Are Girl Gamers Underestimated?
SodaHead Gaming
2012/06/19 13:00:00
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E3 wrapped up last weekend, and it wasn't long before actress and Ubisoft host Aisha Taylor was inundated with hate mail accusing her of not being a real gamer. She fired back on Facebook, arguing that she has been a gamer all her life, and could probably beat a lot of the offending guys on Halo. This week, Kotaku writer Katie Williams expressed similar frustrations with her time at E3.
In an opinion article titled "So What If I'm A Woman? Let Me Play The Damn Game," Williams recalls how she was "guided towards the Facebook games," and walked through the simplest first-person shooter mechanics as if she couldn't possibly have a clue how to work them. She calls the experience a "hurtful underestimation of my capabilities, both as a journalist and as a gamer." Do you think girl gamers are underestimated, or did Taylor and Williams just have some bad experiences?
In an opinion article titled "So What If I'm A Woman? Let Me Play The Damn Game," Williams recalls how she was "guided towards the Facebook games," and walked through the simplest first-person shooter mechanics as if she couldn't possibly have a clue how to work them. She calls the experience a "hurtful underestimation of my capabilities, both as a journalist and as a gamer." Do you think girl gamers are underestimated, or did Taylor and Williams just have some bad experiences?
Top Opinion
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kyle 2012/06/19 16:45:46
I'm kind of used to it, though. My sister and I grew up playing SNES, PS1, and Dreamcast together, so I never really considered people who were anti-girl gamer because it was a common thing for girls to play video games. (My sister was always better than me, I admit. I've had to use video games to build up my fine motor skills and I'm two years younger than her, so I'm making excuses here.)
I've also dated girls who played video games, so again...I'm used to it.
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As in women who behave like guys, and aggressively play the sexual field, and use guys the same way those kind of guys use women. Which would be a much more interesting topic.
Andswering the qestion: Yeah, as in many other arenas, women are underestimated in their gaming ability.
Girl joins
"Hello, yeah-"
Everyone else in the lobby"GIRL!!!! THEY EXIST!! I THOUGHT THEY WERE EXTINCT!!"
So yeah, point made.
Now I voted yes because most people who play games are not adults or in any way mature. When I play with random people who are in their teens or early 20's and a woman shows up it can get so bad that I'm embarrassed to be seen being grouped with them.
Me: Okay guys, leave him alone, he's just a kid.
Kid: I'm a girl.
Me: Ooooh...*siiiiigh* ouch, my bad.
Or...:
Me: Big deal. So what if you got beat by a girl? That doesn't matter. What matters is she's good.
Girl: I'm a BOY!!!
Me: Oops, *snicker* lol, oh snap. Sorryyy.
At this point I'm sure the kid wants his revenge lol.
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They're also still mostly considered in terms of their sex appeal rather than in terms of their skill or whether it's fun to play against or with them. Granted, most male gamers don't seem to particularly about the skill of other players outside of the homophobic 12 year olds who are scared of their own sexuality that have inundated Xbox Live, so there's not a whole lot of basis for how they should be considered if they were to be considered in the same way as their peers.
There are girl gamers but I think they are all in the closet about it.