LET'S DISCUSS: GENDER EQUALITY, IN GAMING AND IN LIFE

author=Asalieri link=topic=2520.msg46284#msg46284 date=1227309782
I don't adhere to the stereotype that girl gamers are somehow inferior in any way, although don't take this the wrong way, dear wife, but I kick your ASS at any fighting game... except for Super Smash Bros. You have me beat there.

Yeah, I know. >.> You always get a fistfull of Princess Zelda or Roy when he's around (hey, he's got fluffy red hair, I am obligated to use him! And Fire Emblem = <3). One day I will defeat you with Nakoruru or Galford, I promise. But you always pwn me at Puzzle Fighter, too. We're even in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, though... and Mario Kart DS? *evil grin* Typically, I am not good at competing in game form. There are a few where I hold my can own, but there are no games where I specifically pwn at competitively.

My younger sister is really good at 3D adventure games, like Mario 64 and Starfox Adventures. She takes in the enviroment very well, while I always miss something. Then again, she had a hard time with multiplayer battling in Tales as she felt EVERY CHARACTER was slow. *shrug*

I just think that previous experience, in real life and in gaming both have a lot to do with the kind of gaming you may or may not be good at. For example, my sister has been trained in how to use a gun and rides motorcycles. She has great vision for her surroundings, and that's why 3D adventures always applied well to her. Her eyes are trained to see quickly and react to it. She does pretty well in Smash Brothers with Samus and Yoshi.

With me, I wanted to be a pilot as a kid, but I have horrible eyes - stigmatism in both sides, one eye is nearsighted and the other farsighted. I never see anything quickly, it takes me a few moments to guage what's going on, which is one reason why I am horrible at fighters and competative puzzle games. When I wasn't playing games, I was reading or drawing. Though when I read, I have to read a few times before it sinks in completely most of the time. While it's not an excuse, it does tell you a bit about what my brain can compute completely before I act. I played a hell of a lot of strategy games like SimCity and Utopia as a kid because of the fact that I needed to be able to absorb what was going on before acting. RPGs like Final Fantasy or Shining Force allowed me to take in what I was doing. I'm still majorly the same way.

It's previous conditioning that determines how you how you play as far as I'm concerned. I don't know how it would fare for someone that's never played video games in their life, because I don't really associate with people that don't game as they never quite understand why I have my fangirlisms.

Saying that men and women minds work in set different ways is retarded.

While I can't say I understand most of how people work because I'm so warped, I know that there are ingrained mindsets of male and female. But there are cases of men having female qualities and vice versa, too. If we weren't built differently mentally, what would be the point of gender, other than reproduction?

I don't like being a woman most of the time. I've hated the fact since I can remember. The only thing that changed it was going through pregancy and having my baby. But even though I try so hard to hide it, I can be as girly as the next girl. My namesake, Suzuricho, is proof. I played Nintendogs. I have that side of me that has always ached to be pretty, dreamed of glorious weddings, write in those fuzzy diaries, and adopt cute things... but if someone would ask me about it, I'd reject everything there with a blush so red it would rival a tomato. I had to hide it around my cousins, and I did a good job - until puberty. Oh and there's that whole patronized and looked down upon thing. Guess I'm not a complete tomboy.

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I'm gonna go play Utopia now. Got some aliens attacking my colony. Stupid alien douchebags.

author=Blitzen link=topic=2520.msg46531#msg46531 date=1227468844
Women don't have as many adventures because of when they're pregnant or nursing they will be reluctant to put themselves or the baby at risk. Considering that most women have children during their able years, this means that during the times when they would be able to have adventures, they would be too young or too old. If, on the other hand, you have a celibate female of adult age, she could go on an adventure. Typically the only celibate female characters you will encounter would be priestesses. Hence the lady-whitemage association.

That's why I went outside the box with my game in making my heroine pregnant during the story. Because people have the mindset that pregnant women can't do much. Well, as a pregnant woman and someone who has been previously pregnant, I can say that I don't do much adventuring in the flesh. I do it in my games and it's more relaxing for me that way anyway.

author=brandonabley link=topic=2520.msg46527#msg46527 date=1227467367
Well I think girls and guys generally don't like the same things so I don't think you should be offended by that picture. Are you offended by chick flick posters?

Ask Asa. I HATE THEM. Then again, I hate most movies anyway.