I'll let Bob speak for me on this one.

[seiberwing]

Snagged this link off a comment on shortpacked and I have to admit, it's bothering me a little bit. Here's the disclaimer.

Imagine if you will. Girls that get just as upset as you do when that boss battle just isn't going well and you you've been hacking away at the bastard for hours! A Girl that can counter your obscure science fiction movie reference with

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[vivian_shaw]

A Girl who apparently uses "girl" as a title, hence the repeated capitalization, and who speaks in sentence fragments. How very.

The whole there-are-no-girl-geeks trope is about as old as the emo-is-cool trope. Yes, there are countless girl gamers. You probably don't even want to know how many female Transfans are out there. It's not exciting that someone who happens to have ovaries likes science fiction or plays WoW or whatever: it's commonplace. Get over it.

*sigh*

[seiberwing]

Unless I've missed a few, nearly all of the Transformers communities on LJ are female dominated and even the fanboy boards have at least a few females roaming around them.

Five bucks says these Girls are sixteen or under and haven't gone to that many cons--do they think all those Princess Leia and Black Cat cosplayers are getting paid to do it?

[vivian_shaw]

I expect they read Ctrl+Alt+Del.

[seiberwing]

Most gaming webcomics seem to pull that one, really. The token Gamer Girl is somehow magical and unique.

[seiberwing]

Context.