Men’s Rights Activists: Video gaming should be a “safe space” for male nerds.

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43. Real Offline Contact

Real offline contact would probably make a big difference - especially in terms of seeing women as real people instead of prizes to be won.

I shouldn't be representing myself as too much of an expert - my contact with this world is marginal at best, and I'm not in the "target demographic". XD But I've had a lot of time on my hands to wander about and observe stuff, and my passing impression - from the English speaking world only - is that the same culture is being fostered on servers all over the world, and it is, sadly, a culture of male asshattery that can easily be transported out into real world relations/assumptions. And there these poor schmucks will find they are very much mistaken about how many times they can get away with "rape speak" in a normal conversation. That, it seems to me, is why they are fleeing back to their "safe space".