What About Female Gamers!?

[Lexycutable]

I'm really curious to know what is up with people disliking female gamers. I keep seeing people wondering if there are any real ones out there, but yet as a real authentic gamer I only get hated on and (very funny when this happens) discredited by my lack of lore knowledge (because for some odd reason I should know everything about everygame ever invented to be a true gamer). Not many want to acknowledge me for my modding skills and even less as an entertaining let's player (yes entertainment taste can vary). Just curious as what is the real deal? Is there something I'm not aware of? Is it simply a male dominated environment with no true place for girls? I really want to know your thoughts on this matter good or bad.

[deni]

Middely Meowww eredeti hozzászólása:

Ouchiewawa eredeti hozzászólása:

What is?

The story?

It was a ♥♥♥♥ story no?

[22b3]

Ouchiewawa eredeti hozzászólása:

It was a ♥♥♥♥ story no?

It was actually everything I'd want in a story. Action, Romance, it didn't carry on to long and wasn't to short. 10/10

[Lexycutable]

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chibilibi eredeti hozzászólása:

Are you a gamer who happens to be a girl or are you a girl gamer?

The difference is that gamers who happen to be girls are, well, just that. Gamers. Girl gamers, on the other hand, are girls that seek attention because they are girls who happen to be interested in video games. There are plenty of the former, but unfortunately there are also plenty of the latter. Many people automatically assume that the former are the latter, so you get hate.

Just want to add using the label "girl gamer" for yourself as a gamer who happens to be female, is also, in my opinion, one of those annoying cries for attention...

When I hear that to me it sounds like guys who are jelious that girls can easily get attention this way, but it's actualy not always the case. If the girl is not a half naked model the tag "girl gamer" will not generate any attention.

[Hatath]

Lady Lexy xox eredeti hozzászólása:

Hatath eredeti hozzászólása:

Just want to add using the label "girl gamer" for yourself as a gamer who happens to be female, is also, in my opinion, one of those annoying cries for attention...

When I hear that to me it sounds like guys who are jelious that girls can easily get attention this way, but it's actualy not always the case. If the girl is not a half naked model the tag "girl gamer" will not generate any attention.

You'd be surprised.

[Lexycutable]

chibilibi eredeti hozzászólása:

Are you a gamer who happens to be a girl or are you a girl gamer?

The difference is that gamers who happen to be girls are, well, just that. Gamers. Girl gamers, on the other hand, are girls that seek attention because they are girls who happen to be interested in video games. There are plenty of the former, but unfortunately there are also plenty of the latter. Many people automatically assume that the former are the latter, so you get hate.

I'm a gamer who unfortunatly happens to be a girl and get treated like ♥♥♥♥ because of it. I should have to hide the fact that I'm a girl to be treated as a normal gamer :/

[Lily]

Lady Lexy xox eredeti hozzászólása:

Is it simply a male dominated environment with no true place for girls?

To an extent, yes it is. You know a subculture's rubbish when a woman is liable to get rape/death threats just for daring to intrude on the totally macho activity of playing (or, God forbid, creating) electronic games.

Or, hell, look at how the simple act of mentioning your gender, or having boobs (seriously, what?) can somehow be construed as a cry for attention.

There are plenty of people who play videogames that aren't like that, though. Just realize that self-identified "Gamers" carry a lot of baggage along with the term.

[deni]

Middely Meowww eredeti hozzászólása:

Ouchiewawa eredeti hozzászólása:

It was a ♥♥♥♥ story no?

It was actually everything I'd want in a story. Action, Romance, it didn't carry on to long and wasn't to short. 10/10

Pl0x no copyrighterimo DMC strike :-0

[22b3]

Lady Lexy xox eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm a gamer who unfortunatly happens to be a girl and get treated like ♥♥♥♥ because of it. I should have to hide the fact that I'm a girl to be treated as a normal gamer :/

Just hang out with different people. Ignore the people making rude comments. Be selective about who you're friends with on the internet. You'll get baraded for anything that isn't white, heterosexual, and male.

[22b3]

Ouchiewawa eredeti hozzászólása:

Middely Meowww eredeti hozzászólása:

It was actually everything I'd want in a story. Action, Romance, it didn't carry on to long and wasn't to short. 10/10

Pl0x no copyrighterimo DMC strike :-0

As long as you're not Konami or Nintendo, I'm not scared.

[deni]

I am not a gamer, I am just an average person who likes to play computer games quite competetively, aanything wrong with that? No
So why should people get singled out for something completely irrelevant....
Because they can.


And there u have it boys n girls, that's why u get singled out

[C4Warr10r]

Don't mind me. I'm just going to chalk this up as a point of evidence for my very obvious theories about how humans work. It's not like you can say you weren't warned.

[deni]

Middely Meowww eredeti hozzászólása:

Ouchiewawa eredeti hozzászólása:

Pl0x no copyrighterimo DMC strike :-0

As long as you're not Konami or Nintendo, I'm not scared.

I am scriimi. SRS? Nooooo SRS? Noooo

[22b3]

Ouchiewawa eredeti hozzászólása:

I am scriimi. SRS? Nooooo SRS? Noooo

I don't even know what we're talking about.

[Lexycutable]

darkangel98s eredeti hozzászólása:

Hatath eredeti hozzászólása:

From my point of view...a lot of them just want attention. It works too, at least I've noticed so far on my short time here on Steam. Yesterday I joined, and I made a post introducing myself. I got very few replies. However, I noticed a post with a girl name and an avatar of a picture of a girl (I kind of had my doubts if that was really a girl, or just a guy pretending to be one...) and it got a bunch more replies and they probably got sent a lot of friend requests.

Also, there's lots and lots of female streamers who like to show off their cleavage to attract horny 13 year old viewers, and get donations. It's grating. Same with YouTubers. I think this is the kind of thing that leads to a bad reputation.

With the sheer number of female gamers, I am willing to be it is only those vocal bad examples that are what people deal with. Play a few games with women gamers in general, and you will notice how quiet they stay. Becaus ethe instant they talk, if they aren't working the room hard as a flirty show off, the ammount of ♥♥♥♥ they get is frigging unbelieveable.

This comes from first hand experience with my wife, how was a very active gamer. But, despite mic set up, never talked in game unless I was also there. Because of the BS the average male gamer, while normally very meh in voice chat, would suddenly turn into the worlds biggest POS.

I used to think it was because in FPS games, the agressive male ego tends to pop out, but after all these years, I just think that it is male gamers are just children when it comes to dealing with women in a game play situation. Almost like they revert to ten year olds, verbally pushing a girl over because they don't know how to respond.

I have tested that with my boyriend in the past. As a girl alone we are seen as every bad word in the book, but as the GF of a respected gamer oh that is all of a sudden ok. The thing is I'm actually more of a gamer and better at games than my BF but yet others will only accept me if he is seen as better than me. Am I the only one who thinks this is bad?

[deni]

What games do u play?