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Notify me of new posts via email. Credits to Buzzfeed for the Image. Credits to lazygamer. Who the fk actually can game like this?! Credits to Pinterest for the image. Credits to wtfhappen. Yeah, this is more like what really happens with couple gamers. She will spend a lot of time playing or wanting to play games.
She may NOT want to play games with you. She may not like the games that you play that you want to play with her and vice versa. Characters like Mass Effect's Miranda Lawson exist in the narratives of many modern games, striking that perfect balance of being a useful ally to players, but also a potential love interest for the characters they are playing. In Mass Effect 2, Miranda is just one of Commander Shepard's romantic options, but she is by far the most popular.
Miranda is a human, but has been given numerous augmentations that make her the perfect warrior. She is also very attractive - again the result of her enhancements. She is designed to be perfect, and she is. Miranda is not the only character like this that exists in modern games.
Characters like Tekken's Anna Williams or the iconic Lara Croft all have the looks, brains and ass-kicking skills to be considered the ideal woman for any modern gamer. The sad truth, though, is that they are not real. Not even close. The sooner we all realise that Lara Croft is not the woman we are going to marry the sooner we can all turn our focus to getting a real woman. Another conversation with my supervisor [made me realise] it was rather weird that my boyfriend suggested I should play as a healer, even when I originally wanted to play as a mage or a wizard.
To have that moment of, "Woah, yeah, I guess it was weird," made me really connect with the negotiations around women playing video games with partners. Like, why wasn't I allowed to play as something else?
Your research found this is a recurring theme—boyfriends controlling what games and roles their girlfriends are "allowed" to play. Gaming is a medium which has a lot weighing on authenticity. There is a "real gamers" vs "fake gamers" debate, and gaming has been gendered by a regulatory fiction constructed by gaming magazines as if it were "for boys.
Some boyfriends organise and buy games for their girlfriends to play. Most partners see these presents as coming with good intentions, but they can also recognise that buying these games is a way of increasing gaming time. It's not necessarily insidious, it just shows that partners could sometimes be more open about negotiating how they spend their leisure time together. But some of the women you interviewed found that this lead to controlling, or even abusive, relationships, right?
One of my interviewees mentioned that she felt that her partner was a dick when he played games with her—he was a massive abusive jerk. He'd insult her and then ignore her for hours if she beat him at a game, so she'd end up purposely losing to him so that she wouldn't be punished. All interviewees with abusive gamer and partner relationships were previous partners.
But there was no distinction between online and offline personas. Abusive behaviour is always abuse. Toxic masculinity in online gaming can result in abusive behaviour between couples, like when the women is being verbally abused [in a game] and the boyfriend lets it happen.
Letting abuse happen isn't just contributing to the abuse but is a form of abuse in itself. Watch: VICE meets the dating app hackers helping site users find true love:.
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