Are gamers really that pathetic?

[Incenjucar]

Eh. I figure flirting works just about anywhere if you know how to do it.

A little smile here or there can lead to chatting fairly quickly (like how I chatted up that young woman who was very proud of her groups habit of using chaotic neutral characters). If gender ratio is an issue, then nobody would be able to flirt at college, considering there are twice as many women there as men.

...A mentality I condone, because it means I'll just have to pick up the slack.

 

[Nisarg]

Another thing completely off topic: the word 'Cat Piss Man'. I first heard this term in an online comics journal article, Retail: The Wrath of Cat Piss Man.

Brilliant article, and the guy expresses exactly what is my own point of view on the subject.

Nisarg

 

[Taren Nighteyes]

I can see why women would feel threatened in a LGS. I mean, you have a combination of factors:

1. Social retards (it seems most stores I've been in have some of these types of customers)

2. Predominately male (almost exclusively in some stores)

3. Hygenically challenged guys

etc.

What is boils down to, is that Ladies Who Game (which would make an EXCELLENT Playboy spread *wink*) go to gaming stores to check out the new stuff, buy comics, games, and chit chat about gaming. Getting hit on when you are the only woman in the store (or nearly the only woman) can make a person feel threatened.

Food places, grocery stores, and most other places have a good mix of men to women and in the case of food places, people often eat with company. Safety in numbers

BTW - the Playboy comment was not intended to offend any women in general. I just remember hearing about a "Women of Enron" issue and it clicked with what I was typing

 

[trowizilla]

Taren Nighteyes, that is precisely why I avoid my FLGS now. The last time I went in, there were around twenty guys, aged around 13 to late 40s, and I felt eyes on my back the entire time I was there. I wasn't wearing anything skimpy, or doing anything to solicit attention in any way: I walked in, bought some dice, and left. As I left, I noticed one middle-aged gamer actually staring with his mouth open through the window. It took a while for the prickly feeling on the back of my neck to go away, and from now on I'll be buying my rpg materials at other, more girl-friendly stores.

Also. To the cat-piss-man who pinched my butt on the escalator at DragonCon: if that hand gets anywhere near me again, you're going to lose it.

I think women would be a great deal more likely to stay interested in gaming if they didn't have to run the gauntlet of inappropriate behavior, stares, whispers, and bad touching whenever they enter a gaming-centric area. One would think the cat-piss-man's acqauintences would "encourage" him to clean up, simply because he's keeping all the chicks away. Social awkwardness we can handle (after all, just as many of us are shy and weird around new people), outright unpleasantness, not so much.

Just curious: has anyone ever met a cat-piss-woman?

 

[diaglo]

Heh. Mine neither. I actually don't know who her current favorite is, oddly enough.

my wife said she likes younger men so Pierce Brosnan came up.

she says he is looking better now with a touch of gray than he did before.

i told her i wouldn't die my hair anymore if that made her feel better.

 

[WizarDru]

Just curious: has anyone ever met a cat-piss-woman?

Yes, yes I have.

[shudder]

She tried to invite herself to many games that I ran. The only reason we didn't run her out on a rail sooner was her attachment with a good player. Once he hooked up with another one of the group and his feelings were in no danger of being hurt, we made it clear she was no longer welcome so fast, it should have been a Mutants&Masterminds Power Stunt.

Inappropriate clothing, blackened and yellowed teeth, bad B.O. and breath that smelled worse...oh, yes, cat-piss-woman most assuredly exists.

Gah. I DID NOT need that memory re-awakened.

 

[SteelDraco]

Just curious: has anyone ever met a cat-piss-woman?

Yeah, several of them. But then, I work in a LGS, so I get all kinds of gamers coming in. There a few pairs of CPM/CPW that have apparently found each other, and a few Cat Piss Women who come in on their own. I haven't gamed with any of them, though.

I've generally only had a few problems with people at conventions, though, and most of those I solved by leaving and gaming with other people. The only real problem I've had was when an online friend we were staying with vouched for a CPM, and we ended up sharing a hotel room with him at GenCon a few years back. That was... unfortunate.

 

[Desdichado]

Just curious: has anyone ever met a cat-piss-woman?

I'm sad to say I can confirm their existence.

 

[Dravar]

Just as a side-note, everyone needs to remember that you never know what the models questioned are like outside of this particular job. I know one of the models who worked the White Wolf booth, and she is quite emotionally unstable with a tendency for exaggeration.

 

[Incenjucar]

Just curious: has anyone ever met a cat-piss-woman?

...you've never heard of a 'cat lady' before...? Heck, it's a popular enough stereotype that they had a villain of that nature on the "Kids Next Door" cartoon.