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There are lots of gamer girl stereotypes in the internet and common joke is to say that chicks don't even exist in the gaming world, there are only guys and guys pretending to be girls. Especially in MMOs players usually assume that you're one of the guys and never has anyone guessed my sex without me giving any hints. Usually I have to do something girly like collect flowers, be extra nice or talk about my love life to raise any suspicion but even then most fellow players think that I'm just being a bit gay. That's why I usually don't see myself representing the stereotypic female game enthusiast but that picture really hit a vulnerable spot.
Post some of the stereotypes you know in comment section and I'll write about them in a post some day in the future.
While looking at some of the female PR-gamers, like Ubisoft's Frag Dolls, it's clear that a girl gamer must also have other characteristics in her look. Having a slender figure and medium lenght hair apparently helps. And it's not a bad thing if you play only first person shooters that are also played by the majority of the 'hip' testosterone fueled rabid male gamers. A girl gamer should also ride pink unicorns. Okay I made that up...
ReplyDeletePink unicorns, checked. Thanks for your comment Tiikerikakku, Frag Dolls are not really for my taste the best examples of female gamers... But I guess you have to have the money making female figures in every industry. Good luck with your blog too.
ReplyDelete-Sybelia
There's a positive side to communication in online games. Relationships and marriages have been built upon the foundations of LittleBigPlanet and World of Warcraft. Gamers who aren't complete cretins exist, and they're willing to travel hundreds of miles to see their high-leveled love warriors. It's like fusing blind dating with online dating, except without the tedium of writing boring "about me" introductions.
ReplyDeleteYou don't hear about this often because people are ashamed of admitting that they fell in love while beheading faux-zombies together in Resident Evil 5. Can you blame them, though? It's certainly not the most romantic of scenarios. Then again, neither is drunken pretend sex that passes off as dancing at a club.
Thanks for you comment GGO!
ReplyDeleteI have met many interesting people while playing online games and several ones have become irl friends too. I totally think that there's nothing bad about falling in love with someone whom you have met through gaming (I think first date involving little bit zombie killing sounds fun tbh!). When comparing it to clubs, I think game-relationships have many advantages over the "drunken frenzy" on the dancefloor. ;)