Ummm...wow. You hear stories about women gamers getting a lot of slack from men, but I think this may just possibly be one of the worst stories I've heard in regards to the matter. I have to admit though that I did purposely target and seek out a woman one time in a Prey match, but I had good reason - she was whooping me and fragging me badly. I needed my revenge!

From the article:

Chloe Brown has tough skin, and as a member of the all-female Pandora’s Mighty Soldiers (acronym: PMS, formerly known as Psychotic Men Slayerz) gaming clan, she’s no stranger to the habits of online gamers. But while learning how to play Halo 2 on Xbox Live, she experienced one of the worst online hazings of her life.

In multiplayer first-person shooter games like Halo 2, gamers learn to use and defend against many different types of weapons. As a novice, Brown tended to play cautiously, hiding inside of bases where she couldn’t be hit by sniper fire.

Annoyed by her behavior, one group of players decided to make things personal. “My teammates decided it would be more fun to kill the ’stupid c*** who can’t play videogames’, and actually went to the other team, told them I was a girl, and I was the only one who was hunted the entire game,” says Brown.

Sara Nicholson, also a player of Halo 2, once had a similar experience. “Not only was I barraged with the worst female-oriented slurs, I was also hit with racist comments… I’m stronger than a lot of people when it comes to insults online but this really made me uncomfortable. What made it worse was that the guy sounded like he was no more than 13.”

Read the full article over at adotas.com