Explaining disconnect between women, video games

Interesting article, thank you for posting! Though true in some ways, particularly about the way the characters look (though I play World of Warcraft and find nothing wrong with my Troll female Rogue looking sexy, and there is plenty of different armour to make characters look dignified and lovely, not just half-naked). While I agree on many points, and I agree that most games “don’t understand women” to begin with, there is a growing female population in may games. I’m one of them, and while reading it, I’m wondering if maybe I am some very weird girl. My dad is a programmer, so naturally, I grew up around computers. Dad and I played fighting games, maze games, and flight sims together, and it was a form of spending quality time with my dad. (there was no shortage of real-life family fun, too – hiking, fishing trips, etc) So I grew up into a gamer girl. I don’t own a ton of games, and certainly one person can’t play them all, but I’m currently in Guild Wars and World of Warcraft, and am thoroughly enjoying both.

Also the 13-year-old girl they got to play a game (I got a chuckle out of that, because “i did that last week, why do i have to do it again?” sums up WoW raiding in a nutshell), may simply not have quite understood or had the attention span to focus on it.

I dunno. Girls who like games, will play games, girls who don’t, won’t anyway. Same for men, though. I think it’s all up to the individual person.