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Yes. Just look around.An article from 2009?
Has this "study" been validated in the last decade?
Yes. Just look around.An article from 2009?
Has this "study" been validated in the last decade?
All I need to know about "female gamers" I learned from Kate Bush. When asked why all her songs are mostly written from the point of view of a Man, she replied "I love the way you can take a Man to a toy shop and immediately he becomes a little innocent boy again and that's something Women just cant do".
Man, I fucking love Kate Bush.
All I need to know about "female gamers" I learned from Kate Bush. When asked why all her songs are mostly written from the point of view of a Man, she replied "I love the way you can take a Man to a toy shop and immediately he becomes a little innocent boy again and that's something Women just cant do".
Man, I fucking love Kate Bush.
That's a strident magnificent Women right there.
Like the rest of GAF tonight I am also drunk.
Hic.
I sing this on Kareoke. I always get a standing ovation. For how bad it is. Actually I might have it on Facebook. Man I'm baring my soul tonight.
Many men identify as women when they pick their characters in games
Nope EVERYTHING must be as polarized as possible these days!Setting aside the fact that gender has nothing to do with how hardcore one is at anything. Women can absolutely be more hardcore gamers than men (and plenty are). It depends on the individual, not on some abstract statistic.
That being said, this study is the typical case of a completely ignorant approach to a field of research that one knows nothing about, and a completely ignorant approach by mainstream media to reporting about video games (which is a field they know nothing at all about).
This study is extremely flawed as it takes into consideration a SINGLE game. And not only that. It considers only a rather unpopular MMORPG, which makes it a limited case study within what is already a skewed niche. No one with an ounce of brains in the skull would consider Everquest II representative of MMORPGs as a whole, let alone a massive and varied environment as gaming. It has NO parameter that makes it an ideal representation of either of those fields.
This was likely a case of bored researchers that know zero of the field study that got access to the data from a game they knew zero about, and thought "oh! It's a game! it must be representative of all games! We can use this to earn our wage for this semester since gaming is a popular topic. Hurray!"
Considering a single game for this kind of study is silly, because different games cater to different crowds. For instance, Everquest II is known for its very comprehensive and engaging housing system, which is one of the very few things for which people still play it.
Consider different games or even different MMOs, and you'll get entirely different results, likely swinging both ways. So, besides the fact that making this kind of study is silly to begin with, basing it on a single arbitrarily picked game is the climax of ignorance.
Many men identify as women when they pick their characters in games
As evidenced by all the female e-sports players.
Many men identify as women when they pick their characters in games
Also.
The ordinary people of US of A is known for being dumb, clueless and ignorant.
Also: 2009
ABC News: Women Gamers More Hard-Core Than Men
Picture in your mind a hard-core video gamer, and 27-year-old Christina Winterburn may not be the first person who comes to mind. But Winterburn, a blogger for theGirlGamer.net and a gamer since the age of 6, says she feels no guilt about gaming and that playing video games is one of her favorite activities with her boyfriend.
I am not sure why the percentage of female gamers has increased so much in my lifetime, but it's a welcome trend. Part of it may be that while not many females can compete with their male peers in physical (strength/speed) contests, mental and reflex-based contests offer a pretty level playing field.
I approve this thread turning into a Kate bush thread.
Apart from the derail. Most of US GAF is probably reeling from the British musical greatness. I hear you, so let's hear it for Kate's little cousin Tori. Cornflake Girl was on point. And no one can orgasm over a piano like this girl.
Why are we still giving a platform to this kind of blatant patriarchal embedded internalised misogyny in 2021?ABC News: Women Gamers More Hard-Core Than Men
Picture in your mind a hard-core video gamer, and 27-year-old Christina Winterburn may not be the first person who comes to mind. But Winterburn, a blogger for theGirlGamer.net and a gamer since the age of 6, says she feels no guilt about gaming and that playing video games is one of her favorite activities with her boyfriend.
I am not sure why the percentage of female gamers has increased so much in my lifetime, but it's a welcome trend. Part of it may be that while not many females can compete with their male peers in physical (strength/speed) contests, mental and reflex-based contests offer a pretty level playing field.
I'm very introverted and I always pick male. Picking a female character to me is like playing with a Barbie doll as a child instead of that Rescue Hero and those Bionical toys.
90's marvel animated series action figures were handed down to me. I had Spiderman, Green Goblin, and Doctor Octopus. OH! and I think Wolverine was in that toy bin somewhere.
casual gamers have low trophy and gamer scores
Well this make this article even funnier.ABC News: Women Gamers More Hard-Core Than Men
Picture in your mind a hard-core video gamer, and 27-year-old Christina Winterburn may not be the first person who comes to mind. But Winterburn, a blogger for theGirlGamer.net and a gamer since the age of 6, says she feels no guilt about gaming and that playing video games is one of her favorite activities with her boyfriend.
I am not sure why the percentage of female gamers has increased so much in my lifetime, but it's a welcome trend. Part of it may be that while not many females can compete with their male peers in physical (strength/speed) contests, mental and reflex-based contests offer a pretty level playing field.
Study harder.ABC News: Women Gamers More Hard-Core Than Men
Picture in your mind a hard-core video gamer, and 27-year-old Christina Winterburn may not be the first person who comes to mind. But Winterburn, a blogger for theGirlGamer.net and a gamer since the age of 6, says she feels no guilt about gaming and that playing video games is one of her favorite activities with her boyfriend.
I am not sure why the percentage of female gamers has increased so much in my lifetime, but it's a welcome trend. Part of it may be that while not many females can compete with their male peers in physical (strength/speed) contests, mental and reflex-based contests offer a pretty level playing field.