- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Thanks for the kind comment Colt. I'm a writer by trade, so when someone compliments my writing, it means a lot.
For some reason I can't seem to shake the feeling that this argument has become a tad shallow. Keep in mind that I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 about an hour ago and I'm not in the most diplomatic of moods, so please take this with a grain of salt. All the same, I don't even understand why gender should matter to anyone when playing a video game. I've said in other posts that I see games as simply the evolution of poker night. If all I wanted from a game was a challenge or an imaginative experience, I'd play through a campaign or against bots. When I play multi games, it's because I want to interact with actual human beings. In that case, why should gender even be an issue? Guy or girl, at least there's a person controlling the space marine you just fragged.
Simply because of how games are perceived in our culture, I think it'll be a long time before there are as many girl gamers as guys. But why should that matter? Unless you're trying to get laid by playing Unreal Tournament (highly unlikely), the gender of the people you're fragging shouldn't really be your major concern. Your major concern should be finding the most ridiculously awesome way to reduce them to their component molecules. And all you ever see is an avatar anyway. You wouldn't know who your opponent was even if you wanted to. So in a sense gender is kind of a moot point. You could be playing against a hermaphrodite, for all you care. Maybe someone with gills and a trunk. I say as long as they can hold a gamepad or a mouse, bring 'em on.
Holy Forerunners, I did NOT just quote George W. Bush......
[sulks in corner]