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<blockquote data-quote="TanithT" data-source="post: 5948000" data-attributes="member: 87695"><p>Depends on the demographic.</p><p></p><p>Approach random women at the mall, or the library, or your school, and ask them about gaming, and you will tend to get the following responses.</p><p></p><p>"What's Pathfinder? Is it an outdoor sport like geocaching?"</p><p></p><p>"Cthu who? Do you need a Kleenex?"</p><p></p><p>Or maybe even, "D&D? You mean, like that creepy guy on Big Bang Theory? Eww."</p><p></p><p>Or once you explain gaming as interactive fantasy storytelling to the ones who have only a vague idea of what gaming is, you might get, "Sorry, that doesn't sound like my kind of thing." And that's legit; mundanes aren't necessarily gamers or fantasy/sci-fi readers, because it's not everybody's cup of tea.</p><p></p><p>That's the typical mundane response. I've never bothered talking about gaming or recruiting mundanes for games, because, why. </p><p></p><p>I did spend a fair bit of time shilling for gamers to fill time slots in the non gaming areas of large conventions, and I got mostly two types of responses. The most common from both men and women was, "Oh cool, but I'm doing a panel on storm trooper armor modeling/Harry Potter fandom/robotics/swordplay/WoW during that game, sorry."</p><p></p><p>Not the most common but definitely not an uncommon response from women was "I don't go in the gaming room." Seriously, I heard a ton of that. At DragonCon, there were women who said they took detours around the building, which is a lot of extra walking, so they would not have to go through the gaming area. At most conventions it's not an issue, so DC was the only place I ever heard that.</p><p></p><p>None of the fannish women had any trouble knowing what I was talking about no matter which RPG I named. They know the systems and the terminology perfectly well and I would guess that chances are decent that they've played them at least once, or read the books at least once. They may even play at home, with their friends. They definitely know the lingo. But they won't go in the gaming room at a con.</p><p></p><p>I rarely had time to ask why they felt that way in any more depth when I was shilling to fill game slots. So the only facts I can gather are a) a nontrivial number of fannish women refuse to set foot in the gaming area even when invited by another woman, and b) those same women are completely familiar with these games. </p><p></p><p>I did get responses of "Naah, not my fandom, not a gamer, I'm just here for the filking/cosplay/anime/etc" from both men and women that I would characterize as fitting your neutral description. But the clear statements of literally not feeling comfortable entering the gaming area were pretty prevalent, and were solely from women. Make of that what you will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TanithT, post: 5948000, member: 87695"] Depends on the demographic. Approach random women at the mall, or the library, or your school, and ask them about gaming, and you will tend to get the following responses. "What's Pathfinder? Is it an outdoor sport like geocaching?" "Cthu who? Do you need a Kleenex?" Or maybe even, "D&D? You mean, like that creepy guy on Big Bang Theory? Eww." Or once you explain gaming as interactive fantasy storytelling to the ones who have only a vague idea of what gaming is, you might get, "Sorry, that doesn't sound like my kind of thing." And that's legit; mundanes aren't necessarily gamers or fantasy/sci-fi readers, because it's not everybody's cup of tea. That's the typical mundane response. I've never bothered talking about gaming or recruiting mundanes for games, because, why. I did spend a fair bit of time shilling for gamers to fill time slots in the non gaming areas of large conventions, and I got mostly two types of responses. The most common from both men and women was, "Oh cool, but I'm doing a panel on storm trooper armor modeling/Harry Potter fandom/robotics/swordplay/WoW during that game, sorry." Not the most common but definitely not an uncommon response from women was "I don't go in the gaming room." Seriously, I heard a ton of that. At DragonCon, there were women who said they took detours around the building, which is a lot of extra walking, so they would not have to go through the gaming area. At most conventions it's not an issue, so DC was the only place I ever heard that. None of the fannish women had any trouble knowing what I was talking about no matter which RPG I named. They know the systems and the terminology perfectly well and I would guess that chances are decent that they've played them at least once, or read the books at least once. They may even play at home, with their friends. They definitely know the lingo. But they won't go in the gaming room at a con. I rarely had time to ask why they felt that way in any more depth when I was shilling to fill game slots. So the only facts I can gather are a) a nontrivial number of fannish women refuse to set foot in the gaming area even when invited by another woman, and b) those same women are completely familiar with these games. I did get responses of "Naah, not my fandom, not a gamer, I'm just here for the filking/cosplay/anime/etc" from both men and women that I would characterize as fitting your neutral description. But the clear statements of literally not feeling comfortable entering the gaming area were pretty prevalent, and were solely from women. Make of that what you will. [/QUOTE]
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