I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why most girls don't think all that much of gaming. I don't see what's not to like, there's such a variety of things out there.
Now I think about it, if I wasn't already a gamer, I sincerely doubt Lady Popular would encourage me to be one. After all, surely one of the points of gaming is a suspension of disbelief and immersing yourself in another world. I can plait my hair, in real life no less, any time I want. I can go shopping any time I want. I can't go and punch an annoying reporter in the face. Well, technically speaking I could, but I'd probably not get long to enjoy it before the police rocked up to have a word.
I'd have thought it might be different nowadays. Hell, I still remember when I was 16 and my careers officer at school asked me what I wanted to do. When I told her I wanted to work with computers, she looked at me and suggested maybe something secretarial instead? In what I consider to be a rather satisfacory two fingers up to her, I now work (shock!) on computers and for a games company. Take that, Mrs Hart.