Video games are ruining our young men

Great to know that you acknowledge there are positives to it, but again, you are focusing on just one side, when you completely dismiss the fact that male gamers receive harassment through gaming as well, sexual harassment included. [1] I do admit that sexual harassment is a problem in the gaming community, but it’s not ‘ruining’ young male gamers. In response to your article, I will not deny that sexism isn’t a large issue when it comes to gaming, but I see a few issues with it that I must address. 1. The study was polled with 874 respondents. How many people as a whole, men and women, do you think play video games all around the world? Even though 80% of 874 people is still a large number, and the fact that it said “The numbers for men in the same areas were 11.7% and 2.6% respectively – about a third of the percentage for women in each case.” That being said, who knows? Maybe women have sexually harassed men on gaming platforms as well, and you are just focusing on one side. 2. ‘A study is found that women are harassed 4 times more than men’.I might have overlooked, but I see nothing provided in the source you gave me that gives reference to this study. Please give me that source and I will look at it. 3. You state that ‘I’ll rape you’ is often chanted towards female players. So how often is ‘often’ to you? I’m not saying that it is not a problem that people are being threatened with rape, but again, what sources can you provide that shows an exact number or approximate of all female gamers who were told this kind of thing and then you will have a good argument to provide outside of a general trend. 4. ‘Studies also show about 35% of women actually QUIT playing video games due to the sexual harassment, and the sexism itself. And about 9% quit playing a certain game forever due to the sexual harassment.’ Yes, of those women who were polled. Not women as a majority. Again, use sources that are specific to what they are saying and not making it cover every single woman in the world. 5. ‘But let's not forget that women are harassed 4 times more than men.’ Again, I see no sources you gave that provide evidence to prove that. Again, you are making a statement that encompasses an audience outside of your point, and not providing sources for that either. 6. ‘Now I say that this is ruining young men because these harassers are more likely to say these things in real life.’ Sources, sources, sources. If they are said online or within a community, aren’t they technically said ‘in real life’? 7. ‘At the end of the day 40% of females make up the gaming community’.Again, sources please. 8. ‘Let's defend our harassed female and male gamers and stand up to the bullies who do the harassing.’ Cool beans, it’s not a feminist issue, so why were your arguments started primarily on just female gamers being harassed?... Closing Argument: I do not think that it is okay to sexually harass anybody on online gaming, or outside of it either. That being said, my opponent has used some relatively unreliable sources for an argument that should not be limited to a certain handful of people for a topic that is so one-sided. If you are going to form a debate, please make sure you provide resources that cover a great majority of everyone and not just 800-so people. ... Sources: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...