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Originally posted by Tanis Half-Halo:
**Why is it that there are so few women/girls who play video games? I just don't get it! Boys/guys love them, and girls/women hate them...Maybe there is some kind of virus in women called AntiVideoGameItus or something that makes them hate video games...
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esw is right... I think. But here's my theory as to why many females do not play games:
Picture a game such as PoG, or some other adventure game. In many games, the role of the protaganist is filled by a white male character. Though humans have a remarkable capacity to suspend their disbelief, it probably becomes quite hard when a girl is trying to believe that the male character walking around the screen is supposed to be her. Also, there is the violence in many video games which females might be hard pressed to identify with. Females tend not to find violence very attractive, nor do they usually engage in it, partly because of society and partly because of genetics (actually, it's not so much that females are supposedly docile as it is that males are more aggressive—damn testosterone!). Therefore, not many females are likely to be attracted to something like Quake 3, in which the purpose of the game is slaughter and shameless gore (heck, I'm a male and I don't find that too enticing).
So, that's my theory, given upon request. And quit yer whinin' Stark, this topic is more at home in the PoG board than in Just Chat. 
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