Do you like it when a girl is a geek or gamer?
Is that a bonus for some guys or is it weird when you find out a girl likes Star Wars
22-25, F
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bananas · M
It depends. A lot of guys seem to feel like gaming is the last fortress of the "boys club" where girls don't belong, though it's for long not been like that. On the flip side the phenomena of girls faking geekiness for attention to usually comical effect is very real; but then it's true everybody was a newb once.
xXAlternativeblkchicxX · 22-25, F
@bananas: what if they were true gamers/geeks and not the fake kind that just does it for attention?
bananas · M
@xXAlternativeblkchicxX: I did kinda cover both alternatives; just saying it doesn't work for *everybody* and sometimes it's not even about common interests.
To be fair the gaming-circles I've been in have been pretty gender inclusive, but I think it comes down to that for some guys it's important that they're better than girls at *something* whether it be driving, army, games etc. and any threat to that is met with derision.
And yeah the Instagram snaps of girls holding video game controllers wrong way around etc. aren't helping, but that certainly shows there's a strong coolness factor to it now that it's more mainstream. Just saying, not even every gamer is happy about that privately; but certainly it will be a bonus to some, if not many, as long as it's not excessive.
The best feeling though is when your partner gets into same hobbies as you specifically because that's what you do - not exclusively, and not like cloning everything you do. Being open-minded into gaming instead of just "Don't tell me you're wasting your time with the boys again?" is always a definite plus.
To be fair the gaming-circles I've been in have been pretty gender inclusive, but I think it comes down to that for some guys it's important that they're better than girls at *something* whether it be driving, army, games etc. and any threat to that is met with derision.
And yeah the Instagram snaps of girls holding video game controllers wrong way around etc. aren't helping, but that certainly shows there's a strong coolness factor to it now that it's more mainstream. Just saying, not even every gamer is happy about that privately; but certainly it will be a bonus to some, if not many, as long as it's not excessive.
The best feeling though is when your partner gets into same hobbies as you specifically because that's what you do - not exclusively, and not like cloning everything you do. Being open-minded into gaming instead of just "Don't tell me you're wasting your time with the boys again?" is always a definite plus.