If there are always competition between guys and I just got sucked into it then the stories I told should also be familiar too and yet I got /r/thathappen -ed. So either my experiences are common and that was a silly comment or my experiences aren't common.

Sorry, there isn't an /r/somethinglikethatprobablyactuallyhappenedbutnotforthereasonsyouthinkitdid.

I know some dick measuring comes with the turf. I'm no stranger to it and am a pretty competitive person. I have no real issue with a dick measuring contest that's measuring both dicks. It's not a contest if someone takes a tape measure to your dick then mocks you for it's size. But when I try to measure their dick they laugh or get offended because clearly their dick is huge, they're black. I'm definitely going to stop this dick measuring metaphor now but you see my point. Usually you're one of very few girls in the conversation and no one actually believes you when you say you're into gaming.

All of this suggests to me that you have a shitty attitude and are creating a problem for yourself.

I know tons and tons of women who never have these kinds of problems with men, and a I know a very few women who do, and without fail the women who do are all bitches and cunts.

Hell, I had a fucking kick ass Poison Ivy from the Arkham games costume I used on Halloween the year each of the games came out and each year I had guys either telling me I didn't know who I was or quizzing me on who Troy Baker voiced in which games to make sure I really knew before they hit on me.

Yeah, I don't believe this. I think this is probably a half-truth, and that it's a lot more likely that you had some guys ask you if you knew who you were cosplaying, and you interpreted/reimagined it in the most hostile way you could to feed your paranoid delusions.

And wearing a sexy halloween costume based on a comic/video game property doesn't prove shit. It literally means nothing, because there are tons of girls who do that and have no idea what they're dressed as.

One of the most brutal shut-downs I have ever seen was when a friend of mine and I went to a burlesque show, and one of the performers did a piece in which they were dressed as a superheroine (I'm spacing which one, I want to say Black Canary, but all I remember is that it was a character associated with Green Arrow, who is my friend's favorite character). After the show he saw her outside smoking a cigarette and walked up to her and tried to engage her in a conversation about the character she was dressed as, and her response was -- no joke -- "Fuck off, nerd."