A normal reaction from the most tolerant people

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[–]beazer12beard 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Maybe it's that often in nerdy male hobbies, there exists a critical threshold of socially inept individuals that will drive away women, by swarming on them and such.

[–]QueenBread[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Nah. As a nerd woman, that's not it. It's a socialization thing. It's not ladylike to play with toys when you're grownup, while men can do that because boys will be boys. The times I felt genuine gender dysphoria because I was the only female playing Warhammer.... or when I heard the mom of one of my friends making an amused comment like "how can your wives deal with you playing with toys!". Fuck you lady, I'm a woman too.....

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

while men can do that because boys will be boys.

Lol.

Grown men playing with toys is no more socially acceptable than it would be for grown women. The number of friends of mine whose girlfriends and wives stopped them playing DnD or Warhammer proves that.

Men’s hobbies, particularly the obsessive ones, like trainspotting, are merely tolerated and remain the subject of ridicule by society.

Until it suddenly became cool, coinciding with the mass monetisation of geekdom by Hollywood (and the proliferation of cosplayers with OnlyFans accounts), no one gave a shit about geeks and nerds.

It’s cool that you like Warhammer, but don’t kid yourself that the men who grew up playing it had it easy. My friends and I were bullied mercilessly for being into DnD and Warhammer.

[–]wylanderuk 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Save your time, a man could hung drawn and quartered for doing something and a woman could get a scolding for doing the same damm thing and she would still claim the woman had it harder.

[–]wylanderuk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Told you she would do it...

[–]QueenBread[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The number of friends of mine whose girlfriends and wives stopped them playing DnD or Warhammer proves that.

As someone who has friends whose wives nag them about how they play dnd or warhammer, can you imagine how that makes me feel? If for example you thought knitting was awesome, and everyone considered knitting "for girls", chances are you'd drop your interest in knitting. Same goes for girls who like nerd stuff.