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Why it's hard being a girl gamer, explained by a dude

Finally setting the record straight on sexism

Words: Paul Ryan, GamesRadar US
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SuperBadnik  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Im a girl gamer, and i can play games just as good as boys.
DirtyRainMan  - 7 months 25 days ago 
My first DS was a pink one. :(.
SonicX_89  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Very funny.
DirtyRainMan  - 7 months 25 days ago 
And my wife doesn't mind. : )
ButtersPTOM  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Paul Ryan, as someone who doesn't get "jokes," I am very offended by your article.
GamesRadarMikelReparaz  - 7 months 25 days ago 
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Oh, Butters. Everyone knows women can't appreciate sarcasm.

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EDIT: Hey, do you know our comments swallow fake HTML tags? It's true!
jesusfrk15  - 7 months 25 days ago 
heyyyy dont say that about all men...that makes me sad...

anyways, this was a very halarious article!
Defguru7777  - 7 months 25 days ago 
@linkganon
Why the hell are you bashing Halo on this article?
phoenix_wings  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Nice article. Real glad I'm not one of those angry women who takes everything negative about girl-gamers to heart. Or believe that I have to totally rape the battlefield to prove that I'm worthy of owning a console and calling myself a gamer. I think this has to be one of the best explanation of how it's hard to be a girl-gamer as explained by a dude.
linkganon  - 7 months 25 days ago 
one last thing to add to the list. it was a group of girls that ruined our hopes of playing a full metal gear solid game as solid snake on the ps2. they wanted a younger character so instead we got raiden, that really sucked. thanks a lot. id prefer solid snake even if he was a pile of bones and ashes than that he she raiden. by the way leavemealone, stop being biased about us men. you know when i hear that women will rule over video games, i got pissed because if they did, that would be it for video games. video games would soon cease to exist since there would not be hardcore gamers left to lift them up. now in comparison, who buys more games, men or women? the answer is men since hardcore gamers can't stop at one, they must get more and more at a pretty frequent rate, like at least 2 games a month. and girls can go over 6 months with one. by that time ive already completed metal gear solid 4 like multiple times and i unlocked almost everything on it, and ive already have 5 other games collecting dust next to it.
Ravenbom  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Shane Patterson as She Patterson looks totally hawt!
That's the kind of girl you send cock pics and stalk on myspace!

I'm going to have naughty dreams about She Patterson tonight.
Kruiser  - 7 months 25 days ago 
http://www.thisisatesttoseeifyourcommentsreallyswallowfakehtmltags.com

I'm doubtful.
Kruiser  - 7 months 25 days ago 
maybe i misunderstood
iluvmyDS  - 7 months 25 days ago 
It looks like Chris and his pink DS will never get laid.

I hope this gets on the news.
NanoElite666  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Would I trust that baby to save my life? Sure! Yeah, so it involves sacrificing the baby to keep the alien occupied long enough for me to either get away or get something to kill said alien with, but you know...

I'd still be alive and that's what matters.
iluvmyDS  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Shane, I'd hit it.
assassinS17  - 7 months 25 days ago 
i think its the worst when people pretend to be woman....*shudder*
phoenix_wings  - 7 months 25 days ago 
Hmm...don't automatically group men in with hardcore gamers, there are hardcore gamers out there who are women too. I'm looking at you Linkganon.
Stabby_Joe  - 7 months 25 days ago 
I've met many girl gamers on Xbox Live... and you know what theres barely a difference between them and the guys most of the time lol!
linkganon  - 7 months 24 days ago 
assassinS17 i agree with you. look at WOW (World of Warcraft), i heard people call it mmorpg (mostly men online role playing as girls.) i think this was on another article, and that explains why the population of girls in games are high, because their not girls. some of them are those wierd old men who like boys. pheonix_wings, im not saying that there are no female hardcore gamers, im just saying there are more male hardcore gamers compared to female hardcore gamers. i try to have a decent conversation with a girl for any game and sometimes it ends up with them wanting a game i would have never played if i was not with them like nintendogs, but thats only the under the young girls that usually annoy me when they screech. i know some girl gamers, but they are still playing mario party 8 at their slumber parties (i happened to be in the locker next to them) but i got bored of that game several months ago since that's not hardcore at all. i just have never ever had a decent conversation about a game with a girl. they either like it or not, and that's all they want to say in a game conversation with me.
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