Tell anyone what gender you really are? In any of the multiplayer games I've played people playing as female chars are at a massive advantage if they can half convincingly sext idiots as they will literally throw items and currency at them resulting in them being able to not have to grind nearly as much for items an currency.
Gamers playing male chars don't have that option. The only thing you couldn't openly be was homosexual as the masses of 12 year olds would never drop it while the older gamers like myself couldn't care less.
It's like trolling, trolls get bored very quickly and move on if you ignore them. Want to be left alone? Don't give out information. Want to join a group where you you have to reveal your gender? Find a clan of generally older people to join instead of a random clan of kids going for pure numbers. The clans I've always stuck with are small, full of older gamers that wanted to play a more coordinated game with players that actually ha half a clue about what they where doing.
As I tell everyone that complains about sexism in the gaming community, there are a few simple laws of the internet:
1.) All men on the internet are men
2.) All women on the internet are men
3.) All children on the internet are the FBI
4.) Trolls are a fact of life as proven by John Gabriel's "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
If you follow these rules as the truths that they are then you'll never run into a problem with anyone that isn't directly of your own creation.
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