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Dfskelleton

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From experience, I know that most people online know only of women as mystical creatures with a slightly different number of chromosomes than them. Therefore, they react to a woman playing video games as, say, I would react to seeing a fairy.
I guess some women understand this and exploit it, but I've never come across it. Mainly, because I don't play online anymore. Ever. Halo taught me that much.

Captcha was: sorry dave
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I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you post that.
 

Torrasque

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/throws hands up in the air

I tried making a point with this thread, and clearly my point was not made.
I'm sick of trying to explain that point to every person that joins the thread, or trying to explain what my point should be to everyone that takes issue with sometime I tried to avoid.
So argue amongst yourselves if you want, I'm done with this thread.
 

Nerexor

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Here's a thought: Let's not. Gender topics have been talked to death on this forum. Are female gamers treated differently by their male counterparts? Yes. Some guys are immature dipshits that find "make me a sandwich" jokes funny. Some girls are equally immature and love the attention they get by calling themselves gamer girls. Is it stupid? Hells yes, but so are a lot of people out there and that includes a fair chunk of the gaming populace.

Ideally the only difference in how we treat women who enjoy videogames is in the pronouns we use to address them, and vice versa for how women treat men who enjoy videogames. We all know it, we all know it isn't going to happen because we are flawed beings living in a distinctly non-ideal universe.

Rant over, I'll now leave the rest of you to bicker about the broader social implications of a 12 year old douchebag yelling at a game avatar that someone told him is associated with a girl.
 

hazabaza1

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Torrasque said:
/throws hands up in the air

I tried making a point with this thread, and clearly my point was not made.
I'm sick of trying to explain that point to every person that joins the thread, or trying to explain what my point should be to everyone that takes issue with sometime I tried to avoid.
So argue amongst yourselves if you want, I'm done with this thread.
Please do the whole forum a favour and ask to get this thread locked. It seems to juts have devolved into another gender complaint thread and we have more than enough of those right now. People can take it up in PMs if they really care.
 

DementedSheep

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Maybe it?s just where I live but female gamers are fairy common here. I wonder how many of the people who say they never meet girls into gaming would even know if they did. How many girls do they actually know well enough to know what they do for fun in their free time at home?

Hell I use to hang out with a group of people at university. About 5 months into the year one of the guys starts bitching about how girls don?t seem to like games only to find out that 3 out 4 of the girls in this group actually play games (no not just facebook games and angry birds). The guys in the group never talked about gaming around us because they figured we wouldn?t be interested.
 

Phasmal

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Torrasque said:
/throws hands up in the air

I tried making a point with this thread, and clearly my point was not made.
I'm sick of trying to explain that point to every person that joins the thread, or trying to explain what my point should be to everyone that takes issue with sometime I tried to avoid.
So argue amongst yourselves if you want, I'm done with this thread.
If you try and make a gender thread in a community that has major issues regarding the ladies... you're gonna have a bad time.
Non-attention seeking ladies are still having enough trouble, do we really need to go `look at this type of woman! It's awful!`? It's not constructive.

I `got` your point, I just don't really agree with it.
Led to a rather interesting discussion with the boyfriend though:
Him- Guys just don't like it when girls get attention for that stuff because they can't.
Me- When have you ever seen me get good attention for gaming?
Him- Uhhhhhh
Me- Ever?
Him- Okay, no.
 

ExileNZ

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Get back in the kitchen? How 'bout "Get back to the '90s".

This isn't 1998, we're not playing Quake 2 and female gamers aren't some rare specimen in the mould of Mynx.

That said, I don't get annoyed at girls who call themselves "girl gamers" either. It doesn't really affect me one way or another.
 

bruunwald

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kman123 said:
Oh WHOOOOOO it ain't the Escapist without yet ANOTHER one of these threads.
Exactly. Why? This again, really?

I know tons of girl gamers and not one guy who treats them poorly. Thus, my generalization cancels out the OP's, thus all generalizations are bad and untrue, thus we NEVER NEED ANOTHER "GIRL GAMER" THREAD AGAIN.




EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
 

kingthrall

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Whenever I read one of these threads It reminds me of women wanting the right to vote back in the days.
 

SonOfVoorhees

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Being a girl isnt an issue, i dont get why girls make it so. Just do what you enjoy and your fine. People that go on about "gamer girls" are just men that are social recluse that are addicted to games, never want to leave the house and want girls that want that to. They forget gaming is for fun, like TV or dvds, its not life. Leave the house, go to a bar and meet people.
 

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ElPatron said:
TehCookie said:
Because that's what guys call girls that game so I don't know why they can call me a girl gamer but I can't. I am a girl that plays videogames, whoop de flippen do. If someone asks for my gender I usually tell them I'm a gay trap. Everyone knows there aren't any girls on the internet.
You missed the point. "Girl gamer" is a persona a girl adopts on camera just to get Youtube monheis to afford those gaming rigs. It's not morally wrong, but how would you feel if someone pretended to have served in the military or something in a job interview and you didn't get squat because he lied - making the process of selection just a popularity contest?

While the typical "girl gamer" personna gains the notoriety, there could be a real girl - a real personality - making those videos with her looks not interfering with the quality.
Then girls are called fat landwhales who don't show their faces because they're ugly and only pretend to like games since that's the only way they'll get some guy as desperate as her. If you show your face and you look good you're an attentionwhore no matter what the content is or be asked to prove it because there is no way a pretty girl would like videogames (for example one might say she used youtube money from attention whoring to buy a nice computer instead of because she legitimately likes to game).

If they annoy you so much ignore them and don't give them what they want. If guys didn't make a big deal about gurrl gamers they wouldn't have a audience to try to impress.
 

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I do often find it annoying when people make a massive deal about being female and playing games, however I think that more than often on somewhere such as Youtube, it may be that they themselves don't make a big deal about it...but everyone who watches their videos does.
 

mrhateful

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Phasmal said:
Oh do we freaking have to?

I am a girl that plays games. So when people ask me on a game if I am a girl, I say yes. Or if a reference is made that makes it clear I am a girl, I confirm it.
This alone has gotten me accusations of `showing off` (which I totally don't understand).
The only special treatment I have gotten from male gamers is harrassment. And yet I'm constantly hearing about how dudes apparently bend over backwards for female gamers.

Why do you CARE so much if a few girls enjoy attention that males give them freely? Nobody's being cheated there.

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.
you do know you said "I am a girl" 5 times... I would kinda agree on the showing off comments.
 

Phasmal

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mrhateful said:
you do know you said "I am a girl" 5 times... I would kinda agree on the showing off comments.
In a thread about gender and video games?
I'm shocked.
Maybe it would make more sense if you read it, instead of focusing on silly things like the word `girl`, if it offends you so much.

Or maybe I'm just pissed off at the whole thing.
EDIT: Basically, it would be a big deal if I said I was a girl several times in a thread completely unrelated. But here you're just playing sillybuggers.
And unless you have a serious case of boob-envy, what is showing off about it?
 

mrhateful

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Phasmal said:
mrhateful said:
you do know you said "I am a girl" 5 times... I would kinda agree on the showing off comments.
In a thread about gender and video games?
I'm shocked.
Maybe it would make more sense if you read it, instead of focusing on silly things like the word `girl`, if it offends you so much.

Or maybe I'm just pissed off at the whole thing.
EDIT: Basically, it would be a big deal if I said I was a girl several times in a thread completely unrelated. But here you're just playing sillybuggers.
And unless you have a serious case of boob-envy, what is showing off about it?
Okay first of all I am just pointing out that you wrote that in such a way that it come off strange. Second something doesn't have to be positive for someone to showing it off, it all depends on the way it was phrased.

EDIT: oh damn you caught me red handed.... DAMN MY BOOB-ENVY