Go Girl Gamers
October 3, 2009 by Greg Pierce
Filed under Internet
There is no way that we can stop people from expressing themselves and these days there are many areas for this expression. Poem, music, paintings and there are also other conventional way of expression. Things have taken on a more sophisticated degree with the birth of technology.
These days, computer games are major as they become increasingly intense and the people who play them are more and more passionate about their play. During a game, different personalities emerge, different perspectives are shaped and even gamer stereotypes are fast disappearing. It's as though this basic human need to express oneself has become so much more than that. And among the issues involved, gender seems to be the most storied.
When discussing gaming, girl gamers are one of the favorite topics. There is always a bit of commotion because these girls are cracking the thinking that video games are only for men. Understanding what this is all about just might need us to look at girl gamers themselves and how they have evolved from the time they first broke that gender barrier until today when people have nearly forgotten it once existed.
There was a time when girls gamed and were very typical about it. They preferred girl games, of course, like doll dress-ups and virtual cooking. Or, if they ever played something dominated by boys, they usually got special treatment and felt a special kind of high for being singled out that way.
Back then, when girls played with the boys, there was an irrefutable element of coolness that added hugely to their sex appeal. This was the time when it seemed like the world was just fascinated with the thought that girls could do like boys.
Today, much of that has changed that there's nearly no trace of what it was like before. When you see girls jamming with boys, it's almost as if they were one and the same all along. And they probably are when it comes to gaming. Girls now go for those hard kills in combat games and are just as aggressive as the boys. There's the question of whether these gals have actually gotten better in their game or if they have simply increased in number that people are no longer amazed when they see one. Still, fact remains that gaming is no longer men's territory because the women have made their own conquests in equally profound ways.
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