I can't remember which one of you said it but you'd be surprised how many of these kinds of guys will say this kind of stuff to your face. Some guys are just douchebags whether they're behind a screen or in your face. I work at a video game store where fifty percent of our staff is female and all three of us have had incidents where male customers don't want us to serve them because the instantly assume we know nothing about gaming. It's unfortunately that almost everyday I go to work I have to prove myself as an actual gamer. The manager of my store is female and she says she gets this kind of thing all the time and tends to hire any staff member (male or female) based on their knowledge of gaming.
The other night I actually had a young guy come in and ask me a few questions to which I believed I successfully answered everything he wanted to know and when I asked his brother if he needed help he said he was fine. The my ASM (Assisstant Manager) who is male, came out of the back and the guy asked him all the same questions he asked me as if I didn't know what I was talking about and his brother who didn't have any questions for me asked my ASM a whole slew of questions just because he was a guy. I was so furious with them it bothered me for the rest of the night.
I don`t have a gold account so I don`t play live with anyone but my husband does all the time and the other night he was talking to a bunch of guys. One of them was complaining that he couldn`t get a girl (possibly his girlfriend) into gaming with him and my husband suggested to find a girl that was already into gaming. He made a comment aong the lines of -All girl gamers are fat and ugly- and my husband got all indignant and said -Hey my wife`s not fat or ugly-
It`s really unfortunate that most guys out there have these preconceptions about us just because we`re female. If we`re attractive females there`s no way we`d be into gaming or know anything about gaming and if we are gamers there`s no way we can be attractive. It`s all bullshit.