I Told The Main Clerk At A Trading Card Store That My Best Friend Was Just Now Getting Me Into The Pokemon

I told the main clerk at a trading card store that my best friend was just now getting me into the Pokemon TCG and all I mentioned was that I ‘have not played a tcg since I was a teenager’.

This white, male, middle aged gatekeeper fuckface proceeded to condescendingly mansplain how it was ‘really good’ I was ‘starting out with a game like Pokemon, because it’s sooo much easier and you can just play the game- as opposed to have to worry about all these checks and counters with a more complicated game, like Magic”.

... The card game I played HEAVILY as a teenager and was very good at? WAS MAGIC: THE GATHERING.

I’m so tired of this shit and even my friend, who’s white but a GAY male, has issues hanging out with self-professed members of the ‘nerd’ subculture because of the rampantly toxic attitudes towards women, non-whites, and p. much anything that’s also NOT WHITE STRAIGHT MALE.

That’s NOT EVEN SCRATCHING THE GODDAMN SURFACE of the Asian fetishization and sexual harassment I’ve fucking suffered in comic book shops, conventions, video game tourneys, and cosplay meet-ups.

This shit needs to STOP.

This thread is the experience of so, so many women in tabletop, tcg, and other related hobbies. I’ve been lucky in my DnD groups but encountered it elsewhere depressingly, enragingly often. I’ve sat at a table to play Magic: the Gathering only to have the guys I was playing with start critiquing my body and discussing what they’d like to do to me sexually. Few things have felt more awful and demeaning; I consider that a personal low point in the nerd portion of my life.

If you, too, have stories like this, I am here for you. Come sit with me. There is a place for us in nerddom, and never, ever let any gross creep tell you otherwise.

Jay watches My Hero Academia: Season 3

Can Mineta just die, already- JFC, his schtick was old in like S1.

Shonen anime still has a long fucking way to go if they’re using tired-ass, sexist fucking tropes 24/7 and it’s not even the 80′s/90′s anymore

“Tfw someone yells about how they want to roleplay with you, but then: 1) make you work the plot alone (even when you specify you prefer to wing it). 2) ask you to write the starter “because it makes more sense” when actually, it doesn’t at all. The worst is when you were already iffy about roleplaying with them and you realize they’re already making you do all the work. Hmm, smells like lazy. Nah. I'mma give you a chance to prove you can bring the plot forward but I’ll dump you real fast if you don’t.“