Killing Like a Girl: The Invisible Girl Gamer - Research

If I may ask one question:

Why do guys want to see more girl gamers on their servers / lobbies / lanning committees?

Purely out of interest.
 
powderbucket said:
If I may ask one question:

Why do guys want to see more girl gamers on their servers / lobbies / lanning committees?

Purely out of interest.
Click to expand...

We want more friends and have some possibility for a live partner that has the same interest/hobby. And some1 that would understand were we come from and not just see gaming in a negative angle.
 
powderbucket said:
Hmmm as I thought :p
Click to expand...

Hold on.

Here are a few of my reasons:
- Having an active female population in the gaming communities brings some normality to it. What kind of a community would it be without females.
- Some men/boys get along better with females.
- A female 'touch' (guys I don't mean this in the literal sense) is always good for an environment.
- With more females, the group dynamics would closer resemble that of real life communities, meaning that there will be possibilities of dates through this channel and people would be more ettiquete with the motivation being to remain in the good books of the other sex.
- Diversity of opinion.
- I can go on... BUT...

...let me stop here.

I will leave the other reasons to other members.

Guys. Help here please.

I cannot speak for everyone because we are all different.
 
Last edited:
I just don't think that it needs to be an all boys club, and it would be a nice change to have more ladies involved
 
Weasley said:
We want more friends and have some possibility for a live partner that has the same interest/hobby. And some1 that would understand were we come from and not just see gaming in a negative angle.
Click to expand...

Hmmm, fair enough. But remember that girls join to feel accepted and welcomed and, well, GAME. Very rarely will any girl gamer join a lobbie to find a lover or similar.

I think what we'd like to believe is that boys want us on their lobbies for diversity purposes and enjoy a more diverse environment.
 
powderbucket said:
I think that's what girls wanna hear :)
Click to expand...

Hooray for good answer then :)

For me, like I've said, I'm married so not interested in hook-ups or anything. It might be a different story with single guys, but some diversity would be nice, and I don't feel that the girls should have such a stupid barrier to such a nice pastime, and should be able to get the same enjoyment and be able to have the same involvement as guys do without regard for gender.

Oh, and with regard to @McCrazieGoalz's side note, I'm also a few years into my 30's, and I know quite a few gamers on this side of the 30 line, so ya, the age demographic is changing too.
 
powderbucket said:
Hmmm, fair enough. But remember that girls join to feel accepted and welcomed and, well, GAME. Very rarely will any girl gamer join a lobbie to find a lover or similar.

I think what we'd like to believe is that boys want us on their lobbies for diversity purposes and enjoy a more diverse environment.
Click to expand...

And the bolded bit: The girls who do join (I have met a fair few of them on my IRC day's) that want that, is visible a mile away. They will be the ones over the top flirty and attention seeking. Girls who enjoy gaming for gaming and not as a hookup will take the gaming side seriously and in the end you guys might be surprised. I know of a few people who actually met their current partners via gaming - in WoW mainly tho :P

I am a firm believer that great friends can be made via gaming. But yea guys constantly asking a girl out or going "OMG there is a girl on TS" drives me insane! (the omg one happened a few times until they got used to the idea...)

I can say this tho - its not just SA men who acts like kids when a female shows up in a game, it happened to me in the UK - I lived in a shared house where we all worked at a hotel. The guys where playing UT2004 one night and I heard them going bonkers at each other. So I went to the one guys room got the details and joined them in game. Took them a while - with one guy pouting and moping a lot the next day since I managed to beat him, but after a while I was just one of the guys playing and shouting.
 
Wyvern said:
I am a firm believer that great friends can be made via gaming.
Click to expand...

matt said:
For me, like I've said, I'm married so not interested in hook-ups or anything.
Click to expand...

Exactly. 95% of my closest friends are male, because I've not enough met enough females who share the same interests as me where I stay (the only ones I know live in JHB and CPT). My husband has absolutely no issues with most of my mates being male. I enjoy meeting people with similar interests and it doesn't matter what sex they are really.
 
Wyvern said:
I can say this tho - its not just SA men who acts like kids when a female shows up in a game, it happened to me in the UK - I lived in a shared house where we all worked at a hotel. The guys where playing UT2004 one night and I heard them going bonkers at each other. So I went to the one guys room got the details and joined them in game. Took them a while - with one guy pouting and moping a lot the next day since I managed to beat him, but after a while I was just one of the guys playing and shouting.
Click to expand...

I totally agree. I was part of some UK forums and left very quickly. In fact, I find Europeans and Americans to be a lot more close-minded about different races and sexes in gaming communities when compared to our South African home boys.
 
If you mean Casual games that girls play like on cellphones and facebook then 43 % looks pretty accurate.if you mean hardcore online girl gamers then it's close to 3-5% in SA.

I may be way off since most girl gamers don't let anyone know their a girl seeing as how 14 year old kids go crazy when they hear a girl is playing.
 
Last edited:
powderbucket said:
If I may ask one question:

Why do guys want to see more girl gamers on their servers / lobbies / lanning committees?

Purely out of interest.
Click to expand...

Ok, I know I've already answered this question, but I've been pondering it, and I think I've come to a realisation. It might already have been touched on, but here goes.

I think a lot of women see gaming as a childish hobby, and they just don't get what we see in it.
If there were more women involved, who understood what we get from gaming and shared the passion that we have for it, then it wouldn't be written of as ag, boys and their toys, and just be gaming, ya that's something that some people enjoy doing
 
matt said:
Ok, I know I've already answered this question, but I've been pondering it, and I think I've come to a realisation. It might already have been touched on, but here goes.

I think a lot of women see gaming as a childish hobby, and they just don't get what we see in it.
If there were more women involved, who understood what we get from gaming and shared the passion that we have for it, then it wouldn't be written of as ag, boys and their toys, and just be gaming, ya that's something that some people enjoy doing
Click to expand...

My sentiment exactly.

My wife would rather have me 'go out to a friend's house' than spend time gaming at home.

Gaming is seen as anti-social.

But, in my opinion it is actually more social than me going to a bar with my old college friends and trying to get the 'attention' of some females or get my ears shredded by a booming system.

I have met a few guys who have become good friends of mine through gaming.

I believe I am more level headed because of gaming.

Yet. Another research also showed that one's response times are enhanced by playing rapid response video games like FPS (First Person Shooters) and sports games, meaning better responses in driving situations.
 
Last edited:
When you consistently refer to girls and women as "females", it makes us feel like lab specimens or something. Stop doing that.
 
Azimuth said:
When you consistently refer to girls and women as "females", it makes us feel like lab specimens or something. Stop doing that.
Click to expand...
You can blame scientific writing and political correctness for that. :) Calling women girls might seem demeaning and referring to a young girl as a women just seems weird. So you get the sanitised albeit rather pale noun "female".

I prefer to use the far more civilized, yet affectionate, moniker, lady. :cool:
 
From now on you should refer to me as ...

3cd2d6a6.jpg


Sorry ... couldn't resist ... haven't had coffee yet. :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top