[nness]

> “As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status,” Kasumovic writes, “the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female’s performance and suppress her disturbance on the hierarchy to retain their social rank.”

I would agree with that opinion — I think we've all experienced men behaving stupidly when they overly value and then perceive a threat to their masculinity. Gaming is certainly an activity where we see that to more of an extreme.

I wonder though the breadth of the data though. Other metrics like age, or even play time, and the like may equally as telling.

[jennybrennan]

On your first point, yes - this is also seen in other studies. It's known a the masculine overcompensation thesis. Willer 2011 discusses four studies: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/o...