[merylsilverburg]

Originally posted by Preventer Wind

I think that there are two problems:

1. It is accepted that guys can play video games. No matter the what they look like. However when it comes down to females some people don't like the idea. I don't know why, some guys picture the perfect women to play video games. But video games are considered a guy thing and girls shouldn't do guy things...it makes them look like.... guys... or something like that.

Yeah, that's pretty true. But then again, let's say that a guy finally finds a chick who plays games with him and kicks his ass real bad...then the guy's ego would be all shattered and bruised. Then the guy would be happy to find a girl who plays videogames, but unhappy at that fact that they're getting beaten by a female. Hey, not saying this goes for all guys, but there are some who are like that. Another thing is that while there are some guys who say "Man, I wish I could find a girl who is a hardcore gamer!" and when they finally find that girl, who happens to be...a little "too guy-ish"....then some guys have an attitude as well.

2. This isn't really a problem but girls don't talk about it a lot with guys. I have never heard a girl at my school say something like this: "I can't wait for (Any game) to come out. The first one was great." You know what I'm saying? Maybe they do talk about it with other girls but I know this is the only place I discuss games with females... Maybe I need to talk to one first

Again, this is pretty true. In my school, I've never heard any girls talk about games with guys. In fact, I've never actually talked to a girl who talked about games with me.

But yeah, Preventer, it appears to be "odd" when a girl talks to guys about games, for some reason. It happened to me: back in eighth grade, there was this group of guys who were talking about all sorts of games. It was during Art class and they're just all talking and I wanted to join in because I've played some of those games. So finally, I mustered enough courage to say "Hey, you guys played Silent Hill? It's a pretty cool game." and they all look at me like Yeah, so I gave up after that. There was also a group of guys who were talking about MGS2 a few weeks after its release and I wanted to join the convo so badly, but I would probably get the reaction as I did with the previous group of dudes.