OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1

This article on Escapist Magazine is amazingly funny and oddly true. It summarizes the assumptions that most on-line gamers have regarding gamer girls…attractive ones at that. Here’s an excerpt:

I am a girl on the internet. Yes, I said it. A girl on the internet. There really are quite a few of us. I can type. I can play games with the best of you. And you, my friend, are about to get owned by a girl.
[…]
[boy1] Teleios is a girl.
[boy2] omg, r u serious?
[boy1] yup, i heard her on vent.
[boy2] omg pics, now.
[Teleios] No.
[boy1] c’mon. you’re not a girl if u don’t show us pics.
[Teleios] I am a girl.
[boy2] then show us a pic.
[Teleios] no.
[boy1] teleios is probably a guy using a voice thing cuz she won’t show a pic.
[boy2] ya, there are no girls on the intarweb.

Sadly, this is true. I have even made assumptions that certain people were male when I’ve played games and I am thrown for a loop when I find out that the person is actually female…and yes, some of those people were attractive female gamers. What is important to note that this isn’t necessarily a sexist assumption. In the past, the number of male gamers dwarfed the number of female gamers by large margins. With the emergence of MMORPGs and increased advertising directed towards females, we are seeing an increase in the amount of “Holy Grails” out there playing a multitude of different genres of games! Its actually really cool.

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2 responses to “OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1”

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  2. georgewaker Avatar
    georgewaker

    yea there are good girl gamers but its not true that girl gamers can “compete with the best of them”. find me one female gamer who is among the best of ANY game.

    a good female gamer can beat scrubby male gamers, but nowhere near compete with the “best of us”. i was among the best in the world at a game called “pangya”, in it’s heyday, which i no longer play. the male/female split on that game was roughly 50/50. the best female on the server ranked maybe 20th overall, second best was nowhere near that. that’s not competing with the best, that’s quite a way behind the best. i’ve played many other games in my time and am yet to see a female gamer be among the best players.

    sad but true. i would love to see girls prove me wrong, but unfortunately none have really stepped up and done it. i’ve even attempted to tutor girls into being good, but they’re just lacking in something. maybe it’s testosterone, maybe it’s just they don’t dedicate as much time as hardcore male gamers. who knows.