07-13-2005, 01:22 AM
jahcs,Jul 12 2005, 05:04 PM Wrote:Agreed. With the ability to avoid face to face contact over the internet language, manners, and basic civility can become a rare commodity.
I know several women that play video games and a few of them attempt to avoid raising the issue of gender at all costs. I have also known a few males to pretend to be female to create quite a stir. :angry:
The stigma attached to women, and men for that matter, that like to play video games and RPGs is not as acerbic as it used to be. It is a welcome change to the stereotype of the gamer.
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The "lack of face contact" may also be how females got into a non-female stereotypical thing to do. Something such as clothes or talking style gets seen around other people, some of who can push a stereotype faster, while computer games are done at home. Or maybe not, some other people would have to flesh out this idea.
I haven't ever really looked at forums and such until a few years ago, and usually go in expecting stereotypes to be wrong in some way, so have always seen a lot of females that play. I haven't talked to people in school much about it, so don't know there. Both my parents have tried a few times with some games, and neither could understand them, so that didn't really say anything.
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)
The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)