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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Female Gamers and double standards


Girl Gamers have to put up with a lot of crap in gaming because it's seen - by some morons - as not their hobby, like guys have some right to it. As soon as a female gamer speaks up in annoyance at something she's being picky, or bitchy, or arguing about something with no merit and should just shut her mouth and head back to the kitchen.


Sister site lesbian gamers, a site that's interesting because it gives us a differing angle on the plight of the female gamer, a minority of a minority if you like, recently got a lot of shit for an article they did a while ago called The Biggest Dicks in Gaming. The thing about this is the abuse that they suffered as a result of being linked to from N4G, a site that clearly has no moderators and must be run by backward 14 year old boys judging from the hatred within.


The thing that really gets me pissed here is that as the LG site also points out, it's okay for guys sites to ridicule and make fun of things in the female realm, but if a female gamer does the same, even in a joking manner - as was the case with the Biggest Dicks article - they're completely blasted for it. The recent 'Vagina Hero' game controller at Ripten shows this to be the case and it really burns me up! (no I wont give them a link, it was pathetic).


We all love gaming people, so how about we stick it to these brainless twerps with their uneducated views and all just get along FFS.