Hope I'm not derailing here,
Charlenna wrote:
And as I've
already mentioned, as an RL girl gamer, it infuriates me when men say
all girls in MMOs are really guys. Funny, G4 did study on this,
apparently 20-40% of the population in MMOs (varies in each MMO) is
played by women, whereas 50% of those who play The Sims are women. Look
at the games you play even, see how many women made your favorite
games, do you honestly believe the women who work in the gaming
industry don't like to play games themselves? 10-30% of the gaming
industry (varies of course with each company) these days are
women. Men really need to start openning their eyes too this, I take
mens level of ignorance to blatantly say that all women gamers are
actually guys as a form of sexism, why can't girls play MMOs or any
game for that matter? My oldest brother was an avid gamer and he's
someone who I really looked up to as a little girl, so to hang out with
him I played games with him, that's how I got into gaming. Is it
impossible for other girls to get into gaming as well, even to get into
it on their own with out the influence of others? If so, how is it
impossible? There is no answer outside of sounding extremely derogatory
and sexist.
(although it is like 10 pages in at this point ^_^) but I agree
completely. A friend of mine sent me an article the other day on
this topic titled OMG Girlz Don't Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1 that got a little chuckle out of me but I think you said it far better here. ::grins::
~ CheshireCat
