Gamer gate proved that sexism in the gaming industry was a thing and was disgustingly widespread. Unfortunately the anonymity of the internet pushes people to say things and act in ways they wouldn't in a real life crowd situation. Your sister certainly does not deserve in any way that kind of interaction when doing something which most of us do to relax, have fun and disappear from the real world for a while. All I can say is that she really needs to game with friends, perhaps join a clan. The Dames of Destiny are always welcoming and you can find regional shoot offs of the clan. For Destiny there are also sites like https://www.the100.io/ which will have better selection of custom matchmaking than randoms you may meet on the lfg sites. I will say that I met both ladies in our clan through LFG and they neither had a bad time with the random group we met in, nor have I encountered since. Still they're our clan mates now and we'll have their back in any party, game whether we're in there or not. Better believe that anyone insulting any clan mates is going to get Destiny and PSN reports sent in. Hey it's the most you can do over the internet and aside from eradicating Hive, Fallen, Vex and Cabal from the known galaxy..... I'm actually a passive guy.

I'm a female gamer and I can honestly say I have met about 3-5 guys online who I enjoy playing with enough to use my mic with. For the other guys who don't know I'm female, they will look at my name and think I'm male. Mockery and bullying is real on both sides of the table, but whenever I get mocked for my gender, all I wanted to do was shut off my Xbox and cry. Sure they may think I'm an MLG player, but once they hear a female voice, that's when their true colors show. For this reason, I have joined Dames of Destiny, and they have accepted me with open arms. I have met so many awesome female gamers and even the occasional male who is a friend. I hope to join into kings fall raids and other activities with my clan.:)

Girls are treated just as poorly as guys online, I know you may not agree with this but you're just wrong. Everyone is subject to mockery and criticism on the Internet, that's how it works. The only reason you see more problems with sexism towards girl gamers is because people run to the defense of girls due to the embedded ideal of chivalry and the idea that woman need to be protected. I know you love your sister dearly and that's understandable but you need to understand that people are just mean, especially under the guise of anonymity. So I wouldn't say it's a sexist problem, I wouldn't even say it's a problem. It's just how the Internet works.

Let's get this over with. "IS HER NAME DESTINY????!?!"

As To those that call you out as a white knight, I see nothing wrong with someone standing up for what is right. They use white knight as derision because you make them look bad. One can only revel in bad behaviour then there are no repercussions so awful people get more awful when they have been called out for being awful.

Almost all of the friends I play with on the One who are females, don't really get any kind of flame/abuse. That being said, even male gamers are just as subject to harassment as females, it comes with gaming - it always will.

I will take issue with a few of these comments, because not only are they mostly a load of old nonsense, but they serve to accentuate your naivety and neediness. Maybe 10 years ago in certain circles you might have had a point, but nowadays it's a LOT different, and to be honest I am becoming increasingly sick of it. Sure there are actual women, who are also gamers out there... but these days it seems by and large that most of them are on Twitch trying to make money by exploiting the nature of the gaming community. I have not seen a female get "bullied" once in at least 5 years... The only time I see a guy remotely insult a woman is in one of two scenarios: - The guy tries to flirt with her, gets rejected and immediately fires a shot to feel good about himself, Example? My friend (Black guy in new york) once said " Hey what it do Ma, you soundin sweet.." Her reply was "the f*ck? who the hell is you? get your dusty a$$ outta here" To which he said "F*ck you then bird a$$ b*tch, I didn't want you anyway" The other situation is when a guy is just purely ignorant to the world and believes that women or even certain races are somehow "inferior". From my experience these are usually white, uneducated trash from "Middle America" that don't know any better and to be honest need to be ignored. I rarely come across those types even though I play solely on US servers. Either way, both scenarios are rare and I commonly see female gamers being almost worshipped more than anything. A lot of it is because of Youtube and twitch, Disgraceful human beings like Sniperwolf and many others have shown more women that you can just take advantage of an entire community by showing off your body without having any skill at a game at all, or infact any knowledge about anything in the world. In the current gaming community meta, women have a big advantage over their male counter parts, they can literally be terrible at games, but still be able to build a big support network around them and turn that into revenue through social networks and streaming. Sure, they get some abuse, but so does everybody... and when you can make money from that attention, I'd rather be in that situation than getting abuse and no money. I hear a lot of women say "I get so many messages and friend requests everyday"... Well you know what? There are privacy settings for a reason. You get those messages and FRs because clearly you want them, and the attention because subconsciously it makes them feel better about their flaws. Let's face it... if a guy on PSN had 100 women messaging him everyday, I think he'd quickly forget his own flaws in life. If they don't want the attention they'd use the privacy settings given to them, which absolutely DOES work because I also use the same settings. I'm sick of seeing women on PSN with over 500 friends say "all these dudes are so thirsty, you wouldn't believe how many messages I get"... To me , they're just as bad... 500 friends?? Really? Who needs that many people on their list, seriously? Anyway, I've ranted long enough. Point is, don't sit here and try to defend women when you have no clue what the true meta in the gaming community is right now and just how ridiculous it has become. It only makes you look like a needy, clueless idiot. Please go tell me how people like SSSniperwolf, or other women like her deserve what they have right now... She came from showing nudes on MGO to making THOUSANDS from talking absolute garbage on youtube because of how she looks.

Am I the only one to stay quiet when playing with a Girl? I feel like I can't use my usual jokes because they are mainly dirty jokes.

You have to admit though, its pretty funny trying to get a female titan to join her bubble bros for some quality time in a ward of dawn..

Here's a thought: Why don't we just take the sexists and push them somewhere else?

I have to say I am a girl and I play with my friends. Whenever we need to lfg they do it willingly because they don't want to subject me to any more harassment or threats. I'm always weary of joining a random party invite who asks for help and rarely do I. I'm nervous when a new person joins a party I'm in when we have a slot to fill. Just the other day we had a random join a party he invited his friend the first guy was chill the second guy preceded to tell me how he would -blam!- me or shove his D in my mouth if I were his teacher. It is annoying. And after kicking him from the party he proceeded to send messages to me and my friends with more messages about what he would like to do to me. There are levels to it too from hey I've always wanted a girlfriend who games and flirtation following, to ridicule, to mild sexual harassment, to hardcore sexual harassment to even death threats. I would love to play with new people make more friends enjoy my time on a game openly but I'm happy to let people think I'm a 12 year old boy over being a girl. Edit: for the most part when it happens I block them report them and move on. And it's not that every encounter I have had is negative as most of the people I play with is have never met outside of xbox, but there are people I encounter on a regular basis who are. I don't let it deter me from meeting new people but in general I am apprehensive of meeting new people on a game. The people I play with are a great example of guys who accept and just treat me like anyone else when I mess up they make fun of me the same way we make fun of them. And we help each other all the time. It's a good environment even if we can be jerks to each other it's out of fun. And that's all I want when playing a game is a good time with good people and a good game- thankfully I have found that.

Well I see the sjw scumbags have come out from under their rock to have a liberal circle jerk and infest this thread.

I think that you shouldn't just shelter your little sister from all evil, because hey, the world isn't perfect last I checked. Maybe she should just develop some thicker skin and give a comeback or two, and then people will see that she is cool and there is no need to disrepsect her. Me and my friendss always shit talk each other, and make fun of each other. But when it comes to girl gamers, people either ignore that they are a girl or they just act flat out stupid. Haven't you guys seen a female before? Chill out.

A guy has told me he masturbate to my voice