Don’t get me wrong.. but I feel a lot men in the wow community are weak when it comes to women which is makes the group an ideal playground for dramaqueens. They’d get to pick their drama flavor of the hour, like kids in candyshop.

As an ealier poster mentioned, women who behave this way like to be “unique snowflakes” in all-male guilds.

I believe that for the rest, its a case of overcomming natural inclinations that allow so many women to succeed.

Regarding the flirting thing – the behaviors that are norms in some guilds, for both men and women, annoy me. And they DO stir up trouble.
I want WoW to be fun and an overheated guild isn’t going to be fun (at least long term it woun’t be).
Broken hearts lead to /gquits.
Same thing would happen in an all-male guild populated with homosexuals.
The problem is not that they’re women and women = trouble makers.
The problem is that they’re potential romanic partners.
The best way to deal with this in a guild is avoid saying/doing stuff you wouldn’t be comfortable saying/doing in real life.

The one stereotype you didn’t meantion is that “Women are more likely to help you if you ask”. This has been my experience and why I end up seeking out the female members of our guild – they’re more likely to say “yes” if you ask them to fill out an instance run or help with a group quest. The male players are more selfish.

It’s funny, though, when the occasional kindness has been bestowed upon me (usually in the form of a hand when I’m questing and get tangled with multiple mobs), I’ve always attributed it to me being a healer and not to my or my toon’s gender…

When it has been stuff, depending on the attitude of the giver, I’ve attributed it to anything from a new and lonely person trying to ‘buy’ a friend to someone with just an abundance of stuff trying to get rid of it… Gender hasnt even occurred to me as a possible reason…

Interesting thought and one I’ll have to ponder more…

oh, and for guys playing female toons… a male friend of mine put it well, “If I have to look at someone’s butt most of the time, I’d rather look at a female butt!” Perfectly logical when put like that! ::chuckle::

As someone directly involved with guild politics for raiding through the original game and TBC, though, I’d like to add my thoughts to the “Women are bad players” myth. Many of our best players were women (especially our healers, for whatever reason, but a good few DPSers as well), but most of our worst players also tended to be women. And that made absolute sense and doesn’t reflect on our gender at all. The issue was the treatment of female players by our raid leaders and guild leaders (and I was complicit in this, so I’m not passing off blame).

Many of our female players were wives and girlfriends of other, stronger players. So one issue was that we were reluctant to be too harsh (not that we were ever particularly harsh) on them lest we offend their partners. While we might take a poorly-performing mage to task normally, if she’s the wife of our top dps player or our tank, it becomes a bit more political.

Another issue was that we were a bit too quick to accept stereotypes. Since women are “more emotional” and “worse gamers,” it’s easy to talk yourself into letting someone perform badly to avoid some sort of imagined confrontation. You don’t want to be the one who made the underperforming druid cry, right?

So, at long last, my point: There are good players, and there are bad players. And there are otherwise good guilds that let bad players hang around and underperform because those bad players are women, where if they had been men they’d be out of the raid group. Which, in the long run, does no one any good.

It’s probably a generalizing, but I don’t seem to remember ever hearing a women shout on vent on other players, even if they really did’nt like something. And on wipes they tend to want to learn more on how to perform better then to blidly start accusing others.

At least that’s my experience… So I’m more relaxed when playing with women over all.