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no other hobby is as oppressing as being a gamer.

That level of hyperbole is insane. I get far, far more grief about being interested in rocks and geology than I do gaming.

Gaming is mainstream. A huge multi billion dollar industry caters to gamers every need and desire.

They're joking.

There's a whole #GamersRiseUp meme that makes fun of gamers acting like they are an oppressed group. r/GamersRiseUp has been banned, but it was a satire version of r/gaming.

You get rape- and deaththreats for being interested in rocks and geology? How common is doxxing and people getting killed "by accident" in that community? Because as sad as it is, this are the lower levels of the gaming-world.

It's the behaviour of any subculture at scale.

I doubt that. I know many subcultures and yes, they all have a level of toxity, but usually not to this extreme level. But to be fair, this level of harm is more focused to specific sub-subcultures in gaming. Probably "gaming" as a culture is to broad definend to really explain this things.

In terms of risk of death from other people, rocks and geology is likely vastly more risky due to economic incentives. Gaming gets bad publicity simply due to scale, but on average it’s extremely tame.

The hobby is oppressing you or whatever subset of people you are inserting yourself into is oppressing you.

I don't see how simply being a fan of games, playing them, collecting them, or creating them can be oppressive on it's own.

Hobby =/= Community

I feel like being part of the KKK counts as a more oppressing hobby. Or did you mean oppressed? In which case, how did you arrive at that idea?

Being a gamer while female?

ducks

[Disclaimer’: not female, pro gamers of any or no gender]

‘ yes this joke has a disclaimer. no, this isn’t part of the disclaimer, but part of the joke

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