Girl Gaming?

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Original post by harinimnida

Really? Perhaps they should grow up. They're obviously insecure about themselves if being called their own gender on a game affects them. And if it does affect them so horrendously, turn the game off, walk away, go outside.

Why should they have to come off the game? Anyway this has got too deep 😂 I was only saying how girl gamers are SOMETIMES criticised for being girl gamers, that's all

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999tigger

19

About 35% of players in WOW are female, so thats about 2.5 -3.5m females depending on what part of the lifecycle its at. If they are good enough they earn their place and their are lots of objective meters that measure aspects of performance.

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DanB1991

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Girls and women who play video games are not *girl gamers*, you wouldn't call a boy or man who plays video games a *boy gamer*. They're simply gamers and anyone with any decent sense of maturity recognises this.

That being said the term *girl gamer* often applies to girls who take pictures in a semi-pornographic (if not a fully pornogrpahic matter) for either attention, modelling or media purposes. "Oh look I game, but I'm a girl! Look how unique and quirky I am".... yeah I don't care, I'm going back to Dark Souls.

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 27

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Original post by DanB1991

Girls and women who play video games are not *girl gamers*, you wouldn't call a boy or man who plays video games a *boy gamer*. They're simply gamers and anyone with any decent sense of maturity recognises this.

That being said the term *girl gamer* often applies to girls who take pictures in a semi-pornographic (if not a fully pornogrpahic matter) for either attention, modelling or media purposes. "Oh look I game, but I'm a girl! Look how unique and quirky I am".... yeah I don't care, I'm going back onto Dark Souls.

Yeah I get what you mean

Reply 28

KhaleesiStorm

I'm one of two girls in my year who own an Xbox and both of us mainly play Assassins Creed games. I really love Syndicate and am quite good at the AC games as I find I'm more observant than guys and also don't go in all guns blazing when playing COD and such, often sneaking in kills and such. Of course some guys say I only do it for attention but I really enjoy playing AC and RPGs though I would like some other games not just aimed at a mainly male demographic. (Then again I do have Zoo Tycoon and Lego Jurrassic World for my Xbox One)

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Rum Ham

20

I've never been criticised by a guy for playing games. It usually girls that do the criticising. They say you only play games to impress guys or that you aren't a true gamer unless you play famous modern games like COD, Fallout. Guys have either been neutral or happy that I play games and treat me like one of the guys - they don't take it easy on me, especially not on UT2004 :laugh:

Reply 30

lNurl

19

I play LoL and nobody in my team/enemy team knows what's my gender, I don't have girly name, and therefore I never get critised or praised for being girl computer game player.

I don't do it because I don't want:
1)unwanted attention
2)more unwanted attention

Tbh it depends on individual, if you are average player, there is no point to shoving it into guys face saying you are a girl.

Also, whenever I get asked what are my hobbies I honestly say, video games, and I never had any problems with it.

Reply 31

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Yeah, I get what you are saying about the term "girl gamer" but for the purpose of the question I had to distinguish that it was about girls on games :smile:

There is always going to people people like that :/ just gotta mute them :biggrin:

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I think the reason boys are like "omg ur so good for a girl lmao etc etc" is because they're in a sense tryna pull, like when they say that 90% of the time they're hoping that you'll answer back with a "aww thank you x" (or something along the lines of that)

Reply 33

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Original post by a_regular_asian

I think the reason boys are like "omg ur so good for a girl lmao etc etc" is because they're in a sense tryna pull, like when they say that 90% of the time they're hoping that you'll answer back with a "aww thank you x" (or something along the lines of that)

Yeah I guess :/ and it makes it all the better when you play better than them and prove being a girl doesn't matter :biggrin:

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Original post by govtandpolitics

Yeah I guess :/ and it makes it all the better when you play better than them and prove being a girl doesn't matter :biggrin:

True true

I have a lot of female friends who, ngl, are really good at games :beard:

but obviously that doesnt matter :biggrin:

(as in their gender not their skills lmao)

Reply 35

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Original post by a_regular_asian

True true

I have a lot of female friends who, ngl, are really good at games :beard:

but obviously that doesnt matter :biggrin:

(as in their gender not their skills lmao)

No, of course not :biggrin:

if anything, girls will be better than guys soon :wink:

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Original post by govtandpolitics

No, of course not :biggrin:

if anything, girls will be better than guys soon :wink:

Well, girls have already been better than boys from the start :wink:

Reply 37

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Original post by a_regular_asian

Well, girls have already been better than boys from the start :wink:

Obviously

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Original post by govtandpolitics

Obviously

Also vice versa, there's been boys better than girls too XD

I think the level between professional male and female players are the same tbh, just you see more of the males

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