I don't think the blame for that can be attributed to 'girl gamers', but rather a quite prevalent attitude amongst guy gamers which demands that women 'qualify' themselves before they can be viewed as peers.xXxJessicaxXx said:Which is pretty sad and weird and tbh makes it hard for normal female gamers to get accepted. (For example that guy grilling me about Fallout 1 and 2 because I clearly must be lying)
Actually, I disagree with Freeman's assessment regarding black history month. I believe it serves a very real and tangible purpose still, and purporting that it simply reinforces racial conflict (like Freeman does) is, in my humble view, a bit silly. Racism persists because people are allowed to cling to their prejudices unchallenged. Not because one month each year is spent in remembrance of what that prejudice has previously wrought.Mycroft Holmes said:As Morgan Freeman(I believe it was him?) said in an interview about black history month: it will never end until we stop talking about it and treating it like its an issue. Black people don't need a special month and women don't need to be a legitimized sect of gamers, everyone just needs to shut up about it.
But yes, it is true that women do not need to be 'legitimised gamers'. That's why people should get off their backs and leave them to their individual ways of expressing their interest.