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Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

Blndmage wrote:
Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

fe40k wrote:

Blndmage wrote:
Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Absolute unit.

You know, as someone who should logically be offended by "Robot/Rowboat Girlyman", I'm...not.

I am generally offended by "Bolter Bitches" though.

Also how it seems that if there's ever a fallen Sister or female Chaos model she's devoted to Slaneesh, etc. Or at least in player's conversions and minds.

Blndmage wrote:
Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

Call me cynical, but this feels like troll bait to me....

fe40k wrote:

Blndmage wrote:
Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Note this ^^^ isn't sexist compared with the obvious smartass rejoinder.

@OP - find better people to play with.

I'll call Rabbit Gooleymon however I damned well please, thank you very much.

Please provide some good examples of G-man names.

Dakka at its best itt.

Blndmage wrote:
Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

I think most gamers don't mean it as an insult. Many people don't like Guilliman or envy his powerful rules. And his name sounds a bit like girlyman. They say it and they also say Bobby G. or papa smurf or stuff like that. Most people probably don't think much about when they say it.

I totally refer to Guilliman as either Rawbutt Girlyman or Robot Gorillaman from time to time. Really though, in my opinion this is much less of a intended insult towards women and more of mocking an overly complicated name for a character.

Eh. I'm sorry you feel offended, I guess. I've never called him "Girlyman" and think it's sorta stupid, but also clearly intended as such (a joke) and not an insult toward girls. I hope you'll be able to move on from this. There are far more egregious insults toward women to be found in everyday life.

Blndmage wrote:
Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

First of all, stop trying to police other peoples' language because you can't control your emotions. It's unhealthy and it will always backfire.

If you have to speak "As a [insert demographic]" and not as an individual, I don't think you have much of a point.

And lastly, with an attitude like that, I can honestly say that your departure would make the gaming community a bit more comfortable, at least until you can re-calibrate and come back.

Adios.

Blndmage wrote:
Ok, I gotta come out and say it.

While I'm not a fan of Guilliman, and the poster boys that are Space .Marines, the constant way players change his name to have feminine tones as an insult makes the 40k crowd feel VERY Hostile towards girls. As a woman gamer, incoming back after not playing since 5th, the sexist language forum users, and players in general, regardless of location, use, is making me want to abandon the hobby all together.

Stop being sexist jerks, there's no call for it.

Do you mean where they call him Girlyman?

I like him being called Rowboat. Maybe Girlyman could be swapped with Goolyman, since he's kind of all the Primaris Marines' daddy?

but Papa Smurf isn't a lady slight, #wilfully misunderstanding

 Daedalus81 wrote:
Do you mean where they call him Girlyman?

Yeah. Nothing like logging on and seeing this kind of first world problems. right?

I think we can all agree that giving Rawboat Gillymun silly names is hilarious and that no one should take it too seriously.

 Formosa wrote:
Call me cynical, but this feels like troll bait to me....

Every once in a while someone from a certain facebook group logs into Dakka or some of the other groups and within a day or so takes stuff down this route. So it's either troll bait or someone fishing for persecution fuel.

Bit it does fit into the adolescent trend to make feminine the opposite and negative version of masculine. Referring to Guilliman as Girlyman is meant to deride the character and to some degree the player using him. The fact there is also collateral damage is never considered. It's a symptom of a greater problem. A passive aggressive reminder that someone is inferior to you due to their gender.

 Crimson Devil wrote:
The fact there is also collateral damage is never considered.

Do me a favor and show me the extent of this collateral damage.

Bindmage obviously feels slighted.

>wants to be treated equally
>can’t handle a play on words
Modern feminism is a disease that I hope never truly makes its way into 40k

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Bindmage obviously feels slighted.

Oh no, sound the alarm. A person claiming to be a girl on the internet is upset about something.

Dat's cuz Girlyman dun hav da strong pimp hand.

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Bindmage obviously feels slighted.

Oh no, sound the alarm. A person claiming to be a girl on the internet is upset about something.

You're really aggressive. Feeling guilty about something?

 Crimson Devil wrote:

You're really aggressive. Feeling guilty about something?

Not a damned thing, lady.

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Bit it does fit into the adolescent trend to make feminine the opposite and negative version of masculine. Referring to Guilliman as Girlyman is meant to deride the character and to some degree the player using him. The fact there is also collateral damage is never considered. It's a symptom of a greater problem. A passive aggressive reminder that someone is inferior to you due to their gender.

Thank you for understanding my point.

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Bindmage obviously feels slighted.

Oh no, sound the alarm.

Done!

I've asked for Mod review, so we'll see what they think.

Blndmage wrote:
Thank you for understanding my point.

In your signature, you get triggered by 'dude'. I'm shocked any of your points are taken seriously, just being honest.