(Sorry for double post, I forgot the new Guild didn't merge posts by the same user that were posted shortly after one another)

[quote=Kestrel]Yeah, it's a new thing. People will get used to it soon enough. Not so much because of feminism, but more because of ;"Yeah I'm a girl, but what you should be more worried about is BOOM HEADSHOT. Check dat killstreak bitches."Seriously, that'll get you a lot more respect. It's true that gaming and geek culture has mostly been a male-dominated culture, but that also means it values competition. Kick enough ass and people will have no choice but to respect you. Except maybe some teenagers. But guess what. Puberty does that.[/quote]

This. Being a girl or a boy shouldn't matter in the gaming world.
What matters is how you act, how you play and how you get the job done.

And teenagers... Never expect the teenage community to making logical sense or be accepting.
If my High School speaks for anything the very nature of Teenagers is to abandon logic as being inconvenient, and to cast out as many people as possible so those remaining feel more special and important about themselves.

[quote=Kestrel]Go into any PvP game and see what shit people yell at one another. Here's a small revelation; most of these people assume everyone is a guy. I think guys are generally a lot harder on each other. Even in my MMO-days, you didn't want to PUG as a male priest. People would make their priest female because they had at least a chance of others assuming they were girls. At this time gender-shielding was far more accepted than what I gather it is now, though.[/quote]

In my case I more just treat everyone 'like a guy'. At least if another looked at how I treat everyone they'd probably say "I treat everyone as a guy".
I try not to judge, make assumptions or treat anyone differently cause of their gender. I just treat everyone as logical, rational human beings who don't need everything sugar coated or focus directly towards them to get along with.

If you are the kind of person who proves to be illogical, or need's everything sugar coated for you to get along well with others, then we probably get along in the first place I'd just list that person as someone whose not worth my time.