16-bit Jazzy
Also I learned today that gamers are pretty much 50% male and 50% female. so gamur gurlsz should stfu about how special they are. Female game designers, on the other hand, only make up 3% of all game designers and that is pretty sad. The only females I can even think of who are in the game industry are either music composers or localizers. I think that if gamers are half male and half female, then it only makes sense for the people who make the games to be at least kind of balanced! Maybe that will just change with time?
I'm not sure why you're going after "gamer gurlz" with this fact. Other groups need this pointed out way more.
The industry is really terrible about realizing that their audience's gender ratio is pretty even. You mentioned that there aren't a lot of women in game design (and the women who do work in the industry end up dealing with a lot of sexism if #1reasonwhy is any indication), but this is also an industry that still has problems with things like making the main character a woman. Some of the companies have realized that their games are being enjoyed by more than straight white 15-25 year old men, and some of them have done better jobs on making their games and companies more inclusive, but I'd wager that part of why some female gamers talk about how special they are is because that's exactly the idea that the industry presents to them.
And while the worst part of the "gamer gurlz" can be annoying, I don't find them anywhere near as awful as the dudebros and MRAs who get mad if you even suggest that video games and the community are less than perfect in their treatment of women. The people who send rape and/or death threats because someone tries to talk about sexism in games, or because the other player is a woman (but it's okay because she was totally flaunting her female-ness by speaking in a female voice). The people who defend the use of bigoted slurs because 'it's part of gaming culture'. The people who are the loudest in most gaming-focused spaces and reinforce the industry's belief that the main audience is straight white 15-25 year old men. There are a lot of gamers that aren't part of the problem (and plenty who want to see these things fixed), but the most vocal part of the community is completely terrible.
I also don't really see the point in getting mad about "gamer gurlz" talking about how special they are for being women who like video games because that's overwhelmingly been something I've seen done by people who are new and excited about discovering something new. If you give most of them a couple of years, they'll either decide that they're not that interested in gaming and move onto something else, or get more into the medium and outgrow a lot of their earlier, more annoying behaviors. I know I was guilty of a lot of these things when I first got into anime and manga (not so much thinking I was special, but I did a lot of talking about stuff that I clearly knew nothing about). Help them realize that they're not special, sure, and call them out on it if they keep acting like that, but getting mad at them for being excited about something new is a bad way to keep them interested in video games.
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