What the hell is wrong with girl gaming?

Girl Gaming is a joke.

Many right now are thinking I’m performing career suicide by saying those words, but I’m merely exercising my first amendment. After watching the whole lackluster panel at PAX I think I am within my bounds to say it.

Here, I’ll say it again: Girl Gaming is a joke.

I’m not against girls in video games. I actually have sat and encouraged it. Every girl I ever date I am trying to make into a gamer, and I know, just like these girls that are spreading the movement that if you just give them a chance, video games are a great recreation. Having the opposite sex involved in a Halo tournament is wonderful…especially if they kick my ass. But let’s get something straight, I get my ass kicked by women just as I do by men. There is no difference.

Video games are wonderful forms of recreation because there is no defining line between sexes. It’s something everyone can pick up and enjoy no matter how old you are, or if you are male or female.

See, that’s what this movement originally was supposed to be entailing. Guys make fun of girl gamers, so girls beat the sh*t out of them to shut them up. Great idea!

Now we have clans that are dominant with femininity and testosterone is next to zero within. We have girls roaring saying that games aren’t just for men anymore and beat our asses in Halo to prove a point. Somewhere along the way, publications have sat and done stories on the clans containing all the hotties that could gun down your ass and smile for the camera.
Who cares? Who reads this crap?

That’s the point right there. When it once was to be recognized as gamers on equality with men, the whole idea has become nothing more than a group of supermodel rejects. Once I see a hideous fat girl on one of these panels, then I may be a lot more open to this “movement” but as it stands, it’s pointless. I hear them consistently bitching about men not letting them into “our circle” and then they make clans devoid of us, and women not as attractive as them, but much more skilled.

So to stop the sexism you’re just going to keep the sexism going…that makes perfect sense.

Hey, I’m all for an all girls Halo clan. Those are a great idea, and they have some amazing players within. What flips my lid is how all these representatives, all these team photos, and just about everything I see in this is with girls that are somewhere between a 6 and a 10.

Hey wait, didn’t the ugly hags get a chance too?

And that’s another problem. There are girls out there far better than men, and far better than those women, that I never see on the stage, that I never see give the panel speeches. Those are the ones that while defiantly shouldn’t be hogging all the screen time, deserve just as much as anyone else-even if they may be better than their cute friends.

But the one thing that has boiled my blood with this “movement” is how none of these girls are gamers to begin with.

News Flash: Playing Halo all day doesn’t make you a gamer. It’s so humerous how they think they can tell people who’s a gamer and who isn’t. While at PAX I ran into a girl who told me she was in an all girls clan. In the midst of the conversation, a girl walked up to her and asked her HOW to get into video games. While that question was ridiculous enough, her answer was even more ridiculous. She went on about finding clans, getting accepted and being into this whole thing.

What the f*ck ever happened to picking up a controller and calling yourself a gamer? What happened to it? A girl says she’s hardcore. Ok, what did you play besides WOW and Halo all year? For that matter, while you did that when did you ever shut up about how women need to be accepted into the gaming world. Why can’t you play games because they are fun, not because you want to make a stand on women’s rights?

Probably no response.

Halo “Saves your life,” “You’re proud of Halo,” good God. These are people so out of touch and without a label to hide behind they used video games as a resort. These are people who got kicked out of the cheerleading squad because the bitch that was made the captain didn’t want you unpopular dweebs around. So you come to our circle and mess it all up.

As a male, it isn’t to say we aren’t to blame for this madness. If men could shut up and treat women normally rather than spout off stupid remarks about “Being beaten by a girl,” then this crap wouldn’t be going on in the first place. It initially was a good idea, it was to show us that girls could play games with the guys. Now it’s become an overblown women’s rights movement with sex appeal that even Hillary Clinton can be proud of.

So here’s the deal: Ladies, you stop your “girl power” shouts and telling us about how this “all women’s thing” is going to be, while making your club membership consist of the cast of Coyote Ugly, and have intelligence equaling a female cast member of ‘Saved By The Bell’ and guys, we gotta stop taunting the girls every five seconds. They made their points, they kicked our asses. Now I just don’t want to have to listen to it.

I’ll say this again, I don’t have anything against the girl gaming clans, the girls that pick up controllers for Halo or whatever. I’m against this so called “Movement” that seems to have more rules and commandments than Catholicism. I’m against girls saying they are for equality with everyone then turn around and alienate everyone except people who talk like them or have above average looks. Those clans are the ones I’m speaking to, the ones that think they know this industry when they’ve only been in it for a year. There’s a place for people like those:

It’s called high school.