Gaming has long been a male-dominated pursuit in the same way as my sport/profession out in the real world is a female-dominated one (check the avatar for anyone puzzled by what it might be). Whatever the reason, games in general are definitely geared towards a male audience. I remind myself of this whenever I have to sit through a male fan-service cutscene or tilt my head at the physics-defying improbability of the outfits on some female characters. Or their crazy proportions. So if you're the type of girl who can get through this without it bugging you to an immense degree, odds are you're also the kind of girl who can deal with the machismo of some male gamers. And by that I mean mostly FPS types. For some reason girls have always been allowed in the clubhouse when it comes to RPGs. But give us a gun and a POV camera, and suddenly it's no girls allowed. But I digress. I think there's a large portion of girls out there who are (A) aware of the stereotypes and sexism and either can suffer through them because at the end of the day they still have fun gaming, (B) play single player games in the privacy of their own home so no one can berate them for their choices, or (C) actively seeks to crush men in online combat to prove the superiority of the double X chromosome. I say this all in good humor, of course. 
