have ownership over another person is beyond me.

Oh yeah, the same thing that had us leaving another country claiming religious oppression only to invade another country and force religion on the natives there.

Ignorance.

How ya doing, buddy?