10 Types Of Gamers You See In FPS Online Play
7. "Gamer Girls" (also known as Special Snowflakes, or "fake" female gamers)
In the early years of digital entertainment, a disproportionately large majority of gamers were men. Nowadays... the majority is still male, however it is now a far more balanced 60% male to 40% female. In addition, adult female gamers outnumber male gamers under the age of 18 - which shows how much women are genuinely a part of the culture.
Now, this page obviously focuses on a singular gender, because men, for all our faults and the atrocious/annoying things we say online (which shall come up later), are not likely say things like this:
"Yes, I'm a girl, yes, I play games."
"Yeah I play and I'm a girl."
"I'm a girl, so what?"
"Yeah I'm a girl and I LOVE Call of Duty!"
*sigh*
My response is usually something akin to this:
You have a vagina. You are of the female gender. You so happen to have a gaming hobby. There is no need for you to repeatedly cram this "radical notion" that women play video games down our throats. WE. GET. IT.
That being said, I will not pretend that women have had a kind greeting into the culture: men and boys alike will happily level all sorts of misogynistic slurs and the ubiquitous kitchen joke whenever they encounter a female voice, regardless of whether or not she is an enemy or an ally. My clan is also guilty of this, as there were several harsh words exchanged between and my clan after this occurred.
Furthermore, there is a notion that female gamers aren't taken seriously, due to a prevailing belief that men are more skilled (which isn't necessarily true, it's just that men are more likely to be encountered in games), as well as the notion of "fake" gamer girls - an internet dispute which resulted in a firestorm of retorts from enraged feminists (yawn) regarding the less-than-cordial attitudes of men (and women) who were put off by women modeling with video game peripherals in an attempt to market to potential clients who were interested in games. While this was valid (I mean, there's "fake" music fans, "fake" sports fans, and "fake" movie fans. While somewhat sexist, the gamers who were annoyed by antics of these models did have a fair point), it also led to the creation of another archetype.