I gamed as a girl on a multiplayer platform and debunked some MMORPG gender myths
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More often than not, I flail around at the beginning of an article trying to provide background. This time I’ll dig straight into it — <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849516/" target="_blank">this study</a> on gender dynamics in MMORPGs or Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. With a sample size of 294 players, this study concludes that all online multiplayer games are rife with sexism and misogyny — so much so that <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/mmorpg" target="_blank">MMORPG</a> actually stands for ‘<em>Men Masquerading Occasionally as Really Petty Gits’</em>. Of course, the study doesn’t actually mention that last bit, but it might as well do so and limit the word count. The main findings of the study quoted verbatim are thus: