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 Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 14:46 Post subject: Teens who spend more time playing games are more sexist |
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Teens who spend more time playing games are more sexist — study
| Quote: | A new study has found a correlation between the time teenagers spent playing video games and sexist attitudes. However, no evidence has been provided showing that it's the games themselves that are reinforcing certain attitudes towards women.
"Sexist representations saturate advertising, television, and cinema. Video games are no exception," Laurent Begue of Grenoble Alps University, one of the authors of the paper, told AFP.
"Content analysis has shown that women are under-represented in popular video games. They have passive roles, they are princesses who need to be saved or secondary, sexualized objects of conquest."
The authors, whose study has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, randomly sampled answers from 13,250 students in schools in the French cities of Lyon and Grenoble, who agreed to participate in the survey.
As well as measuring how many hours a day the children, aged between 11 and 19, played games, the study also asked them about their TV viewing habits and attitude to religion and church attendance.
While watching TV seemed to have no impact, avid gamers were more likely to display sexist attitudes and those who are religious even more so. Boys were significantly more likely to exhibit misogyny than girls.
“The video game industry may find it appropriate to encourage an evolution in the way women are represented, because sexism on screen can have consequences which are not limited to the virtual world,” write the authors in their discussion of the results.
“Today, 48% of video game players are female and in addition to the development of sexist attitudes, the repeated exposure to biased female models on games produces body dissatisfaction among women, self-objectification, and eating disorders.”
The authors admit that the inquiry has “limitations in terms of assessing causality. It may be that individuals with sexist orientations spend more time playing video games.”
The authors attempted to control for some factors, such as socioeconomic status, gender, and age, trying to isolate the relationship between gaming and sexism. But in the end, they were not able to match up the sample groups for every factor, such as, for example, social conservatism in the family, which could be a better predictor of sexism than children playing Grand Theft Auto.
The sample group — with most schools opting out of the study —presented its own problems.
“Another limitation is the underrepresentation of some categories of schools in our sample, with a deficit in schools with a reputation for excellence or ‘general curriculum’ and the private schools.
Studies suggest that sexism may be endorsed more strongly in lower social classes, which are usually less represented in such schools. Such a sampling feature may have affected the results of the survey,” the authors write.
The question used to determine the supposed sexism of participants was also of limited scope. Students were given the statement: “A woman is made mainly for making and raising children,” and the more strongly they agreed with it, the more sexist they were adjudged to be.
It is not obvious how many popular games — even ones with buxom figures, and heroic male archetypes — encourage women to stay in the bedroom and kitchen, and it is even less clear how games promoting a traditional family lifestyle would produce eating disorders or self-objectification among women.
The authors themselves conceded that the question “represents a very specific dimension of sexism that hardly captures all possible forms of sexist thinking." |
https://www.rt.com/news/381267-video-games-sexism-study/
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harry_theone
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 14:49 Post subject: |
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I had already wondered where the negative articles about "Gamers" have gone lately.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 14:52 Post subject: |
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I'm sure they are.
I heard 1 in 1 gamers are rapists.
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 15:07 Post subject: |
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Oh, it's like those: ' ... give you cancer studies' Where the headline is so clickbaity and the study itself goes 'We don't really know' 
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Sin317
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 15:46 Post subject: |
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Nearly ever murderer, rapist or otherwise violent criminal has played a video game in their life!
It's right there guys, open your eyes!
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 15:51 Post subject: |
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I think tests such as these performed on teenagers should be illegal to publish as 'scientific/empirical' facts.
If all humans were completely identical, with the exact same exposure to external stimuli from a-z in every way, you could indeed make assumptions based on the presence or lack of item X or activity Y.
It is a typical hit-job piece.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 15:55 Post subject: |
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This is such fucking bullshit already. Games do not enforce the creation of stereotypes, otherwise fatass male gamers would be swallowed by depression because they are not built like Duke Nukem.
Seriously.
These feminists are fucking everything up. First it was movies. Now it is games. You can hardly make jokes nowadays about women, because that is a form of suppression. These assholes have no sense of humor. Fucking tryhard anusdwellers.
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Kaltern
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 16:15 Post subject: |
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In an unrelated study, researchers in the US found that playing games that show breasts, skimpy clothing, and anything that could be considered titillation, not only causes cancer of every type, but is also responsible for teenage pregnancies and excessive drug use.
However, playing games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield and Ghost Recon have show that boys grow larger penises, have a higher intellect, and are more likely to join the Services, and thus become real members of society.
(these studies may not actually exist)
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 16:33 Post subject: |
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| Kaltern wrote: | In an unrelated study, researchers in the US found that playing games that show breasts, skimpy clothing, and anything that could be considered titillation, not only causes cancer of every type, but is also responsible for teenage pregnancies and excessive drug use.
However, playing games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield and Ghost Recon have show that boys grow larger penises, have a higher intellect, and are more likely to join the Services, and thus become real members of society.
(these studies may not actually exist) |
Heh "Ender's Game" or what that bit of fiction was called, guy thought he was playing a simulator or what it was but it was actually real so perhaps in a few years some pro-competitive gamer could probably do something similar the way unmanned drone combat seems to be heading or how to say.
(Just need to add the UT announcer voice or similar for particular good results to keep the "gamer" enticed..)
EDIT:
Guess the AC-130 gunship mission in COD4 actually already showed a bit how that would work out, point & click basically, just some distant moving blips on the screen who about to become a whole lot less moving.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 16:50 Post subject: |
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This "study"...
1 and 2 are still amazing.
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 17:48 Post subject: |
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Did Derpware sponsor this article? 
1) Lenovo Legion 7 (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3080 16Gb, 32Gb DDR4, SSD 1TB +2TB
2) SFFPC (streaming via Moonlight+ Sunshine)
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kumkss
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ixigia
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| Posted: Sun, 19th Mar 2017 21:19 Post subject: |
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If only we had a Useless Gaming Void subsection for such delicate topic, along with the one containing Fox News' studies showing irrefutable links between mass killers and video games. Then a thread dedicated to VICE's insightful documentaries about virtual rape in GTA to expand the dialogue even further, and to conclude, the holy trinity Kotaku/Polygon/IGN-centric place for trustworthy unfiltered general gaming-related opinions/views and reviews!
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dethy
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Hmmm. On my team, I hired 3 women and 2 men as sys admins. #AmIDoingItRight?
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| Posted: Mon, 20th Mar 2017 01:38 Post subject: |
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A lot of perverted men here.
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Sounds like something a fucking woman would say.
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dethy
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| Posted: Mon, 20th Mar 2017 14:32 Post subject: |
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| FadeToBlack wrote: | | dethy wrote: | | Hmmm. On my team, I hired 3 women and 2 men as sys admins. #AmIDoingItRight? |
You give women less salary than men are getting, right you sexist pig.  |
I haz no control over salary, that's HR dealio.
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