Meg

I’m only 13. I should not have to go through this.

I’ve been playing a lot of online murder mystery (Among us mostly) games lately with stagers in public lobbies. This tends to lead to people being less careful about what they say (or chat, this game had a texting like system to talk) because they don’t know who you are. While playing I’ve always played with a very feminine skin that I play with because I like. So far I have gotten many comments including:

Are you hot?
Want to date?
Guess what? I fucked Meg (They actually said that. I was confused at first, but even more confused when I realized a random stranger was claiming to have had sex with me)
Are your legs long?
Do you have boobs?
Thats really hot.
Let me do the detective work sweetie.
Well it can’t be Meg she’s too sweet to be the killer.

While playing these games people will constantly be asking. Are you a girl? This doesn’t seem like a very impactful question but it really is. I was playing with this person who told me he was a boy so I told him I was a girl. I thought it was fine until I got accused of being the murder and he immediatly jumped in to defend me. Like a could not defend my self It might be just me but he deffenely did not defend me when he thought I was a boy. Also when we are playing they are always telling me to follow them.

Him: Follow me around the map
Me: Why?
Him: I know where to go
Me: So do I
Him: Just Follow me okay?

Like I was way to dumb to understand the game.

The most annoying thing that happened to be so far was I was playing and fed up of being ignored, I put on a boy skin, a boy name and played the game. I found the killer every dam time. By the end of my 4th game everyone was really into it saying things like “you solved the case again”, “are you sherlock” and “you have 90000000000 iq”. When I mentioned I was a girl those comments stopped.

I even ran the calculations. With a ‘boy’ name in a ‘boy’ skin, people were actually 68% more likely to belive me when I said I knew who the killer was then when I was dressed as a sterotipical girl. Of my 100 accusations as a girl I got called a bitch 13 times.

“Stop being a bitch”
“Stop being so bitchy”
“Stop it. Your acting like a bitch”

Sometimes they even accused me (as a girl) of being the killer. Not when i was a boy.

Let me tell you, my male alias did not get called a bitch once.

Even when I MENTION to my class that I play video games they automatically think I play games like Bitlife and the Sims4. I mean, I do but it should not be the stereotype that I play that and not Fortnite or Call of Duty.

From now on I’m just going to play as a Boy. Its much easier. My new name will be Sherlock. They will not ignore me.

Meg