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    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.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow View Post
    If the girls want to be treated the same as the guys then explain why a woman automatically explains her inability to do the mission F.N.G. (smurfing new guy if you need to know what it translates to, essentially a training mission time trial through a cargo ship mockup) on Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in a time of under 20 seconds (under is stressed because at one point I done the mission dead on 20 seconds, I got given the Vet difficulty reccomendation but not the achievement, when I went back through the next time I managed somehow to squeeze it to 19.6 seconds which put MILF to shame with his 23.2 or whatever he scored :P lol) is down to her being a woman and not because she just can't do it because she doesn't have the gaming skill to do so. I think that it goes both ways, you can't not expect to be treated like the rest of us who get mocked for not managing to do that kind of achievement at least not if you seriously want to be considered a good player and a gamer by nature.
    It means nothing. I say things like that all the time, jokingly.

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    Another recent example of how girls can't be taken seriously is a comment I read on reddit in response to an article about how Wii has a huge percentage of the female market share.


    I'm a girl and hate the wii, I refuse to play my boyfriends, I like my ps3 better.
    I this was a guy I would take it as just a statement of opinion. It's not overly fanboyish or anything other than using the word hate instead of simply saying "I prefer my PS3 over the Wii."

    But since it's a girl and she makes a point of saying she's a girl I immediately assume she fits into that category that wants to try way too hard to seem hip and seem like she's one of the guys.

    Maybe I'm reading my own latent sexism into this, but it's just really difficult to read this type of comment and not think there's some angsty girl trying to show that she can be one of the guys rather than just a chick who happens to like playing games on the PS3.


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    ...Isn't the Wii expected to appeal to girls more than other consoles? I assume she was referring to/countering that.

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    This reminds me of a time my friend went on playstation home as a girl to see how many people would hit on him (we were bored). When someone finally did, my friend wated for about 5 minutes before saying he was a dude. The guy hitting on him honestly thought picking chicks up based on their avatars was a good idea, and was so insecure when his plan backfired he started calling my friend names like "tranny" and the like and ran off. We still like to joke about it from time to time.
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    Lulz, sounds like good trolling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphic View Post
    I kinda hate when players assume that you are a girl just because you play as a female character in a game, and then they get all up in your face with messages about A/S/L and other shiet.
    I'm a guy who happens to like Chun-li, get over it! >[
    Are you kidding? I love when that happens.
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    You do know I set that time like a billion years ago and have since beaten you soundly, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garnie View Post
    Today i actually went mad at someone asking me if i did girl on girl. i used 25 swearwords 2 of which iv never heard off and unsure of its meaning. i feel kinda better but its just getting worst. i wanna get over it but im slowly being put of gaming online....
    Aw don't worry girl not all of us are like that. Now what's your age, height, and social security number?

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    I used to have it alot. I remember when I used to play Phantasy Star Online and my brother specifically told me to avoid being this particular character (the HUnewearl), as when I would be one of those I'd get gamers sending me messages, just like you said. I was always too young to really understand, I thought they were being nice! till my brother told me to quickly leave a lobby once because of the things that were being said.

    I always get it when I play on Guitar Hero, when I've like 100% a song on Expert, say something and they're all suddenly like OMG YOU'RE A GIRLLLLLLL and I'm like yeah, and?


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    I get jealous of girls on MMO's. All they have to do is flaunt to the hardcore players, and they'll give her whatever she wants.

    Next MMO I am pretending to be a chick. :\


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    Quote Originally Posted by Omecle View Post
    I get jealous of girls on MMO's. All they have to do is flaunt to the hardcore players, and they'll give her whatever she wants.

    Next MMO I am pretending to be a chick. :\
    Half the "girls" probably are just doing this already.

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    I had a friend who was playing a female character in an MMO, an even though he didn't make any effort to make people think he was female there still were a bunch of losers who nonetheless seemed to develop a crush on him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Omecle View Post
    I get jealous of girls on MMO's. All they have to do is flaunt to the hardcore players, and they'll give her whatever she wants.

    Next MMO I am pretending to be a chick. :\
    Half the "girls" probably are just doing this already.
    And it still works surprisingly well! ;)
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