Before I go on, I want to make it clear that I fully understand there are PLENTY of good gamer girls out there. As with most fandoms/groups the good ones are normally quiet and well-mannered and may even make up the majority of people within that group... however the people who are the loudest usually represent that entire group because they are the ones in the spotlight.
So, today, I give you a rant on those girls who are in the spotlight of the gaming community... the cock-teasing fucktards that make me almost ashamed to call myself a gamergirl.
The burning desire to rant about this started the other evening when I watched a video of ijustine playing portal 2. I had always heard of her but never watched any of her videos.
She is considered one of the most famous gamer girls in the entire internet and yet she couldn't really game herself out of a paperbag. She's a pretty little barbie doll who's head is just as empty.
In fact MOST of the girls I've encountered who say "I'm a gamer girl" are a bunch of attention-grabbing fuckwits. It's like they started playing because some boyfriend said "Hey you want to spend more time with me, play some halo!" and then just because they managed to get 1 kill in they think they are a gamer. From what I can tell, most of the time, they stumble across a kill or solve a puzzle by ACCIDENT. They don't go out and seek games that aren't highlighted in big bold letters. They don't have any particular kind of game or system they prefer or reasons to back up their claims. Sometimes they even think because they play FACEBOOK crap that it makes them a gamer.
FUCK that.
Fuck you ijustine, fuck all of you modelesque girls who don't really give a fuck about games or their stories or the time and effort put into them to give us beauty and philosophy.
Games are, first and formost, supposed to be fun but they are also supposed to teach us something... something about survival, something about history, something about tactics, something about art, something about the human condition. We interact with AI and environments (both detailed and not) as a means of learning more about ourselves. This is what makes gaming so magnificent.
Gamers today are able to solve complex protein structures and find cures for aids. Gamers can be given armies and map out complex and creative tactical positions.
But the girls that often times represent the female half of the fandom are moronic. Honestly, I haven't even seen girls like Olivia Mund do much gaming so I can't even be sure that she's a good role model. (I'm very open to persuasion on that one).
But, in the end, it just seems to me gamer girls found a group of lonely guys they can tease around by a leash attatched to their tits while feeling, falsely, that they belong to some elite cool group of people.
I find the real gamer girls don't parade around saying "I'M A GAMER GIRL". They usually just call themselves a gamer... and they happen to be a chick.
I'm a gamer, plain and simple.
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