Female Gamer Clans Speak Out about Abusive Language in Xbox Live by Geek Woman

PMS

Clan Name:
Pandora’s Mighty Soldiers (PMS Clan).
Female Only or are Males Allowed:
Female for PMS Clan (have brother group H2O Clan).
What ages are permitted in:
All Ages.
Location:
Global
How many members:
500+ Females
Games Played:
Xbox: Halo, Gears of War, Rainbow 6, Ghost Recon, Call of Duty, Project Gotham Racing, Shadow Run, Fight Night, Dead or Alive, Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution

PS3:
Socom, Resistance: Fall of Man

PC:
CounterStrike 1.6 & Source, Battlefield 2, Quake 3 & 4, World of Warcraft, Second Life, WarCraft 3, World in Conflict, Shadow Run,

Pro or Amateur:
Pro and Amatur community
Sponsored or Indie:
Sponsored by Verizon Fios and Patriot Memory. Partners: Microsoft, PlayLinc, ECA

Do you have to be a model to join:
God no! RAWR.

How do you handle online harassment in Xbox Live?
Play in rooms together with friends as much as possible. Avoid games with ransoms unless we control room and can remove offensive players.

What is your clans policy on trash talk?
Playful game smack talk ok; no vulgar or offensive or discriminate trash talk allowed.

Do you do anything special for girls under 18?
We have a teen division, however they are integrated with our adult members for monitoring and protection.

Amber Dalton
PMS Clan Leader

http://www.pmsclan.com

http://www.myspace.com/athenatwinpms

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Frag Dolls

Clan Name: Frag Dolls

Female Only or Males Allowed: Females Only

What ages are permitted in: Over 18

Location: Based in San Francisco, but our members hail from all over the US.

How many members: We’ve been 7 members for 3 years and only just
recently increased to 9.

Games Played: our primary game right now is Rainbow Six Vegas on 360, but we have also competed on GRAW and Halo 2, among others.

Pro or Amateur: We are currently on the pro circuit for Rainbow and
being Frag Doll is a part-time job.

Sponsored or Indie: Sponsored (and founded) by Ubisoft; we are also
currently sponsored by Comcast, Dell, and Seagate.

1)Do you have to be a model to join?

None of our members were models before they joined the Frag
Dolls, so no, you do not have to be a model to join. We only accept
hardcore gamers who can also write confidently and who aren’t
camera-shy.

2)How do you handle online harassment in Xbox Live?

We handle online harassment by sticking together in groups. The
whole ‘strength in numbers’ philosophy definitely helps females in a
hostile online environment.

3)What is your clans policy on trash talk?

We don’t have a specific policy about trash talk, but rather we
do try to maintain a basic level of professionalism. Some of our girls
will talk some trash, but we try to keep it playful and never specifically insulting or offensive. The right kind of trash talk can make gaming more fun.

4)Do you do anything special for girls under 18?

So far we don’t have any specific program for girls under 18, but we have been thinking about it recently, especially since Ubisoft is
working on a line of DS games for girls. All of us love other games
that tend to be classified as “games for girls”, like Cooking Mama,
Animal Crossing, and Nintendogs. Putting together some sort of gaming community for girls under the age of 18 would give us an excuse to play all the fun “girl games” while also showing the younger demographic that gaming isn’t just for boys.

Rhoulette
Frag Doll Team Captain
Community Manager | Ubisoft Entertainment
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EliteGirlGamers

Clan Name: EliteGirlGamers and we have been active from 2004-present.
Female Only or are Males Allowed: It’s an all Girls Clan (so No guy’s allowed what’s so ever)
What ages are permitted in: Female’s of any Age are Welcomed,
Location: I (the leader am located in Illinois) but clan consist of Girls across the U.S.
How many members: We have currently over 90 members (But since start over thousands of members)
Games Played: We mainly play Bungie’s halo and Halo 2 (also Rainbow Six, and Rainbow six Las Vegas, and Gears)
Pro or Amateur: Both We are Pro and Amatuer (they are Pro Girl Gamers in the clan and many Ametures )
Sponsored or Indie: We are currently looking for Sponsors.
Do you have to be a model to join?: I really don’t get the question do you have to be a model?
Geek Woman : I meant a photo or runway model. Supermodel, NO but as a Role Model to women gamers and young girl gamers Then YES!
How do you handle online harassment in Xbox Live? : Online Harassment is common on Xbox live especially for Women gamers (happens to me almost every time) but what we do is if one of our clan member/ or friend has been harassed I write down the GamerTag Tell people to leave feedBack on that Particular Person, and call Xbox Live and Report that person. also we try to talk to the individual and tell him what’s going to happen, what he has done, and ask for an apology. We are very strict with Harassment on Xbox live and in the Clan, we always address that Topic to our members and the procedures that we take. What is your clans policy on trash talk? : No trash Talking what’s so ever from any one in the Clan, No member is to trash talk to one another or to someone else! We have a ZERO Tolerance for any Trash talkers or any Harassment in the Clan or Outside the Clan! If we have any complains for any one about an Individual they are asked about it, we try to find out the Truth and IF that individual does indeed do anything disrespectful they are automatically kicked from the clan and forbidden to join back ever or any related clans to EliteGirlGamers.
Do you do anything special for girls under 18? : Girls under 18 are tracked down and watched out for (meaning no bad word’s used around them, No allowing any guy’s older then they are to play with unless parents permit it and Ect.) plain and simple We just look out for them and keep them from bad environments.

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ACK Ladies & ACK BombShells

Clan Name: ACK Ladies & ACK BombShells
Female Only or Males Allowed: Female Onlys, the main ACK are for males.
What ages are permitted in: In the ACK Ladies the females must be at least 13 years of age, for the BombShells at least 17 years of age for our main traveling team so there are no issues with going to events.
Location:Throughout the US.
How many members:About 40 members in the ACK Ladies, just 4 in the BombShells which are the Alpha Team, and 1 coach for them.
Games Played:Halo, Gears, Rainbow Six
Pro or Amateur: Amateur for now
Sponsored or Indie: Half and Half. JC Media helps out with sponsoring, some other expenses I pay for personally. I like to take care of my girls, they are loyal to the clan so I pay them back in the best way I can.

1)Do you have to be a model to join: haha, of course not. We are female gamers not models trying to pose as gamers.

2)How do you handle online harassment in Xbox Live? I tend to just ignore them because honestly the guys online arent worth my time if they speak to females that way. Ignoring actually irritates them more, or sometimes I just play around with them. For example if they call me fat, I play along by saying “yeah Im so fat, all I eat are twinkies all day”. It really gets them going lol

3)What is your clans policy on trash talk? Really dont allow trash talking to be done towards other clans, or towards each other. We have a “family atmosphere” and accept everyone to treat each other with respect. There is no reason to stoop down to another teams level if they want to trashtalk. Of course there is always friendly trashtalk amongst clan members, but that is all fun and games

4)Do you do anything special for girls under 18? I dont give anyone the special treatment, I treat all my ladies the same. As long as I have the respect and loyalty to the clan, they will be rewarded. Everyone should be treated equally no matter what.

TKS Girls Ownly

Clan Name: My clan name is TKS Girls Ownly
Female Only or are Males Allowed: Girls Ownly
What ages are permitted in: You have to be atleast 13 to join
Location: My location is Savannah, GA, two other members are also.
How many members: We have 17 members
Pro or Amateur: We’re ammies.
TKS has a sponserd pro team, if a girl is good enuf she could join it. (TKS is mostly boys, but my clan is for the girls of TKS.)
Sponsored or Indie: Indie
1.) Do you have to be a model to join: Model??? to join??? All i ask is that you’re a girl.

2.) How do you handle online harassment in Xbox Live? : Most online harrasment, I usualy just tell the person to grow up. If they continue, I report them and have everyone else report them.

3.) What is your clans policy on trash talk? : Our pol. on trash talk? Not allowed with in the clan, we dont condone trash talking in TKS.
Trash talking I get a lot of that I have a deep voice and guys always say i sound like a guy, I just tell them “Well I’m not, and thank you for being rude.” They usuly leave me alone, girls are the worst when they say I sound like a guy and dont want to join my clan I get mad, I dont talk s*** but they usual start s***. I just report them when the get nasty.

4.) Do you do anything special for girls under 18? : TKS does special things for (male) members, (but since) girls are new to them, so no nothing special for minors or girls period.

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Female Legends

Clan Name: Female Legends
Female Only or Males Allowed: Males allowed, but we recently expanded a guy divison.(Diabolic Logic)
What ages are permitted in: We welcome all ages.
Location: California
How many members: 105 total
Games Played: Halo2, Gears Of War, MK Armageddon.
Pro or Amateur: Amateur/Semi pro
Sponsored or Indie: Sponsored

1)Do you have to be a model to join: No, we welcome any and all girls.

2)How do you handle online harassment in Xbox Live? Most of our older girls don’t fret the online harassment our guy members usually back us up and ‘protect’ us so to speak, but when our younger girls are exposed to harassment or inappropriate behavior we might contact someone of the right authority to handle the situation. Or we would just get that girl out of the situation if this has taken place. Most guys don’t know the girls age when they start to run their mouth so when we explain that to them they end up apologizing cause they didn’t know. Online harassment can happen to anyone but our group of girls are pretty good at backing eachother up and helping eachother. It makes us more of a family than just another gaming clan.

3)What is your clans policy on trash talk? It gets very frustrating hearing the stereo-types all the time that girl gamers suck or are fat and should stay in the kitchen, but when you don’t stoop that persons level and maintain your composure no matter what the situation it winds up to be an embarrassment to themselves. When you sit there and scream back at people it’s not only immature but not necessary and we’d rather maintain our image as well respected ladies.

4)Do you do anything special for girls under 18? While most of those girls can’t make it to MLG games we have lan parties and gaming activities that are hosted by our leaders in their area.