Sexism in the gaming world

Sexism in the gaming world

Sexism has existed in the game world as long as both genders have been playing video games, it is one of those few controversial subjects in the gaming world that a lot of the time goes unnoticed and unfortunately unchecked.

Most men who have been caught making sexist comments towards woman in the online gaming world claim they were simply making harmless banter and joking around, if this is true then it is as equally as bad as if they were purposely making sexist comments.
On the other side of all this woman say they do notice the negative comments being made and a lot of the time just brush them off and don't bother repodning to who said them in the first place, a lot also said that the problem itself is due to the design of some mmo games where woman are depicted as sexual objects a lot of the time, as well as some actions they can perform in a game such as dancing in an mmo, is highly sexualized.

Thankfully there is hope to this issue that some games have been tackling head on to try and resolve.
One game in particular is in fact a game called leuge of legends, where a person's gender is not disclosed and when playing players are unable to tell the gender of there fellow team mates or enemy team mates, as well as that there is no in chat options and the typing options filter out any negative banter, this takes away most negative ways bad players can negatively go about saying awful things, this is a tactic most other could and should use, it works and makes the game more enjoyable for everyone, hopefully we'll be seeing this tactic used in more player based games in the future.