Since I’m a mercy main I have a lot of other mercy friends many of whom are women. 100% of them have been harassed in voice chat immediately upon speaking because they’re girls. From just queuing with them myself I’d say this happens more than half of all matches. As a man I’ve never been immediately harrassed for being a man playing overwatch. I think that’s the point they’re going for. I’m my opinion, it’s a game and there’s kids playing it so there will be immaturity. It’s unfortunate, but it is what it is. Just have to mute, report and move on. As for the female streamers though the lengths people go to to harrass them is ridiculous and Blizzard could definitely stand to take that specific form of harrassment more seriously.
Not gonna lie, that seems pretty tame compared to the gay banter that gets thrown around in voice (and sometimes text) chat. I understand how you feel. I don’t like being hit on by random dudes either. But just realize, its part of online gaming. I’d wager a lot of the people that play Overwatch don’t really get the chance to interact with girls/women IRL. They’re probably not even trying to cause offence, they just don’t know any better. You might have some success asking them to stop, otherwise there is no option other than blocking them.
omg huge problem xddd
Man IDK if I am just very lucky but I can count on one hand the times I have been harassed for being a woman. Now people have been toxic jerks but usually they keep gender out of it. I have noticed that since I first started playing online about 15 years ago till now I have received far less gender based harassment especially in the last few years which I hope means things are getting better for most everyone. I think it’s cause women have a much stronger presence now. Also just mute them don’t let some jerk who means nothing to you ruin something you enjoy. IDK how old you are or how long you have been playing but given time you will learn to just deal with it better and grow some thicker skin. Sometimes if someone makes a comment like “are you a girl?!?!” I’ll make some stupid joke back like “I identify as an asexual gorilla” or “No I am your inner most thoughts” most people just laugh and move on and it shows they can’t really trigger you.
Whenever I hear a female on comms, I’m just glad that there’s another person willing to talk at the early morning hours I play at (3-8am EST). Maybe the toxicity is divided a little worse by rank, but I’ve had a good amount of games where there have been girls in them on comms and no one harassed them. Of course there’s always a few people that are just generally toxic, but they always go after everyone. I remember last night actually, playing a match where one of our teammates said they had a ‘female Mercy main’, and that it was going to be an easy game. Ended up losing that match and he was flaming everyone the entire time. Since the timeframe I play at has so few players, got most of the same team back, sans him being on the other team and the Mercy on ours, along with a few randoms new to the match. Ended up wiping the enemy team, mostly due to the tilt the toxic one made his team go through.
Suffice to say, the majority of the playerbase I see is silent, with a sprinkling of extremely toxic players and good time players.
Correct Responses:
“Thanks! I’d give myself 8 out of 10, 9 on a good day. But right now I just want to shoot some people in their faces, so can we get on with that?”
“Yes, you got me! I’m a girl… You’ve probably seen picture of us in books. Little secret between just us… Your mom is a girl too.”
“Wassup wankers? How’s your mom’s basement today?”
“I sound like a teenage girl, you f**king paedo. Is that what you’re into, you freak?”
its funny u think these guys are nice to men LOLOLOL
I’m sorry but a compliment is now harassment? For bleep’s sake. They’re thirsty guys and any nerdy guy has these dumb fantasies with a nerdy girl sharing his interest. It’s utterly harmless. Erstwhile I get girls telling me my voice/attitude “is cute” and I blush from it. Like… cmon. If being complimented by some strange guy (likrly boy) online is now harassment then society is bleeped.