Poll: 1 in 5 Women Have Dumped Their Boyfriend Over Videogames

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

1 in 5 Women Have Dumped Their Boyfriend Over Videogames:

And 1 in 5 women in this game dominating world of ours will not be able to find a date anymore.

 

[A random person]

To be honest, I think it's more of a convenient excuse to cover up for deeper issues than it is an actual reason.

In fact, the only nice girls I've ever really met were ones who played video games as much as I do.

Agreed on both points, and I'd have to say that the girls I know who are especially interesting to talk to also play video games, though that probably has more to do with me being a gamer than anything. Still, they do have more interesting personalities and conversations on non-game related topics...

I just got rambly, didn't I?

 

[cainx10a]

Wonder if our society will become a female-dominated society, since we men spend too much time with our toys?

 

[Christemo]

To be honest, I think it's more of a convenient excuse to cover up for deeper issues than it is an actual reason.

In fact, the only nice girls I've ever really met were ones who played video games as much as I do.

so true. the perfect girlfriend must either:

1. be a gamer herself.
2. having nothing at all against games, and maybe sometimes trying it.

 

[Angryman101]

These statistics are complete bullshit.
Anyways. People who spend time gaming or surfing the net instead of spending time with the person they love or like are just...sad. That's not healthy. I know if a woman spent half the time texting around me i would be fucking furious at how rude that is, so I might as well not be a hypocrite.

 

[sihayathefremen]

Amusing to think that in my house its quite the opposite.
I do all the gaming, I spend way too much time online and I'm the one who has a semi-gaming addiction.
These women need to be locked in a room with an TV and a Console and forced to play some games. They might discover that its actually fun.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

My girl does that, but I don't complain when she watches the same (When I say the same I mean different, but you know what they're like) chick flicks every time they come out.

 

[InvisibleSeal]

To be honest, I think it's more of a convenient excuse to cover up for deeper issues than it is an actual reason.

In fact, the only nice girls I've ever really met were ones who played video games as much as I do.

This. "You don't spend enough time with me!" is a cover for deeper issue's, like a lack of self confidence (on either side), a lack of chemistry, or a lack of long term appeal.

Pretty much this - it's not as though any one thing is ever the cause of a break up, even though people may claim it is. I would say maybe this is just a way of people trying to pinpoint the cause with something you can measure rather than a deeper issue with long term compatibility or something. It does seem a bit harsh as well to blame the entire break up on the guy playing the games as well.

Besides, as Greg Tito mentions, the results will be severely scewed depending on what sort of people use that site...

 

[ninjapenguin981]

I'm in the UK, and here mentioning that you play games to girls tends to make them lose interest fast.

Indeed, there do appear to be a severe lacking of girls that are actually interested in 'nerdy' guys. Well, in my experience at least.

 

[CakeDragon]

What you say works both ways.
My boyfriend gets angry because he comes to see me and I'm too busy playing videogames.

 

[Phantom9123]

And this is the reason they should include Co-op in more games! =P

 

[ucciolord1]

Good thing that I don't have one!
Wait... is that a good thing?

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

CoD starts the fight?

Clearly these boyfriends have little taste outside of constantly-trodden mainstream. These girlfriends are right to dump their one-dimensional significant others.

Unless of course the fight is started because the significant other plays CoD and no other cool games...

 

[Krantos]

This sounds like one of those instances where one aspect of a bad relationship is blamed for the whole thing. If your significant other spends too much time playing video games and refuses to back off for a bit then either there are other problems and this one is just the last straw or you have seriously bad taste in men and I wonder where you found him anyway, because it doesn't sound like he leaves the house much.

Seriously, if a guy is unwilling to put the controller down for awhile then he probably isn't too into you. Either that or you're a royal ***** and that is the only way he can escape you.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Seeing things like this kind of makes me wonder what "normal" couples "do" with their time. For me and my Fiancee, most time is "together" time since we share the same friends and like to go out to the same kind of events. Also we established LONG ago that we both need time for the things "we" enjoy that the other may not be interested in, or may not be able to participate in.

 

[TPXKalTorak]

Be one of the lucky few that finds a gamer girl. Live life happy, fragging each other online and f***ing each other offline. Or if your sick, swap those.

 

[SimuLord]

I'm in the UK, and here mentioning that you play games to girls tends to make them lose interest fast.

That's pretty common everywhere.

And watch out for the girl who says "I'm a gamer too" because one of two things is going to be true:

1) She plays Bejeweled and other casual games and will be just as unforgiving toward your World of Warcraft/Fallout 3/Oblivion/whatever habit as the non-gamer-girl.

2) She'll be hardcore, sure...and she'll be a dull conversationalist, a terrible domestic, and...well...my ex-wife. Nerds are just as uninteresting when they have vaginas.

 

[dasUnbekannte]

Haha my ex fiance claimed this was a big reason for her leaving me, despite the fact that I stopped playing practically all video games unles she wasn't home. It's funny how easily women will turn to something they don't understand or enjoy, such as video games, and use it as a basis to start drama.

Change fiance to boyfriend and video games to MMOs, and you've got my ex-boyfriends.

It's not just women that are stupid about games.

... that being said I'm far more sexist towards women then most men I know.

 

[benbenthegamerman]

I have a plan: we get a bunch of famous role models, celebrities, and politicians to say that there is nothing wrong with video games. Then, all the lemmings who follow anything anyone says will believe so. Problem solved!

now, whose with me?