Attn GamerGurlz

seemae

In a few online games I've been amused to watch players around me tell everyone that I don't exist. Well, not me specifically, but all women games.

Too true. The moment you step into a MMO you're not actually a girl. You can't be a girl. The kicker is that with MMO's specifically, the latest statistic I read is that approximately 40% of MMO players are female.

I think an important distinction needs to be made between two very different types of "hot girl gamers":

1. People like Olivia Munn who jumped on a meal ticket and

2. Girls who have been gaming all their lives and have either been good looking their entire lives or have become good looking in their adult lives.

Very important distinction. Almost all of my friends my entire life have been nerds or gamers (usually they're both), and I happen to be good-looking (I think so, anyway). Not Olivia Munn good-looking but attractive. We didn't become friends for that reason, though. We became friends because of a mutual love for Nintendo, D&D and Magic: The Gathering.

I'm not bothered by hot chicks jumping on the girl gamer bandwagon, though. If nerds want to fantasize about her while watching Attack of the Show, go for it. I'll just change the input on my TV, boot up my console and carry on.

We don't exist, we aren't even here right now having this conversation...............IT'S A TRAP!

Keep it secret! Keep it safe! xD

Also - related, and for your amusement:
http://dirtythrones.tumblr.com/post/3494567043

Mrs_McFadden

To be honest in my gaming experience I preferred playing with the males. ROFL. I played a beta RTS econ/political text based simulator for a few years and I was one of very few women to play the game and it was far less *drama* but enough..HAHA..women have a different brand of excoriation that can just be exhausting to deal with in gaming IMO.

I've played the above not to be named RTS, Eve Online, Warhammer, I'm only naming these games because they are MMORPG's and have blatant high interaction with other live players. I always heard the joke about 'there is no such thing as women' BS, but uh, we had to use Ventrilo??? So they heard my voice and yeah, there were couples that played as teams in in guilds and corps so really, I don't see what all the damned fuss is about. We exist. Most male gamers, I think, aren't stupid enough to think we aren't out there. What is stupid however is the huge presumption that gamers are ugly, have no life, and aren't worthy of being with. While I completely understand why those stereotypes exist (thanks a lot WoW black hole from hell) ..it's fecking ANNOYING to encounter anytime you're outed as a gamer. That's right..OUTED. So I relate to the loser-ish aspect of gaming in this way: I never want to admit to anyone I meet in my adult RL that I'm a gamer.
I'm not supposed to be. I live in an upper middle class neighborhood full of professionals and uber SAHM's..I'm a SAHM..if I even mentioned that I *gasp* play games...I think they'd label me as the neighborhood freak and not really see me as normal ..well..there are multiple reasons for that ROFL :laugh:


I really don't even care about 'gaming cred' but my father was in the military and did computer work for them (nope I don't know exactly wtf he did, I was a kid and I didn't care) during the 80's and I played a LOT of D&D back then because he introduced me to it HAHA ...Tetris is my first game addiction. I don't really have the love for Pokemon and other games that a lot of other gamers do. I liked zoning out in Tetris and I kicked *kitten*..it wasn't until the new platforms arrived did anything in gaming grab my attention. I'm a reader by nature, an avid voracious reader- I didn't want to bother with horrible graphics and lame plots. Sorry if that's a cop out because I know a lot of more 'purist' gamers think that wanting a plot is just too stupid but I read the Halo books before I ever played. (sci fi fan since childhood). That's the only reason why I ever wanted to play Halo...

Oh and we're not really comic book readers too right? I like comic books..and frankly I just am at an age where I do not care whether what I like is cool or not, geeky or not, what other people like or enjoy, I'm living my life to enjoy. So comic books are fun, so are games, and so are my books :flowerforyou:

Boys that want gamer girls to be in bikinis can FO. :sick:

I hated also the new Dead Space ads where the moms were shocked and awed by the horror..oh please. :grumble: