"It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what she calls "the most advanced follower to ever exist"
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Their departure has sparked another conversation about how the modding scene looks after its own

I think gamers as a whole, though specifically those in niche communities, need to take a long and hard look at themselves. We should celebrate the volunteers that create wonderful content for us, generally with no financial gain. Instead, commonly, there are communities that criticize and tear down every little thing they can think of. They even went as far as to doxx the poor woman. We need to be better, and we need to hold these kind of toxic trolls accountable. Especially those of us who are men, we have a responsibility to call out other men who mistreat women in the gaming industry, or gaming in general.

*Edit: I apologize if I insinuated that all gamers are guilty of this kind of behavior, that was not my intention at all. My sentiment is that many of us do not think about this kind of thing, and less are willing to speak out against their friends. We need to be better about that as a whole. I appreciate you as a person if you are already of this mindset.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    9·
    7 hours ago

    This isn’t even about gaming, necessarily.

    Girls who code are rare. There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female. And a hell of a lot more men.

    And I’m in a progressive city in a progressive state.

    I work in IT, and I think there is one woman out of 50 employees on my corner of the org chart, and that’s the CIO’s admin assistant.

    I’m certain it’s culture, and it doesn’t just go for programming, it goes for almost all of STEM. There was a recent “Stuff You Should Know” episode about toy chemistry sets, and they made it a point to talk about the marketing, and how it always was with boys, for boys. My son, 8 year old kid, says “that’s just wrong! Girls can do all that stuff!”. He’s got it figured out.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female.

      Did you get this backwards?

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        31·
        6 hours ago

        No…but I am being hyperbolic. I definitely interface with more transmasc and nonbinary coders than I do with cisgender female coders. This may also be because, again, cultural reasons.

        There certainly are more cisgender female coders, but they are still a minority group by a big amount, and they tend to not draw much attention to themselves.