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floffyschneeman
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IgnoredOne said:nerdygirl said:As a girl with mostly male friends, I'd like to point out that it's usually ME listening to THEIR problems... and that "common interests" thing is a lame excuse. Girls like a lot of the same things guys do.
Maybe. But even when girls have 'common interests', the way they prosecute it is very different in my experience. I've given up, for example, ever trying to include women in most of my gaming groups because their attitude toward winning is insufferable to me - while the rest of my group can be calmly focused on winning at any cost and taking responsibility if someone makes the team lose, women almost always seem to bring an emotional component that wrecks the synergy. I've had one girl go berserk at me for "its just a game! You should be having fun! Who cares about winning?" and constantly yell, even scream for me showing "favoritism" because of my calm and proven belief that a might makes right system works. Another girl seemed happy until one day, she exploded with, "I don't like doing things like this! I'm only doing it because all your guys insist on it! I'm not good at voicing my opinions, maybe, but you should care more "
God damn it. I care about who's most efficient and effective. I believe that the best should be admired and the weak should be hazed until they learn to serve better. I couldn't give a larger damn about 'fairness' if it reduces our overall effectiveness. I treat my real-life projects the same, and at this point, am almost sexist in a way about including women in my teams lest they begin to bring up such concerns as well.
Its not that I'm not fair. I've told every person who objects to me the same thing - if he feels that he/she can do better than me, then he/she can simply present the numbers of measureable improvement versus cost. Men I've worked with can appreciate that logic; women don't, and sometimes invoke some unquantifiable social or moral benefit. Quantify it, damn it. Prove that you can do better than me if you're going to correct me. That's all I ask.
Haha. This is exactly what happened back in college days when all my friends and most of the Com Sci classmates I had (mostly boys) got hooked up with playing Dota. They were so annoying how they harassed
someone if he/she is playing poorly and they would get all stressed out to the point of bullying that person. But life's like that, we get good days and bad days and sometimes it's cos of you've not played that character before that you're still figuring things out. IT IS JUST A GAME! yes sure, but why does winning one game seems like winning the Olympics or the Fifa world cup. The point of a game is to enjoy it. The ending, we stopped playing with them and played our own game where we can ask for time outs or killing each other at certain levels. (hehe)
I do think that sometimes boys just do it differently than girls and it's better to leave it like that. But also, there are guys who can forget their ''manliness'' for a bit and understand a girl that we are wired differently. Emotional, yes very. Try having your hormones messed up every month. Sometimes it's just the lack of understanding on both sides. Ideally yes, guys and girls can hang out as friends. But both has to meet at a certain point. (but apparently, very seldom on video games)