npd is incredibly inaccurate. They only track what companies allow them to track. Most big companies do not give them the right to track their sales at all (Blizzard or most games on Steam as example), in which they will have to guestimate.
Crying about how people pull rank based on seniority in hobbies is a good indicator on who's not really native. nikkas ready to write thinkpieces for shyt that is super regular in any male space
no one said no women play video gamesNo it’s not a weird as conclusion when you realize how silly the assumptions are. There have ALWAYS been girls into nerdom, gaming and ect. But they were never really acknowledged. So to try and gatekeep or act like it’s a shock that there weren’t lil girls playing Zelda or writing Sesshoumaru fanfiction has always been ridiculous.
The issue is that nerd culture for both men and women used to be fringe and became more mainstream over time. The extent to which those who wanna gatekeep nerd culture buys into it is fukking unhealthy and wrapped up in wanting to punish or accuse people of being posers for not committing to it to the extent that they did, because they feel they were socially punished for those hobbies growing up.
There’s no justification to be a jackass towards people for having varying levels of interests in hobbies just because the OGs who were there from the start made that culture their entire identity, whereas others took casual interest in it.
For example, I was reading speculative fiction like George R.R. Martin and other fantasy authors when I was in grade school WAAAAAY before Game of Thrones ever became a show. But you won’t catch me gatekeeping that shyt for newcomers.
Firstly, because you, me and no one else has any authority to do so
And that’s where the conversation should stay. But when you got people sending female gamers insults and death threats because they are protective of some shyt that is open to the general public, I call that mental illness good sir and I suspect there are some deep rooted vengeful psychological reasons behind it.
Dummy. They weren’t excluded. Old systems only had two controllers ( parents ain’t buying adapters) my brothers and I played it mainly but she liked watching.da hell kinda parents did you experience that just allowed the daughter to be excluded
i played along with them fools, just grew out of it by like high school. got busy and went outside and got money.... i still dont even know how guys make so much time to do it.
Which I why I mentioned to another poster that it’s actually improved over time. But there are still a quite a few dudes who espouse those ideas that “chicks don’t have hobbies”, they talking about chicks being into Candy Crush, “they doing it for attention”. Meanwhile, Fanfiction.net started in the 90s and has had majority female authors writing some of the weirdest, down the rabbit hole shyt there is based off anime, video games, books, ect.
No but a subset of dudes do believe a lot of chicks don’t have hobbies, are only into certain hobbies to attract dudes or get attention or money and ect, as the article mentioned. Those are ones people are addressing.
