The other day listening to a podcast I realized that girls are in a ridiculous catch 22. They almost cannot be taken seriously in gaming period.

If you talk "like a girl" you don't get taken seriously. But I also have trouble taking girls seriously when they try to be one of the guys. They start throwing out extra swears and talking about how "that chick is hot (see I like bewbz too)."

Almost not matter what you're gonna fall too far to one side or the other. There's almost no area left in the middle for a sweet spot. You're either an attention whore due to being a slut or trying to hard to hang with the guys or you're a girlie girl who isn't a serious gamer.

My wife and I have talked about this quite a bit and even though she really is bi, I admit she comes across wrong in online discussions (on the attention whore side). We could only think of one person who didn't fall hard into a girl gamer stereotype and that was a sweet old (50 years-old) lady who played FFXI with us... and even she would end up on the girlie girl end of the spectrum.