Brats aren't in School anymore, and Adult Brats who never grew up.

Oh it is not really the traditional gender roles that bother me with those messages, its more the increase of them and the downgrading nature. It is one thing to believe into traditional roles but actively attacking someone with it is not very nice.

Not that it would excuse any of their behavior or anything, but I wonder how these people even find out you are a girl?
Do they just assume you are a girl because you are bad (in their eyes)? That would be even more messed up I feel.

Or are we only talking about consoles here? I heard they only have voice chat, which would explain why they know...
On PC the worst behavior I've seen was people hitting on you because your character is attractive, but that happened to me only once in 5 years and there was nothing sexist about that either. It was just ... creepy I guess.

Oh no, propably they see it on my ID, its clearly female. I have a good share of people who assume me to be male as well, even though of the ID. Also I don't keep it secret, if people start calling me he I correct them most of the time. And most people are nice either way, its just an increase of sexist messages lately.

Sadly it happens when the kids are out of school. Move on and try to ignore it.

Not saying you but at least on console I’ve noticed many women make it a point to tell everyone either in their gamer tag and their character that they are a woman. While there’s nothing wrong with that obviously and it should be encouraged, it’s just something to be aware of if one doesn’t want to be noticed.

I use to play with this girl and she’d would have people ask for pictures of her feet

@Sleep724 I don't want to hide it in the end, I am me afterall, to hide myself feels like accepting defeat.

That's gonna be a yikes from me.

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I hadn't had sexist messages since ages, the last time was over 2 years ago, where I got randomly asked very explicit things. I blocked the guy at that time and never had issues till now.
Since a few days I get a huge increase of sexist texts and not just in whisper even in zonechats.

Just today in Cyrodiil people started to tell me to go back to the kitchen and suck their balls, after I helped them killing a ballgroup they fought over 30 minutes in 5 seconds. I really don't get why people start to be like that.

In PvE I had similar instances as well, even getting kicked out of group for being a girl, because girls can't play and such things.
This sudden rise of that kind of messages and people feels very uncomfortable.

As a male I can tell you I also feel the same, I am concerned over the sexist comments by females, it was old and tired a long time ago and just seem to be getting a lot worse lately. I am also concerned by the overly sexually aggressive comments made in zone chat, specially people looking for sexual attention and using suggestive names, and saying things in zone chat to get that negative sexually related attention they seem to be craving so badly.

Many times people present the worst possible version of themselves because they are afforded a certain level of anonymity in online zone chat. These same people are not a different person in real life, they are just behaving differently. When people are held accountable for what they do or say, most of the time they behave in a civilized way. When there is no accountability, they many times with express how they truly think and feel without reservation.

But do not worry, there is a very easy way to hold these people accountable. Take screen shots of what they say, and turn them over to ZoS. Eventually, if everyone does their part, these people will be held accountable and no longer will affect anyone in any negative way. But that's the key, you have got to report these people every single time they behave in an inappropriate way, or else they will just simply continue.

It has nothing to do with anyone's political or religious belief, it has nothing to do with anyone's gender or sexual identity or race or skin color or what language they speak. It simply has to do with people behaving in a civilized manor and treating their fellow human being with respect and dignity. If you cannot simply do those things, you should be fired. Just like in Europe in past history, when someone behaved inappropriately, the villagers burned their house down and chased them off, out of their community. That was called "being fired". We need to practice that in this game, when someone behaves in a way that is not appropriate, chase them off by reporting them. Set fire to them by reporting them. Let them know there is no room for bad behavior.

I doubt people will actually do anything, mostly it seems that people join in instead, and harp on people who would report bad behavior.

Only other option is to disable zone chat totally... Then you won't be subjected to any of the garbage, ever. Or just simply stop playing the game...