On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:03:56PM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> I'll start off by saying I'm usually the only gal in an otherwise all-guy 
> group (and the few times I haven't been, it's generally been a negative 
> experience... the others have all been just-here-cause-my-boyfriend-is 
> and such).

Exactly.  My groups have almost all been mixed gender, but never more
than 50% female.  In talking with female gamers about it, the general
assessment is that gaming is, by-and-large, a hostile environment for
women, and as a result, many experiences WITH women turn out badly, thus
propogating the expectation.

Male gamers under 30 tend to be disgusted with "girlfriend" gamers, and
fascinated with (established) female gamers, and either attitude isn't
fun.  

Of course, any topic such as this is rife with sweeping generalizations,
so take nothing I say as anything other than that.

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SwiftOne  /  Brett Sanger
swiftone@swiftone.org   
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