Let's be friendly to GIRLS

• Have a zero tolerance policy concerning online harrassment and enforce it.
• Don't allow sexist jokes. It's impossible for a woman to tell if you "really" mean it, and even if you don't it will be tedious and insulting for her to spend her time ignoring or humouring sexist jokes.
• Write all of your introductory material in such a way that a woman will recognise herself in it just as much as a man will. Use "she" to describe readers in various places, and use female names for some of your hypothetical examples when you have them.
• Unless your group has an explicitly sexual purpose, minimise the discussion of the sexual desires of participants. Many women (entirely justifiably) fear online harrassment in sexual contexts.
• Involve women in the creation and governance of your forum at every level.
• If there is an anti-feminist incident in your forum, apologise simply. Don't use phrasing that suggests that only women would have found the incident upsetting, or that you would have found the incident unproblematic if there weren't complaints. Don't tell women how they should feel about the incident: listen to them describe how they feel.
• Women are often placed in the role of "nanny" in forums. Don't leave the enforcement of social norms to the women members of the group.

Source: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women-friendly_forums

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1. The "teabagging" bit exists in MMORPGs as well. Actually almost any multiplayer game with a crouch feature will do. Shit, I'm surprised they didn't bring up the MVC/MSHVSF example where hitting the p1 or p2 button after winning allows you to move around an extra 10 seconds- I would always run over to the opponent's dead body and crouch crouch crouch...
2. Why is the strategy for so-called feminists itching to "start a discourse" about various actions of so-called patriarchal dominance to write an article on some stupid joke and claim that this is ruining the lives and self-esteem of females? Do they even stop to bring up that female characters are capable of teabagging? Do they think to consider the greater issue with Halo, that there _are no goddamn female characters to begin with_? Yes, a character who is molested in-game brings about true feelings of molestation in the same sense that a character killed in-game brings about true feelings of death. The fact that the women involved obviously don't feel "manly" from having a man character, or feel the horror of imminent fatality from dying pretty much kills any chance that they would feel dirty from being dead and having another imaginary sprite squat on their corpse.