as both a lady and a gaming enthusiast...
Deciding to join a gaming group for women may be one of the better things I've done this summer. I'm already learning so much about the Mac, PC, Xbox Live, and various other communal gaming platforms.
I've always kind of mourned the fact that I don't know any girls who game regularly (or, rather, as obsessively as I do) and it's nice to meet a bunch of women who do. The community's atmosphere is very welcoming, and I've already been introduced to a host of gaming genres that I previously ignored because I assumed that they'd do nothing but raise my blood pressure.
And, hey. I was wrong. But allow me to also just say that it's much easier to recognize the inherent charms of a thing when your introductory environment isn't hostile.
(And by hostile I don't mean to reference the guys in my general circle of friends that I've gamed with before. They're all great, and I've never had a problem with any of them. Hell, I can woop most of them at any form of Super Smash Brothers and they don't say (and haven't ever said) shit or make a big deal out of it. It's the online gaming community at large, however, that tends to err on the side of gross behavior, requests for tits "or gtfo", requests for private chats and (the classic!) demands for sandwiches.)
So yeah it's just. nice. to get to know some lady gamers for change.
I've always kind of mourned the fact that I don't know any girls who game regularly (or, rather, as obsessively as I do) and it's nice to meet a bunch of women who do. The community's atmosphere is very welcoming, and I've already been introduced to a host of gaming genres that I previously ignored because I assumed that they'd do nothing but raise my blood pressure.
And, hey. I was wrong. But allow me to also just say that it's much easier to recognize the inherent charms of a thing when your introductory environment isn't hostile.
(And by hostile I don't mean to reference the guys in my general circle of friends that I've gamed with before. They're all great, and I've never had a problem with any of them. Hell, I can woop most of them at any form of Super Smash Brothers and they don't say (and haven't ever said) shit or make a big deal out of it. It's the online gaming community at large, however, that tends to err on the side of gross behavior, requests for tits "or gtfo", requests for private chats and (the classic!) demands for sandwiches.)
So yeah it's just. nice. to get to know some lady gamers for change.