Girls have been playing games since the dawn of time. It's not news. Sure there were statistics claiming that the percentage of girls was nowhere near the percentage of guys playing but who's to say statistics are ever accurate? What factors are taken into account when statistics are recorded? Moreover, who's being polled in these surveys that determine certain outcomes? Unfortunately, even to this day, being a 'girl gamer' has had plenty of its disadvantages that can account for reasons why being a 'girl gamer' sucks. Here are five reasons:
5. Random friend requests – What girl doesn't love a wave of random friend requests because he saw your avatar and probably read your bio and assumed you were a girl? The sad reality is that he only wants you on your list BECAUSE you're a girl. For all he knows, you could be a 40 something year old man who gets a kick out of having a girl avatar to throw people off. The random friend requests will usually attack you right before a match is about to begin. You just let it sit there in your inbox because, hey, the game is about to start. So the game resumes and you proceed to get points and by the end of the match, you happen to have about 10 points more than the poor guy who requested your friendship. The game ends and you check your inbox only to realize the request is gone...you must've scared him away!
4. Harassment – Girls seem to
be constantly faced with obstacles thrown their way such as waves of
stupidity and ignorance once they open their mouths to communicate in
game chat while still in a pre-lobby game. It's hard enough to
comment on the game at hand when there seems to be a wise-ass on the
other team who assumes you're a 12-year-old boy who hasn't quite hit
puberty yet. To make matters worse, he's bent on calling you
obscenities because of this and it just makes you not want to punch
babies for all it's worth.
3. Assumed skill – Don't
you just love when that same wise-ass pushes the matter further when
he realizes that you are, in fact, not a 12-year-old boy, but a girl?
This is where his harassment takes a new turn. Oh, so you're a girl,
huh? He might then start to call out your playing skills. So now
you're terrible at this game and you shouldn't even be here. That's
it, you're just plain terrible. You suck. He might even tell you
he'll be your backpack and help you out. Well guess what? Girls don't
want to hear about how you'll be their backpack: they'll probably
want to show you how they can be your backpack.
2.
“ZOMG! GIRLS PLAY HALO?!” – Dude, get over yourself. Last time
I checked, girls have always played video games. An estimated 40%
of gamers are women, while 42% of online gamers are women. Females
ages 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the
game-playing population (33%) than boys age 17 or younger (18%.)
'Nuff said.
1. Girls gamers – Are you a girl? Yes. Do you play games? Yes. Good, now you're a girl gamer. It seems as though girls are automatically thrown into their own classified group just because of their gender. Why should girls be any different? Everyone is here to play games together and gender should not be one of those reasons. The line of gender in the gaming world is too heavily placed on emphasis on setting girls aside. As long as you have what it takes to play a game, go for it. It's interesting to hear when guys say, “Ugh, I got beat by a girl.” No, you were beat by a possibly more skilled player than yourself. The balance between guy and girl games should be blurred. After all, we're all playing the same game.
Do you believe there is too much emphasis on girl games nowadays?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I mind a number of the things you mention, but I've never felt like it "sucks". More like it's "life on the interwebs". 9.9/10, people just behave...normally. I'd rather it wasn't a novelty, that there wasn't a tidy box to place me in, but moreover it's nice to have a hobby where I am - all testosterone induced awkwardness aside - welcomed.
I wonder what it's like to be a "guy gamer" and deal with those rotten stereotypes - lazy, geeky, socially useless...that's the short end of the stick.
There is always problems when another gender takes part in what is traditionally seen as the other genders department. I have dabbled in activities that girls like and met girls who are interested in computer games and other traditionally things boyish.
From my experiences that i have come across. First it's seen as strange. then the disbelief of their abilities in the department, shortly followed by taunting. This is then followed by the mind set of "hey they're into the same stuff that i'm into thats kinda cool, maybe a little sexy" finally there is acceptance.
Now I'd imagine that things are different for other people, but it's always hard for girls to break into male orientated activities. I also must point out that I've never met a girl gamer that looks like the one in the picture at the top. I'm not denying their existence but that's still objectification.
It's just immaturity. Something to get over.
The industry is young and those perceptions will subside as more women get publicity in the biz.
As a (male) gamer, I've always preferred the PC gaming community. It's not an option for everyone I guess, but it usually has a more diverse demographic. Although it's not immune to jerks either.
Even if that occurs on a daily basis, I would never trade Xbox Live for anything:)
Girl gamers are a myth, just like women on the internet.
I kid, I kid. I've played Battlefield games with numerous girls-who-are-gamers, and the majority of the time they're pretty cool. Helluva lot more talkative though.