Let's see...flannel, nope. Crew cut, nope. Hating on men, nope. Angry, nope. Implying anything about the majority of male gamers, not really. Speaking from our own personal experiences in gaming, yes. Sarcastic, absolutely. Other than those last two, I don't seem to meet your stereotyped criteria for...I'm not sure if you're going for feminist or lesbian, although I suspect it's the later. I'm not offended to be thought either, though, so looks like your ever so clever barbs failed to land. I think we can handle ourselves just fine, sorry that you've encountered a space where women don't back down from men who are upset a space exists that their privilege doesn't entitle them to occupy. Sounds like it's a first for you if this is what you think angry looks like. Anyway, back to the original point you made that until now I didn't really think was worth a response - nothing personal, it's just that Karza is much funnier... Bigotry is intolerance for those who think differently from you, which sounds a lot more like the post you lead with than anything we've said. Sexism is discrimination toward a target/non-privilieged group (women) on the part of a dominant/privileged group (men). So, since we're neither bigoted nor sexist, it's probably best we just move on. If you're so upset that we've exercised our right to make a private, personal choice regarding who we want to be in a group with, I don't know how you handle actual issues of discrimination in which people are truly treated poorly or denied access to things they have a right to access. Here are a couple of things to think about when it comes to issues of gender and space and the actual fight for equal rights. I don't really expect you to pay them any mind, but at least I've tried: http://geekfeminism.org/2009/09/19/thinking-about-gender-and-space/ http://radgeek.com/gt/2000/09/30/what_you/