Lets talk about Girls that play video games

[DementedSheep]

You know who calls themselves a Girl Gamer?

Shameless attention whores who like it when guys shit all over themselves in the rush to get at the rare "girl who plays video games"... and haven't played a video game more hardcore than Words with Friends. The kind of girls who think it's some novel thing, that playing video games makes them some sort of rare butterfly to be preserved and cared for.

You get an honorary internets for getting the point that I was trying to make (I think you're the first in this whole fucking thread).
Internets winnar, please make your way off the arena and rest. You've EARNED it!

There been plenty of discussion in this thread but hey just ignore all the answers that don't agree with you.

 

[Vault101]

Not really interested into Gamer Girls. I'll eventually quit hardcore games coldturkey if I have to for a girl.

whaaaaa?

please explain

 

[Vault101]

Because the majority of Girl Gamers I know are uninteresting. They rely on video game jokes and memes just to start a conversation and to make it last. Even though I play games a lot, I'm not one to talk about games 24/7. I don't want to talk about the lastest patch to League of Legends, about how amazing Portal 2 is, nor Diablo III being some sort of failiure. I want to talk to her about everything.
In other words, I prefer a girl who'll love me more than Skyrim.

Also, I'm just saying this based on the girls I've known and met, this doesn't really apply to all gamer girls.

you eman "grrrrl gamur!" or "girl who playes games?" I mean you could apply that any obessesibe ner regardless of gender

I admit I'm a little like that...don;t have to much to talk abotu since its just work n games

well theres comic books now

 

[The Funslinger]

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One point that I want to throw out is that I'm relatively sure that people who make those comments and people that would love a gaming significant other are mutually exclusive.

The former most likely still being at the stage where putting their dick into anything with a pulse would be a new experience.

If you happen to know much about Rooster Teeth productions, then you might know who Griffon Ramsey is. I personally see her love of gaming, the amount of cool things she does that are related to it, her relationship with her friends and coworkers in a gaming centralized company, and ultimately how little her gender even registers amongst all this stuff as the standard that gamers as a group need to aim for.

I've just pulled my third all nighter in a row, so I hope this is as eloquent as I seem to think it is right now.

 

[Vault101]

I was referring to "grrrrl gamur!". I'm fine and dandy with "girl who playes games" because I bet everybody I know plays games whether it be Solitaire or World of Warcraft.

but theres a distinction...I'm a girl who playes "most AAA core games" and "has a strong interest" in games....rather different ot somone who picks up angry birds now and again

[quote/]What I was referring to in my previous post was "OMG! I <3 WoW! Oh man! captain Price makes me moist! Oh boy! 7th prestige! Hey guys! I tattooed the Normandy on my left teat! Give me yo items now please! kthxbai <3 xxxsakuraxxx" Girl gamers who ramble about how many guys they have under their wings in some mmorpg. Girls who use Facebook only to talk about how great their killstreak was and how playing CoD makes them attractive. That type really turns me off from them.[/quote]

[small/]hmmm...you know I'd get the normandy tatooed on my-[/small] I mean yeah, I know what you mean

 

[DestinyCall]

I feel like this is such a silly and circular argument. Why do GIRL gamers exist? Because if you identify as female in a on-line game setting, you are guaranteed to draw attention from the BOY gamers. End of story. This is not a trick question.

Many female gamers do not appreciate the kind of attention that the more out-spoken male gamers offer to any identifiable female targets, so they will avoid the subject of gender when they can. Chances are very good that you've played with a lot more girls then you realized because they didn't go out of their way to mention their female nature. But some girls like the attention and since there are always boys out there willing to provide it to them, there will always be girl gamers.

If you want girl gamers to go away, the first place to start would be with the guys who happily feed their hunger for attention and praise. Over time, as the existence of normal female gamers becomes more widely acknowledged in gaming culture, this kind of behavior will hopefully become less common, but I doubt it will ever be gone for good. It comes down to a matter of supply and demand. Boys demand tits, and if they ask enough times, eventually they will find a girl willing to supply them.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

invited to Acer by Nerchio himself because of how good she is at Starcraft, despite being a girl.

I don't have a problem with the rest of what you said. But did you really mean that to sound like

'Because girls are naturally poor at starcraft.' I mean I don't think we have a biological deficiency when comes to playing Starcraft I have to say.

If I was wrong with how you meant it please say.

No, I didn't mean it like how you took it. Not even slightly. I even went on to explain what I meant. If you want to think I said "Girls are bad at Starcraft because they are shit at multitasking, can't control a base while attacking their enemy, and can't control individual units in the middle of an engagement to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses", then go right ahead.
I didn't say it and didn't even imply it.

So please just re-read what I said in the post that you quote mined, my reasoning to back up "despite being a girl" is there and I don't feel like stating it again.

I didn't mean it nastily Just that's how it sounded. Thanks for straitening that out.

But yeah girls are normally better at multitasking than guys or so I've heard. (Not sure if you meant that or not either xD)

 

[Torrasque]

invited to Acer by Nerchio himself because of how good she is at Starcraft, despite being a girl.

I don't have a problem with the rest of what you said. But did you really mean that to sound like

'Because girls are naturally poor at starcraft.' I mean I don't think we have a biological deficiency when comes to playing Starcraft I have to say.

If I was wrong with how you meant it please say.

No, I didn't mean it like how you took it. Not even slightly. I even went on to explain what I meant. If you want to think I said "Girls are bad at Starcraft because they are shit at multitasking, can't control a base while attacking their enemy, and can't control individual units in the middle of an engagement to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses", then go right ahead.
I didn't say it and didn't even imply it.

So please just re-read what I said in the post that you quote mined, my reasoning to back up "despite being a girl" is there and I don't feel like stating it again.

I didn't mean it nastily Just that's how it sounded. Thanks for straitening that out.

But yeah girls are normally better at multitasking than guys or so I've heard. (Not sure if you meant that or not either xD)

If I based anything that I thought on "what I heard", I would be quite the opposite of what I am T_T

 

[Torrasque]

You know who calls themselves a Girl Gamer?

Shameless attention whores who like it when guys shit all over themselves in the rush to get at the rare "girl who plays video games"... and haven't played a video game more hardcore than Words with Friends. The kind of girls who think it's some novel thing, that playing video games makes them some sort of rare butterfly to be preserved and cared for.

You get an honorary internets for getting the point that I was trying to make (I think you're the first in this whole fucking thread).
Internets winnar, please make your way off the arena and rest. You've EARNED it!

There been plenty of discussion in this thread but hey just ignore all the answers that don't agree with you.

Since you missed what I was trying to say (which is very ironic really) I bolded and underlined it for you.

 

[Torrasque]

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One point that I want to throw out is that I'm relatively sure that people who make those comments and people that would love a gaming significant other are mutually exclusive.

The former most likely still being at the stage where putting their dick into anything with a pulse would be a new experience.

If you happen to know much about Rooster Teeth productions, then you might know who Griffon Ramsey is. I personally see her love of gaming, the amount of cool things she does that are related to it, her relationship with her friends and coworkers in a gaming centralized company, and ultimately how little her gender even registers amongst all this stuff as the standard that gamers as a group need to aim for.

I've just pulled my third all nighter in a row, so I hope this is as eloquent as I seem to think it is right now.

Yep, that made sense. And yes, I do follow RT (well I try to at least) and I know of Griff. The womens of RT are all really chill people and are gamers just like the guys are; their gender doesn't enter the equation at all. They celebrate their girl gamer-ness on occasion, but never to the extent as what would be considered "being an attention whore".

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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I think it's pretty much common knowledge that girls are better multitaskers. :|

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7896385/Scientists-prove-that-women-are-better-at-multitasking-than-men.html

 

[marche45]

You don't need to identify as a male gamer because people will automatically assume that's what you are when you say `gamer`, which is why I say I am a `girl gamer`. What is the big deal.

The bolded is the big deal.
Gamer should mean someone who is a video gamer enthusiast,and not make assumptions about gender

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'm just wondering why it bothers guys so much if a girl/woman identifies herself as female. I mean is it something we should be ashamed of? At this point it's shameful to have an overtly female username and you get accused of attention seeking?

For all the threads I have seen where men deny the existence of female gamers and say they are only playing farmville and suchlike surely it's good for the ones that exist to identify themselves so games companies know who their audience is.

It just seems like a damned if you do damned if you don't situation for me.

 

[EeveeElectro]

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Yes! *round of applause* that was exactly what I was going to say.
I didn't watch the full video but from what I saw she didn't bring attention to her gender. She's in a shirt that doesn't show off her boobs and you can only see her face.
She is very pretty and I understand why she'd wear make-up, a lot of women don't like putting videos of themselves online without make-up on. (I don't really care. I wear make up like once every few months :/ but women are different).
I think the problem is people can't cope with the fact that women who are attractive are not all posers after attention.
The girl in the video knows what she's talking about. The comments actually piss me off.
'She's only doing it because she has boobs!'

No... she's doing it because she's fucking passionate about her hobby. Seeing peoples gaming set ups isn't something that interests me all that much but I don't hate on them if they wanted to show me.
She isn't using her ass or her boobs to get views. She's just talking about her setup but people are throwing a fit because she dares to be female and attractive and into games in public. She's getting views because there's some guys out there who get boners over girls talking about games. That's not her fault if talking about her hobby just happens to give some guys wood and she just happens to be a pretty young girl.
A load of guys seem to think 'girls only talk about games to get attention!'
No. I talk about games because I love gaming. Just because there's girls out there who pose naked with a controller over each boob and say "Omgeez, I love the legend of Mario, I'm a totes gurl gamer with my eggsbox 350! Look at me boys!" doesn't mean you can all paint us with the same brush.

There are posers which try get attention and they just give the genuine ones a bad name, but you can tell pretty much straight away when they are.

The only difference is, if that was a guy in the video, the comments would be, "Hey, I love your speakers/mouse/laptop!" "looks pretty cool, man!" of course there'll be "u n00b!!11!" and "ur mom!" comments because it's YouTube. Because it's a women the comments are either "attention seeking whore! How dare you be a women on the internet!" or "ur sexy!! I didn't listen to a thing you said but, sex?"

I feel a little ashamed to know I share my hobby with some such disgustingly ignorant people who generalise like that.