Lets talk about Girls that play video games

n00beffect

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To answer your question: It's simplicity itself: Their called CASH-INS; sub-whores (and no, I don't call them 'whores' because they're girls, that's just the way the term goes); or, to put it plainly, attention-seekers. She knows she's female, and she knows that that'll get her attention from all the macho twats out there, who only come in contact with girls on buses and on public places, so she uses that to get a lot of subs, become a YT partner, and start getting ad revenue money. See? Simple.

It sounds as though I'm ragging on these chicks, but I'm really not. They're not to blame for their success (not fully, at least). It's we, the idiot male gamers who leap on to anything that has breasts and can talk, who are to blame. And yeah, I understand that it's enjoyable to see Ms. Hotty-Asian McHotpants be hot and talk about games at the same time, but then we shouldn't complain when we're called out for being douchy, sexist douche-nozzles because that's exactly what we are. In my opinion, both parties are to blame here, and the sooner we start ignoring them, the better it'll be.

As Yahtzee once put it(and I'm paraphrasing): The nerd is a tiresomely-predictable creature, to whom the promise of boobies is like something, something I forgot, go check out one of the two Tomb Raider reviews, and you'll hear it yourself. But he had a point. We're way too predictable and thus easily-exploitable. If only we'd grow a brain and stop acting like kids every time we witness a person with an xx chromosome playing games. But alas...
 

Mylinkay Asdara

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Manipulative deceivers who are only looking to personally benefit at the expense of others exist in both gender pools. They are a blight on many many communities, not just the gaming community. Men or women, it doesn't matter, they should not be the examples held up to characterize either gender as a larger whole in any case.

With that cleared up, I will go on to say that being a gamer for as many years as I have been, I don't usually feel any need to add that I am a girl. Either you pick up on that (hello, unicorn avatar) or you don't. Lately, however, this has changed because of all of the fire we seem to be under. I am part of this community wether it wants me or not. I am not going anywhere. This is my home and I am not leaving. If you have a problem with women playing games, I feel sorry for you, that's all. If I have to fight for my rights to be considered part of the community that I, having been here from the time it started being a community, have helped build, then I will. Just as you would if it were male gamers who were being told they were an anomaly that didn't belong. We're the same in that respect and many others, so these discussions are just getting repetitive at this point.

There are gamers who are girls. Build a bridge and get the hell up over it already.
 

Lucem712

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Eer, there is nothing sexual about that video. She's wearin' a ball cap, a t-shirt and a bit of make up. Is that all it takes to get a man to 'Jizz on his keyboard' (as the second top comment is)

Jesus, that's disgusting. It's not like she's there, shoving her tits in the camera while 'playing' COD or something.

You know, I'm really glad that even though the Escapist has a large male pop. that they don't act like cavemen that have never seen a woman. Ever.
 

Lt._nefarious

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I met a female gamer once and I hurled hate at her like she was Uwe Boll and I was whoever came up with the origional Alone in the Dark... Oh, not cause she was a woman, no, cause she supported Blizzard who I consider the WORST GAME COMPANY EVAR!!!
 

Phasmal

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Yosharian said:
TheKasp said:
Yosharian said:
Yeah, if you count trash like facebook and iphone games as real games then it's probably around 30%.

The 42% statistic has no meaning or relevance in a discussion about real gaming (as in something played on a console or PC).
And your smug sense of "real gaming" added with the stupid assumtion that mostly women participate in mobile gaming or "social gaming" has also no relevance. So why don't you bring up evidence for your numbers, eh?

also, 42% is a rather old number, it's 47%.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2012.pdf
Why don't you bring up the evidence for the ESA numbers? You don't have it, and they aren't exactly revealing about how they find these statistics.

Anybody who's an actual gamer knows these numbers are a fucking joke.

Also, assumption that I'm smug is incorrect. I would love more girls to get into gaming and not view it as merely a kid's hobby. Nevertheless, the vast majority of girls view it as such, and definitely don't partake in real gaming in the numbers that industry statisticians would have you believe. With facebook and mobile phone taken into consideration, the number is probably around 30-40%. I'd be very surprised if more than 15% play real games.
If you are keen to get more girls into gaming, why are you so keen to underestimate their numbers?
15%? Really?

I can guarantee that you play with more female gamers than you know, they just aren't `out` as girls.
 

AetherWolf

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I'm a gamer. Gender doesn't mean anything.

krazykidd said:
I just wanna see some girls in tournaments that is all . THAT is what will impress me. I know there are girl gamers out there . So what ? Anyone can play video games , just comon ladies show up at tournaments will you please? And not as spectators .Participate , and beat these guys , and show the world you are here.
There are definitely a few of them out there, case in point: http://www.ssbwiki.com/Category:Female_smashers
 

Grimh

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It's a bullshit argument, there are literally hundreds (most likely thousands) of guys doing the exact same thing she's doing. But *gasp* she shows her face and is a girl! It must be a nefarious plan to rake in the youtube moneys!

By the way when I typed "gaming setup" into youtube to find those videos I noticed 2 thumbnails promising "Sexay Womans", one of them was just boobs pushed together. Man those girls must really be baiting for vie- oh wait those videos were made by guys.
 

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<quote=Eumenorrhea>If a guy did a similar video no&#65279; one would give a flying fuck about their gaming setup, whether they built it themselves or what fucking pictures they drew and put on their wall above it. The only reason people watch this and give a shit is because she has breasts and she knows it. And this is why I have no respect for anyone who calls themselves "girl gamers". It's something you label yourself to get ALOT of male attention.


so let me get this straight. If your female and you claim you play games you must be an attention whore? How does that make sense? Also there are tons of videos of people showing off their gaming rigs and setups just because a girl did one does not make her an attention whore. Like honest to god I can't believe people think this way.
 

Phasmal

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Yosharian said:
It's amusing that you think I don't take that into account...
And still you think 15%?
I think there are more female spies in your base than you realise.
I'm sure you'll disgaree so you do that.
 

Phasmal

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Yosharian said:
Phasmal said:
Yosharian said:
It's amusing that you think I don't take that into account...
And still you think 15%?
I think there are more female spies in your base than you realise.
I'm sure you'll disgaree so you do that.
I think the number is probably from 15-20%, let's leave it at that. From what I've seen on various actual gaming surveys, that's how it goes down. And these are usually games that are appealing to women, so even that skews the data somewhat.

Really though, it's amusing that I can't hold this opinion without getting egg thrown at me. It reveals something, that's all I'll say.
We will just have to agree to disagree.

You can hold whatever opinion you like, as far as I can tell, I haven't egged you. I just disagree, I'm sure you can deal with someone disagreeing.
 

IndomitableSam

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I haven't played much online in the last few years... but nearing the later days of WoW, no one cared that I was a girl, and when ME3 came out I played a few matches of multiplayer a night (and I'll be playing again soon - might even tonight, dunno), and I only ever got one "Hey, it's a girl!" statement. I said "Yeah, I am," and he didn't bring it up again. Nobody on Minecraft cared, either.

I haven't had an issue with the girl bit since, well, FFXI, really. And I'm to blame for a lot of that because I took advantage of the attention. Kinda grown up and stopped caring in the last 10 years or so.

I will say, however, that I sometimes don't play games or matches in things because if I suck at it, I'll be percieved to suck because I'm a girl, not because I'm inexperienced. Which I am disappointed in myself over, but that's how it goes.
 

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Trilligan said:
ruthaford_jive said:
Uh... the real issue here is that she has a glowing keyboard. Since when did we enter the future... and why did no one tell me? I want my fucking jetpack.
I know, right?

The Future!
Last week I read an article about replacement organs, I think a liver in this case, being printed. A while before that an article about a new breakthrough in teleportation technology. Two months or so ago a company announced that they're started with surveying asteroids for space mining. I also remember an article from a few months back about breakthroughs in cloaking technology. And a few days ago physicists might've discovered one of the fundamental particles of the universe.



*ahem*

More ontopic, as others have said; that's just a vocal minority. Ignore and move on.
 

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velcrokidneyz said:
My girlfriend is an avid gamer as am I but I do enjoy giving her the headset to talk trash while I play. Some of the responses I get are hilarious.
A friend of mine does that all the time and it is absolutely awesome to have him wreck faces while his girlfriend messes with the guys. They even had very similar gamertags a while ago--I forget how they did it, but it looked exactly the same, I think it was a 1 instead of an L or an I instead of an L /shrug--so she would invite people to party to talk to them while he played against them, and they would think they were playing and talking with the same person. Was very amusing.
 

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Moonlight Butterfly said:
Torrasque said:
I have been gaming since 1984. I really like video games. I don't do it to impress guys.

Why do you think women play games just to impress guys? Do guys think they are the center of the universe or something.

Here is my raptr. My hours are a bit low at the moment because I'm seriously ill.
http://raptr.com/MoonlightButterfly/wall

It of course doesn't include the consoles and PC I have owned since the 80's. I built my current PC and overclocked it myself.

I have never known a guy personally who games as much as I do. Ever.

I love gaming it's the one thing I'm really into and yet everyday I see that guys view me as some sort of second class citizen or even worse a mythical creature.

I'm tired of it guys I really am. Just quit it will ya. I just want to be 'a gamer'.

Oh and while I have never played competitively I do play multiplayer games with guys who competed in CS tournaments. So I can't be that terrible if they can put up with me lol.
You misunderstand me =/
I'm not busting out my torch and pitchfork because girls play video games, I am annoyed at the girls that are being attention whores, drawing attention to the fact that they are a girl playing games.
 

Texas Joker 52

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I think the problem is that most male gamers, or hell, gamers in general have the wrong mindset: They think of a 'girl gamer' as a girl first. Shes also playing video games.

That's the wrong way to look at it.

Instead, you should see them as simply 'gamers'. Gamer first. Girl second. After all, what the fuck does being a girl have to do with the fact that you're playing a game? Not a damn thing. They should just be seen as gamers who also happen to be girls. Big fucking deal. Age can be brought up in the same way, and unless you happen to be too young for a certain kind of game, age shouldn't enter into it either. If grandpa wants to play Halo, or Final Fantasy, or Minecraft, go gramps. Have at it.

If they're on the enemy team in multiplayer, that shouldn't stop you from kicking their ass just as readily as any guy, and if they happen to be on your team, that shouldn't mean you should hold back if they monumentally fuck up. Though, you should keep in mind that it is in fact a game.

Some of the posts in just the first page, thankfully, shows that some people have a good head on their shoulders and the right idea on how to solve this problem: Take gender out of the equation!
 

ElPatron

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Khanht Cope said:
There is nothing wrong with the video you've linked
Nothing wrong except the voice she's making (can be the mic from the camera, but in none of her videos sounds like her natural voice), the tomboyish attitude while maintaining feminine make up and care for the eyebrows, etc. It reeks of that specific formula that fulfilled my 13 year old mind's fantasies.

Khanht Cope said:
Male gaming v-loggers do plenty of videos just like that for the interest of any of their fans who're keen to know or who make requests;
And they get comments saying they never get laid, that they are nerds, that consoles are better than building your own PC, etc etc etc

Get any male v-logger to make a rig like hers and everyone would be trashing him for buying overpriced Razer peripherals.

TehCookie said:
Because that's what guys call girls that game so I don't know why they can call me a girl gamer but I can't. I am a girl that plays videogames, whoop de flippen do. If someone asks for my gender I usually tell them I'm a gay trap. Everyone knows there aren't any girls on the internet.
You missed the point. "Girl gamer" is a persona a girl adopts on camera just to get Youtube monheis to afford those gaming rigs. It's not morally wrong, but how would you feel if someone pretended to have served in the military or something in a job interview and you didn't get squat because he lied - making the process of selection just a popularity contest?

While the typical "girl gamer" personna gains the notoriety, there could be a real girl - a real personality - making those videos with her looks not interfering with the quality.