Male Gamers: Marking Their Territory; Girl Gamers: Stop Pissing on My Controller – I’m Using That
November 1, 2006 by Ingrid Diaz
Filed under Gaming
Male gamers are a bunch of whiny bitches.
Pardon my French….
I feel it is okay to generalize as everyone knows that male gamers only play “real games” and can PWN all because they are male and therefore the Rulers of the Gaming World.
That said, I am really tired of signing on to WoW and getting tells with “Run me thru VC, plz” – Sorry. I am too busy playing Paris Hilton’s cellphone game to take my level 60 mage and run your lazy ass through a low level instance. I just can’t do it. It cuts into my time of sitting around gossiping with my other socially-challenged, obsese, whiny girl gamer friends.
I’m all for women in gaming, but playing solitaire and minesweeper doesn’t make you a gamer. That’s like saying I play Madden so that makes me a football player.
Yes, you are right. It’s exactly the same thing. I am blown away by the sheer brilliance of that metaphor.
Now, seriously, everybody knows that girls only play Bejeweled and Second Live with some exceptions that play normal games so they can’t be really counted as gamers. Oh, and I hope that someday there are more women gamers then men, it would certainly be nice since you could call them to play some deathmatch if you know what i mean. ;P
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I”ve said it before, i’ll say it again, I just can’t fucking stand chick gamers that have to make it known to the world that they “game”, b/c they are generally the ones that play fricken Paris Hilton cell phone games. Oh, and then there’s my ex who would, after beating a buncha boys at Halo, yell “you just got beat by a girl”. STFU and just game.
ZOMG. I have a 10850820842 score in BEJEWELED. I will PWN ur azz cuz I am a gamer GRRL. STFUNOOBWTFBBQ.
Sigh.
Girls generally avoid games because they’re cultured to do so. They play a lot of those free online games, and even pay for some of them, because they can say they’re primarily just toiling in some sort of distraction. Then there are the MMORPGs, but they’re not necessarily doing quests or anything — it’s a weird social networking experiment disguised as a game. They’re not playing those games. They’re living lives they can’t obtain with their own effort.
Um, as opposed to male gamers who are doing what with games? Finding the cure for AIDS?
WAIT, there are girls who actually play games. They’re actually pretty decent at them, but then the girls are usually antisocial and bitchy.
I can’t imagine why.
You can’t win either way. I’m tired of this being a male-oriented hobby, but the antisocial ones make me think that chicks should stay away from my controllers.
It is a theory I have that if in-game guys weren’t such brilliant conversationalists other female gamers would not be so intimidated by their obvious superior mental capacity. Tone down the smrt tlk plz and we’ll stop being so bitchy and anti-social.
Also, no worries. I’m certain lots of chicks will be staying away from your controller.
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Okay, so first male gamers complain that there are no female gamers. But then if there are female gamers then there’s something wrong with them. Either they’re not playing the real games (aka the games said guys are playing) or they are bitchy and anti-social.
What exactly is it you guys want? Tell us how to be the girl gamers YOU want us to be. Because everyone knows the whole world revolves around you.
STFU and play the damn games.
There was actually a pretty good comment in all of that stupidity there. Something about girl attitude stemming from the way they’re treated.
Reading all of that insulting nonsense, makes me want to beat them where their pride lays, and yes, gloat about the fact that they got beat by a girl.
Idiots.
And I’m not even a gamer.
I think most of the people I play games with are girls, with the exception of my brothers. Can we get a list of “real games”, so we can get on them and kick the crap out of the guys? I think it’d be fun. Oh yes… fun indeed.
You know, the negativity between male and female gamer arises because of bitches like you.
You feisty thing you!
I recognize the humour intended in the Kotaku post, but it still made me sigh more than anything else because I know that’s how some folks actually think. Still, it’s no more fair to lump all guy gamers into the drooling-constantly-talking -about-sex-but-never-getting-laid category. It just seems that those are the more outspoken, much to gaming’s detriment.
The thing is, I bet if “real gamers” (ie males) looked at who they were playing “real games” (ie…?) with, that there would be a few girls in there incognito to avoid the “brilliant conversationalists”.
I’ve never personally said “y’all just got owned by a girl”, but I do understand, after the usual treatment, how people would get a great deal of satisfaction out of making that statement.
Isn’t it funny that these guys are accusing females of being antisocial and bitchy when they exhibit the same behavior?
Just because the pretty girl didn’t/doesn’t acknowledge your existence in class you don’t have the right to be a misogynist because the internets affords you some supposed anonymity.
Finally, I think it’s pretty hot to be owned by a girl, but then, I’m married and long ago gave up any idea about pwning girls ever again. Right, honey?
I have a lot of in game friends and guildies in wow who are female and they rock! They play their class exceptionally well so all this crap about female gamers bit being real gamers is just that – crap!
I meant “all this crap about female gamer NOT being real gamers is just that – crap!” typo
First of all, who is he to judge what are REAL games and what aren’t?
And secondly, yaaawwn!
Enough attention now, little boy?
Little boy talking about OTHER people being antisocial, that almost made me laugh.
@ Jonathan – Yes it’s all my fault. Thanks for narrowing the scope of blame on this one.
@ Erin (#4) – It totally depresses me when generalizations are made. I hope my sarcasm came through in that post in that I don’t actually believe at ALL male gamers are anything. Just like I don’t believe that ALL female gamers are anything. I just get angry when guys are like “there’s no female gamers, they just play Paris Hilton games” or “there’s female gamers but they’re just fat or ugly or anti social or bitchy or …” Makes me wish there was an /ignore option in real life.
And for the record, my post wasn’t a slight against the Kotaku post itself, but rather the people in the comments, who had comments that made my brain implode.
@Eric, Angelo – I agree with you, and thank you :)
@Barbex – I will never understand the gamer mentality of “this is a game” and “that isn’t”. To be honest, it’s really all a bunch of ridiculousness to me. A game is a game. And what is a “gamer”? Who defines what a gamer is?
Can’t we all just get along and play the games?
I’ll admit that there is a heiarchy of gaming much like there is with skateboarding, skiing, music, and writing. You could technically call someone new to the slopes a skiier, or call someone a pianist who can barely play chopsticks a musician, but both their level and dedication does not match the average of most musicians and skiiers.
If you play a game now and then but not often, I wouldn’t consider you a gamer. Same thing goes for people who only play free games.
I would consider a gamer to be anyone who choses games and one of their primary sources of entertainment and are willing to spend both money and time on it. This is what the average amount of people who play games do.
Since males are more compeditive my nature, they seek to win in anything, which includes the leetspeak and complicated language. If they can say stuff you don’t understand, they feel like they beat you.
Unfortunately, most of the online community is guys and most have this style of play. Therefore, just “getting along and play” is not in their interest, since they want to just beat you.
It’s a selective community, and only those who are in the average range of skill and knowledge are accepted in the group. Trying to be a “gamer” to others is very much like trying to be an actor. It takes time and dedication to show others you have what it takes to seriously play.