I’m shocked. Well done recording this, bs angel! Though, I’m still very very appalled by this entire post. I admit, I’ve heard of girls making a fuss about their gender being discriminated throughout the gaming community, but I never heard of anything like this. I guess it’s also mainly because I’ve never dealt with people who don’t understand the whole idea of “girls playing video games”. All the guys I know are perfectly aware that I play and are always as eager as I am when it comes to something like Brawl or Guitar Hero III.

I can’t even express how surprised I am. I think it’s absolutely stupid to “stereotype” girl gamers like that. It’s really unfair. I always thought that guys would be slightly more mature in the gaming community, but hey, this just shows that there will always be immature people everywhere.

There shouldn’t ever be one specific “stereotype” of a female gamer. Mainly because you’ve got a whole variety (and not to mention diversity :D) of gamers. Girl gamers can be geeky, girly, classy, tomboyish, or feminine if they want to. It all depends on the girl. It’s the same with guys. Male gamers can be whatever they want to be, so there isn’t a stereotype for a “male gamer”.

I admit, I kind of do fit in with that stereotype about girls liking pink. If I had an Xbox 360, I would totally buy a pink controller because I think it looks cute. But then again, is it really wrong to have something in your favorite color? I mean, heck, if there was a sky-blue DS Lite, I’d buy that. (Also if I get off my broke ass and get a job to actually get a DS Lite.) But it’s all preference.

For some girls, they wanna express themselves through their game controllers, consoles, and accessories. It all depends on a girl’s preference. They shouldn’t stereotype girls to be like that 24/7, because it’s totally not true. It doesn’t mean that all girls are like that. I know for a fact that one of my female gamer friends would probably die if her parents got her a pink DS Lite or whatever. So it’s all basically decisions on what a girl wants.

The sex bit also surprised me. Wow. If that was true, I’d have AIDS by now. Or I’d be pregnant, dropped out of high school, and living my life as an illegal stripper. :P

Keep up your awesome work blogging, bs angel!!! I respect you for taking so much time to blog everything and pointing out this. Excellent blogging! The fact that you bring this up as a female gamer just adds more kudos points to you! I’m saving this blog on my Bookmarks. :D

That is exactly right; there is some innate tendency in the human brain to group things together and discern common characteristics in a given data set. This is how we process information; without that filtering and defining of data, we would be immersed in unintelligible nonsense.

The important thing is that this classification and definition does not blind us to data that disagrees with our groupings. This is as important with scientific hierarchies as it is with human relationships. Our cultural and personal beliefs (that is, the “filters” through which we see the universe) tend to make us ignore the exceptions to the stereotypes, when in fact we should take those exceptions as indications that our stereotypes are incorrect. That is what your post here is doing; proving that these stereotypes are not accurate.

However, people should never criticize the practice of stereotyping (or, as they call it in science, classifying) because of one particular bad stereotype (or classification). This practice of generalizing data is crucial to the way the human brain works, and without it we would not have evolved to a thinking species.

Anyway, nice article; just wanted to throw my tangential two cents in.

My sister often says she had no idea what she was getting me into. I blame her.

Me, too!!!! ;) But really, on a more serious note, I wouldn’t change a thing. You make such an impact and are really pushing the envelope. I am proud to be the sister of such a introverted, geeky, pink-loving gamer. :D (I put on earmuffs during the sex part.)

I lollerskated at the last point of girls wanting pink peripherals. It couldn’t be truer. My girlfriend even insisted that if I ever wanted a chance at getting her playing the 360 I would need to buy her a pink controller, otherwise no deal.

Needless to say, it hasn’t happened since I said that the 1st few times…

Although I am still a mega Halo geek =P

Games are considered immature.