86: Let Boys Play. Online Games Free Men. MML e-Sports Sublimate Macho Rites. Eve Eurydice w Raphael

Eve Eurydice speaks with 21-year-old gamer Raphael Lewis about the vast parallel universe of interactive online gaming. 2020 gave men more social permission to hang out online on Discord etc. In real life people are stuck replicating ancient & obsolete gender-based roles that used to be proper. Online, People Learn that We Have Full Control of Our Identity & We can change Who We Are, How we Present. In real life it’s hard to understand that we all have Agency & don’t have to obey. People who play online games w friends report feeling better. 40% of players want to financially support themselves by playing if they can find a way. The inter-action is more attractive than the passivity of TV or other screen watching. Gaming is the Future of Entertainment. Multiplayer MML games add the fun of the unpredictability of human interaction to spectator entertainment. Interaction is the future of education replacing our authoritative centralized system. E-games are growing bigger than any sport (U.S. teams lag far behind their counterparts in Asia, where e-sports are a way of life, where gamers compete as children and pros train 18 hours a day.) Gaming Liberates young men from brutal bloody rituals of scarification & war, from the duty of killing each other, calling each other out to duels, being drafted to war, fighting it out. Young men Experience all that metaphorically while growing up—experience sexism aggression opposition competitiveness through roles & avatars. This gets them out of the extreme stereotyping of their normative, dualist identity-forming required in the ‘normal’ world. Number 1 game in the world is: #LeagueofLegends. Number 2 is: #WorldofWarcraft. Number 3 is: #Minecraft. Number 4 is: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, #Siege. Number 5 is: #AmongUs. Followed by: #CallofDuty, #AngryBirds, #CandyCrush, #Destiny2. For more on #SpeakSex, go to https://Speaksexpodcast.com For totes, books, art go to https://Eurydice.net. ⚡️ For Apple subscribe to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-sex-with-eve/id1448261953 ⚡️For video, subscribe to https://YouTube.com/SpeakSexwithEveEurydice ⚡️ facebook.com/Speaksexpodcast #speaksexpodcast #onlinegaming #videogames #gaming #gamingcommunity #gamerlife --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/speaksex/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/speaksex/support