Zing wrote:It's just another stereotype used as a mental shortcut. If I say "dudebro game", you know exactly what type of game I mean. If I say "emo kid", again you know exactly what I mean.
This.
I will just repost part of my answer to that thread
Gamers and people who are into different game genres have always had different stigmas. If women (yes, I do know that there are women that played video games before the PS2/Wii era and blahablahblah ) and drunken fratboys want to their own gaming niches, they will have to learn how to deal with the same shit that roleplayers etc have had to deal for ages. Its ok to bash and make stereotypes of people who play World of Warcraft, but the same people who have been teasing gamers for ages should now be granted some sort of immunity from all slander now that they want to play games too?
Some gamers are like self-loathing white knights 
Two gender threads, one race thread and now this? You seems like a politician who is fixated on diversity - gamers must welcome every new comer with open arms. They are not allowed to preserve their own culture, and they must accept all changes made by outsiders to the culture they perceive as their own.
How about a thread about the awful stereotypes about RPG, eSports or MMORPG players? Playing World of Warcraft has a very widely recognized stigma with many negative associations and stereotypes. Only people on some internet forums care if you play Halo or Madden, there are no commonly known stigmas with those games that even non-gamers aknowledge. How about demanding that those sports fans stop being so elitist and let new people come in and alter their culture? Or any other male-dominated subculture that isnt gaming for that matter? How about female-dominated hobbies? Do they need to make their hobbies more accessible to males, even if it means destroying the part of their hobby that made them like it in the first place?
The point im trying to make is that so called nerds of different kinds, anime nerds, MMORPG players, roleplayers etc carry a stigma in real life because of their freakish hobbies. You could say the same thing about people who are into BDSM or people who follow a certain style -hip hop, emo, goth, hippie, cyber punk etc. While they might be outsiders or carry a stigma in real life because of their hobbies or lifestyle choices, they feel at home with their own kin. A group of likeminded people who have created a new subculture with its own standards and rules. It is unreasonable and despicable to demand that those people need to make their respective subcultures more accesible to people who want to fundamentally alter their culture.
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
I've stopped using brogamer for the most part, since my taste in games can be somewhat "dudebro"ish. I mean, 80% of my gaming time is spent playing online FPS games.
The Online FPS games-category includes PC FPS games in it, which are in many cases anything but brogamer games.
