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My experience of presenting as female online in video games is I got a lot more attention, help, and outright handouts.

I want to see an actual study, because my anecdata doesn’t match the claimed experience.

> in video games

First of all, this is a different demographic. Second, workplaces have a totally different dynamic.

You don't think that getting more attention, help, and outright handouts isn't its own form of bullying? You don't think it hints at an ever-more underlying reason behind the attention, help, and handouts?

>You don't think that getting more attention, help, and outright handouts isn't its own form of bullying?

Yes, if we distort bullying out of all sense to just mean "different treatment"...

In that sense, a rich person who receives more attention, the best seats in the house, VIP treatment where they go, are also "bullied".

I don't think that help and handouts is bullying, and frankly I find it amusing that somebody would argue that

You don't see an issue with being unable to have your in-game relationships progress past "you're a woman and that's the only thing we care about you"?

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