This is your brain on PvP

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2-09-2009 @ 4:46PM

Gessilea said...

Another woman who dislikes PvP here, but I'm really, really, really hesitant to jump too far into the gender theory on this one. Personally, I dislike interacting with the general WoW population, which kept me out of battlegrounds and has also kept me away from larger leveling guilds, out of /trade and /general, and out of pugs. Once arenas started up I tried a couple, but at that point had been playing exclusively PvE for so long that I really didn't want to learn how to play all over again.

One could probably make a good argument that women are socialized to be less competitive in general, but since I'm not an expert of any kind, I think I'll keep out of it. Personally, I'm hugely competitive, but find that when I get into that mindset, I get nasty and frustrated and basically don't enjoy myself. WoW is my fun time, so anything that's not fun has to go.

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