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What is a girl gamer? - Luinbariel - 07-10-2010
I had planned to start this with âThe gaming industry tells us that the female gamer is a scarce individualâ and then go on from there, but I couldnât do it. It wouldnât be true. âTells usâ would imply that a male gamer is speaking to other male gamers about the female demographic. No, I canât assume that position and pretend I fit in with that group, no matter how much I think I do (at least in spirit).
The next logical, antithetical headline seemed to be âInsights on the elusive girl gamerâ and yet I still couldnât go that route. That would be jumping right into a subject that I couldnât adequately outline, and that even the most hard-core girl gamer could identify, thanks to a fundamental flaw. How can you offer insights into something that no one can really define? Sure, you could say itâs as simple as âthereâs a girl, and she likes gamesâ but there are so many questions left unanswered, like does she fit the other typical gamer stereotypes? How did she get into a market that is largely male? What sort of games makes a girl gamer? The questions seem endless and unanswerable.
So thatâs where I plan to start.
What is a girl gamer, exactly?
Like any self-respecting denizen of the internet, I thought Iâd better check Google first. That seems like a stupid thing to do, but if enough people have asked this same question, there was at least some hope that an answer was out there, somewhere. Of course one of the first links available was a Wikipedia entry, and this was pleasing. We know that even though wikiâs arenât necessarily reliable sources of information, at the very least theyâre a collection of what everyone else thinks. So, maybe, I could get a good idea of what everyone else thought a girl gamer was.
The very first thing I noticed about this article was that it was marked for deletion.
Seriously?