Quasqueton
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I just read an article about the point of view of convention booth babes. [I know two threads have been closed for the booth babe conversation. This is not an attempt to rehash *that* issue. This thread is about us gamers.]
A couple women in the article commented:
"It's weird when they put their arms around me," she replies, "but then I feel them shaking and I'm like, whatever, if it's so important to you . . . it's funny when guys come up to me and tell me that it's their first time touching a girl."
"This environment is definitely over-stimulating for them."
"They seem so un-used to seeing girls."
"It's so cute they way they're so enthusiastic and enamored."
"They come up to me and they're shaking."
I started playing D&D (really became a "gamer") at age 13 (1980). I played at least once a week for many, many years, so I was what you would lable a gamer geek. I was shy, but not really socially maladjusted. My fellow gamer friends were normal boys - one ran in track and field, one played football, one was a pot-head, etc. We went out socializing on Saturday nights. We dated girls. We had girlfriends (occasionally). We "touched" girls as young and often as probably any other non-gamer boys.
I, nor any of my friends lived at home past 20-21 years. I now have a wife and family of my own (37 years old).
Although in my years of gaming, I have met the stereotypical gamer geek -- unwashed, socially retarded, too smart for his own good, etc. But the vast majority of my gamer friends were "normal" in various ways.
Is my 20+ years of life experience as a gamer that different from what others have had?
Are so many gamers *really* so pathetically socially withdrawn that the first time they've touched a girl would be a booth babe at a gaming convention? Or are the guys these women are referring to 13 year-olds? Is that situation so exciting as to make gamer guys shake?
Quasqueton
A couple women in the article commented:
"It's weird when they put their arms around me," she replies, "but then I feel them shaking and I'm like, whatever, if it's so important to you . . . it's funny when guys come up to me and tell me that it's their first time touching a girl."
"This environment is definitely over-stimulating for them."
"They seem so un-used to seeing girls."
"It's so cute they way they're so enthusiastic and enamored."
"They come up to me and they're shaking."
I started playing D&D (really became a "gamer") at age 13 (1980). I played at least once a week for many, many years, so I was what you would lable a gamer geek. I was shy, but not really socially maladjusted. My fellow gamer friends were normal boys - one ran in track and field, one played football, one was a pot-head, etc. We went out socializing on Saturday nights. We dated girls. We had girlfriends (occasionally). We "touched" girls as young and often as probably any other non-gamer boys.
I, nor any of my friends lived at home past 20-21 years. I now have a wife and family of my own (37 years old).
Although in my years of gaming, I have met the stereotypical gamer geek -- unwashed, socially retarded, too smart for his own good, etc. But the vast majority of my gamer friends were "normal" in various ways.
Is my 20+ years of life experience as a gamer that different from what others have had?
Are so many gamers *really* so pathetically socially withdrawn that the first time they've touched a girl would be a booth babe at a gaming convention? Or are the guys these women are referring to 13 year-olds? Is that situation so exciting as to make gamer guys shake?
Quasqueton
