Reliable Source: Being a Gamer-Gurrrl is hard.
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This was both hilarious and angrifying. I've always had such good experiences with being a female gamer. I'm devastated that this stuff still happens, even in the bowels of the internet.
By the way, "grrl" is the most ridiculous "word" ever. If anyone catches me calling myself a grrl in anything but a sarcastic tone, please, hit me.
By the way, "grrl" is the most ridiculous "word" ever. If anyone catches me calling myself a grrl in anything but a sarcastic tone, please, hit me.
Great article. That magazine seemed to subscribe to the Spike TV line of thinking: Guys don't want girls playing games, they want hot girls "playing" games. In their lingerie. Of course, in reality the appearance and interests of girls who like playing games are just as varied as the guys who play them, so there's no real way to pigeonhole female gamers. Personally I don't like to draw attention to myself as a girl and just want to hang out with the guys because I share their interests.
Also grrl/gurrl/whatever other variations that exist out there are stupid words.
Also grrl/gurrl/whatever other variations that exist out there are stupid words.
Great article. That experience must have been a mix of awesome and terrible. You should do more trans-gender investigative reporting to show how sexism is alive and well today.
As for the Wii thing: The fact that they sent you a Wii was feminist, not just its color. Wii's are associated with young, casual and female gamers. They should have sent you a PS3 or an Xbox.
And the PSP licker: Jessica Chobot. She started out licking PSP's for IGN and she's now an actual part of the staff.
As for the Wii thing: The fact that they sent you a Wii was feminist, not just its color. Wii's are associated with young, casual and female gamers. They should have sent you a PS3 or an Xbox.
And the PSP licker: Jessica Chobot. She started out licking PSP's for IGN and she's now an actual part of the staff.
There was an article I read in a gaming mag a long time ago that this reminds me of. It was a guy admitting that he'd been "sexing it up" for goods and services in Star Wars Galaxies using his Green Skinned Space Babe character.
That's interesting in itself, but the "letters to the editor" section of the next issue was... enlightening. All but one or two of the responses condemned the writer as a sick bastard, the worst kind of deviant, presumably so they could convince themselves that most the their online "girlfriends" weren't really dudes.
This was a short time before the widespread codification of the blanket "there are no girls on the internet" axiom, so I can't help but feel wiser for having read an "inside account" of the phenomenon.
That's interesting in itself, but the "letters to the editor" section of the next issue was... enlightening. All but one or two of the responses condemned the writer as a sick bastard, the worst kind of deviant, presumably so they could convince themselves that most the their online "girlfriends" weren't really dudes.
This was a short time before the widespread codification of the blanket "there are no girls on the internet" axiom, so I can't help but feel wiser for having read an "inside account" of the phenomenon.
Good one.
And hey, I'd gladly accpet a pink Wii (for free, of course), I can just put shit all over so I don't have to bear the color.
And hey, I'd gladly accpet a pink Wii (for free, of course), I can just put shit all over so I don't have to bear the color.
