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and then, a sudden rant

( June 20, 2010 - 11:50 am, filed under none of the above, tagged as )

I’m sick and tired of seeing females define themselves as girl gamers and girl geeks. First they identify their person with their gender, then they get all pissed when someone else does the same with them because that’s sexist.

4 comments

  1. Suddenly, the shortest rant in the history of geekiness XD.

    dot, June 20, 2010 - 1:03 pm

  2. short and to the point, short and to the point

    dubiousdisc, June 20, 2010 - 3:22 pm

  3. I don’t really ascribe to the whole “girl gamer” persona, but I did fave this stamp on dA because I liked how it is not pink or sparkly, and I like that it shows genero-woman holding the controller kinda like a flail: http://fav.me/dzm3rm

    It is really annoying that, when I play multiplayer games, I feel like I need to mask the fact that I am a girl (kinda impossible if this is a gaming event in real life, things are a bit more flexible online). I don’t see the point in going around proclaiming myself a girl gamer, but it’d be nice to be able to use my usual handle without it being a dead give-away that I am a girl, and therefore have strangers giving me a hard time, expecting me to play poorly. The fact that I actually do play poorly doesn’t help. If I could go around and annihilate anyone who gave me a hard time, it would be a different story. But I’m not very good because I don’t play often enough. It has nothing to do with the fact that I am female, or the fact that I use a Macintosh computer (which is a whole other massive stereotype). It’d be nice if other people realized that and I didn’t have to hear it.

    Generally though, if I leave the “rita” out of my name and play mostly with friends, then I am safe from that sort of nonsense. It doesn’t stop me from having fun; it is just an occasional annoyance.

    Denise, June 23, 2010 - 5:17 am

  4. Well, it was really about a certain typology of people. I have no problem with girls who are gamers, it’s the weird emphasis that some of them put into the fact that omg they’re female that irks me. I get that female gamers are rarer than their male counterpart, but it’s kind of sad to willingly reinforce a certain set of stereotypes without even noticing it. I don’t really know what to say about the other part because that’s just ugly. D:

    dubiousdisc, June 24, 2010 - 11:53 am

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