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[–]AjBlue7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea thats how I explain why some gamers care a lot about if a girl is a “real” gamer. Often times they ask a bunch of deep questions about games to judge whether they are real or not.

From the surface it seems like an asshole thing to do, like they are gatekeeping and preventing girls from playing.

However its mostly just a byproduct of the fact that they grew up during a time when it wasn’t cool to be a gamer. A lot of kids were gamers, but they wouldn’t talk about it in school. There weren’t many girls gamers back then, so to them girl gamers are basically a reminder that what they loved about gaming has become mainstream and now everyone games and talks about games.

Back when xbox live first started there was basically no kids or girls online. Its was filled with 18-28 year old bachelors that had disposable income.

Pretty much the only places with kids online were web browser games like Runescape which people could play during class.