Reliable Source: Being a Gamer-Gurrrl is hard.

[_Janny_]

Ahaha! The pink Wii comment really made me giggle hard.

 

[Jandau]

Thank you for confirming that there are in fact no girls on the Internet...

I don't think you have seen facebook lately.

And I don't think you've seen a joke lately...

Most of the girls on the internet are on facebook. I was joking to.

Fair enough, they are fairly contained to social networking sites.

Though as far as gaming online goes (MMOs or otherwise) it's quite safe to assume that every "girl" is a bald, overweight 40-year old guy (or an Escapist journalist) until proven otherwise...

 

[Eric the Orange]

Wow. Just wow.

But I don't think 13 dollars is enough to help make your ends meet.

I think he was getting paid more than that to write the articles. he paid the guy from turkey 13$ to make that fake picture for him.

 

[Infinatex]

hahah solid! Nicely done, I love reading these articles.

 

[Sonofadiddly]

God, a bright pink Wii Fit board? How much more sexist could you get?

You could cover it with red heart shapes and pony stickers.

They should have just sent him a pony. At least they're worth a fair amount of money.

 

[poet_lawreate]

I'm an 18 year old female gamer and I have a white Wii, though I'd actually love a pink one. Really. I try to make all my gaming equipment pink and pretty. That way, it hurts and humiliates guys more when I destroy them at LAN parties.

 

[Enzeru92]

That was a great article and story

 

[CincoDeMayo]

This was a good read, but it's also kinda disturbing. Not only did you successfully pretend to be a woman, but the employer didn't seem to hesitate one second before suggesting sexually harassing stuff.

 

[Umberphoenix]

I bet some people from that site will read this and be really pissed...

 

[Kelbear]

Dude, /I/ should impersonate a chick online so I can get free swag too! I'm sure nobody else has figured that one out...

 

[copycatalyst]

Fitting story for international women's day.

 

[FROGGEman2]

Hehehe... Cox.

OH RIGHT nice read, very funny. If it were true, it would be awesome.

 

[Sjakie]

Im just gonna go with 'lulz' on this one.
Keep em coming.

 

[UtopiaV1]

You got that guy fired? He was a dick, but surely didn't deserve that. Not cool.

You got (admittedly quite a few) sexist and downright disgusting emails, and you got him fucking fired! When he tucks his hungry children into bed tonight, tell them why you "...just wish[ed] the [settlement] package had contained some decent games."

*Bats you on nose with rolled up newspaper* No!

 

[ObsidianGT]

I found this site through TheECA, and I must say that I'm glad I did. This site is so much better than many of the other gamer sites which are filled with basiclaly fanboi wars non-stop.

Great article! Btw, besides ColorWare, where can you get one of those pink Wii's? LOL it's for a gift, I swears!

 

[wench]

Final Disclaimer: Not to be mean to any girls who fall under the Not All Women Are Like That(NAWALT) rubric, but if you choose to be benevolent local despots instead of merciless tyrants with all the extra privileges and fewer responsibilities your sex entails, I don't much care, because I hear neither shame, nor outrage, nor a single escapist column looking askance at the destructive things women do to themselves, to men, and to gamers in general.

Hey, no worries. Not to be mean to any boys who fall under the Not All Men Are Like That(NAMALT) rubric, but if you choose to be nice, sensitive guys rather than violent rapists with all the extra privileges and benefits your sex entails, I don't much care. Because I hear neither shame, nor outrage, nor a single escapist column looking askance at the destructive things men do to themselves, to women, and to gamers in general.

Oh, and you do realize that they hire women in gaming stores for the same reason that they have booth babes, right? That said, the ones I've run into have all been gamers themselves...

 

[MechanicalCitrus]

Oh Dear Snipped.

The evidence you use to support your point is poorly written and really fucking sexist. Had you meant that female geeks are just like all other geeks you might have had a point but instead, it was that all women everywhere, ever, are just out to tie up the men with court proceedings, all in the name of getting a pay-off either in the form of cold hard cash or attention. That is precisely the same kind of blatant hate and sexism that you claim to deplore in the male-hating female supremacists.

Would you like to take the Pot or the Kettle card here?

If there is a One True Cancer killing games, it is those who believe that only "The Worthy" should be permitted access to the medium. From your post it appears you believe this to be the male population alone, an unfortunate and obstinately blind approach to something which offers entertainment across ages, races and genders. Gaming females are gamers, just like gaming males. One is not the default, it is simply the larger demographic.

Mr, Epoetker. Your determination to prove militant female supremacists correct is admirable, but misplaced. Such energies would be better spent in not making males as a gender appear so undeserving of the power we hold.

 

[WestMountain]

Is the turkey guy who cut off celebrities head and put them together with porn stars' bodies real?

 

[Susan Arendt]

So you got a dude fired for sexual harrasment. Besides showing exactly how destructive those lawsuits are, the one you should be angry at is the obligatory HR ***** who probably already fired all the interesting people.

To quote a much better article, geeky girls are JUST LIKE THE REST OF THEM, attention seeking, litigious, drama-creating, over-privileged social whores:

http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/02/13/geeky-girls-are-just-like-the-rest-of-them-the-wow-chronicles/

The top EU WoW guild simply bans females outright. Another only allow them as healers, or, as I like to call them all now, staff chicks.

More and more GameStops seem to be hiring females to work the counters now...actually more and more retail/service anything seems to be hiring females-the usual move in an economic crisis. The model seems to be having one guy shift manager and a troop of women doing the entry-level tasks. 'Good' business model, I suppose, because women are much less likely to ask for raises and such. But I do expect a return of classical sexual harassment in the Mad Men style. Or, more likely, eventually the mere allegations of sexual harassment will knock out the shift managers, too, replacing them all with typical 'communications' degree college femdrones who want the job but care little to nothing about the games or the gamers themselves.

At that point it's a toss up, because Gamestop, from what I've seen, mostly serves as a warehousing area for the new releases, rather than a place where old gamers guide new ones into buying the right games. The real man in me wants to see them suffer financially for replacing guys who might have actually been able to play through games with chirpy happy retail chicks. But realistically, most of their customers already know enough about the games they play to simply ignore the extra salesyapping.

Final Disclaimer: Not to be mean to any girls who fall under the Not All Women Are Like That(NAWALT) rubric, but if you choose to be benevolent local despots instead of merciless tyrants with all the extra privileges and fewer responsibilities your sex entails, I don't much care, because I hear neither shame, nor outrage, nor a single escapist column looking askance at the destructive things women do to themselves, to men, and to gamers in general.

Oh, aren't you just precious? "Real man" in you, indeed. Adorable!