Ernest W. Adams had this interesting article about misogyny in online gaming on Jezebel a few days ago:

http://jezebel.com/5938972/a-call-to-arms-for-decent-men

He argues that males, specifically grown-ass males, have no business taking a "no girls allowed" attitude toward their online games. I don't agree with all of his ideas. Some of his proposed solutions, such as game service providers imposing fines via credit card on guys who act like dicks, seem ill-advised (if not unworkable). And where to draw a hard line between harmless smack-talk and hate-speech seems like a nigh-fucking-well impossible task.

But I agree with the sentiment. If I was having a round of golf with my wife (which would never happen, because we both hate golf, and more importantly we hate spending time together, but just suppose) and some dude started screaming "GET THE FUKK OFFA MAH FORWAY, YA BEEYOTCH!!" at her, I would laugh heartily at his cartoonish accent. But then I would make sure that he was shown the door with due haste, because that sort of thing just isn't on.

In any case, just because some of our chosen leisure activities take place online instead of face-to-face does not mean the laws of common decency are suspended for those activities. Well, actually, it does. It means exactly that thanks, to the "greater Internet fuckwad theory". But it's a goddamn shame.