Girls Just Want To Have Dungeon Runs

"Cassandra" at Left Mouse Button writes about the sexual politics of online life in WOW and, as she puts it, the myth of the meritocracy. Hits some regular riffs, but with a lot of local colour. The quote from a 17-year old guild leader - annoyingly, with his name changed, which does undermine its credibility - is particularly memorable: “Girls just aren’t on the same level. Sometimes they’re okay as healers or whatever, and I’d rather have a girl than an empty raid slot, but they lack that primal aggression that a man needs. They don’t need the kill as bad.” It's the modern-day equivalent of the playground game where you stomp around in a conga shouting "WE ARE PLAYING ARMY! DO YOU WANT TO JOIN US?" continuously until a girl tries to, at which point you stop and shout "NO GIRLS ALLOWED!", innit? Of course, it's mostly anecdotal, which is why I bring it up - what are people's experience with this?

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