Are gamers really that pathetic?

[Trencher]

My first reaction to reading this was: if they hate shy and ankward men so much, why don't they work in stripjoint's or on the street where men are more forward and confident? Offcourse they could also get a real job...

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

I think that the majority of gamers these days are less likely to be freaks of yesteryear.

When I was younger it seemed that about half the gamers I knew were freaks, toads, socially retarded and people I did not want my parents to know I associated with. These days, that number seems to have dropped greatly. I am not sure what that means - either I knew a abnormal subset before (and now) of gamers or if there is some other factor at play.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Gamers are SO streotyped!

 

[jester47]

...I mean cmon I could walked down Illinois street and gotten a much better show

The Seraph of Earth and Stone

In fact... thats exactly what we did! God bless the Red Garter.

It was interesting after that, It was like I was innoculated to the booth babes that were at the con. I was thinking "Someone has paid you to be here and look pretty and take pics with the attendees. You just don't take it as far as the girls down the street do. You could really care less who we are, trekkies, vieo gamers, or colts fans, just as long as you get paid. Pretty much. I am sure there is an exception but thats pretty much it."

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

Nisarg,

I believe your experience is contrary to the statistics.

Aaron.

 

[driver8]

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."

Quasqueton

I reckon that some of these quotes are a little out of context, perhaps said in an ironic or sarcastic way, who knows.

However, lets face it, while alot of "booth babes" are either in the industry, like alot who man Nintendo booths, and while many may be college students, Id wager the majority are models/actressess/wahtever who have little grasp of gamers or the target audience of games PnP or video.

As a result alot of the stereotypes are reinforced going in and the bad is probably remembered more than the "normal".

Also, (allow me to fall into stereotypes) the type of woman who has the chutzpah to wear a skimpy revealing outfit in front of thousands of con goers has little in the way of a confidence problem, and no doubt sees herself as some sort of creature "above" the unwashed geeks who oggle her. So she probably has preconceived notions going in. (/end stereotyping )

 

[Incenjucar]

Heh trust me, after four years at a private college filled with women so good looking that they could make a "normal" man freeze like a deer in headlights I don't expect a booth babe to provoke a similiar reaction. (I am not exageratting, there were so many beautiful women at my college that I went into withdrawl during the summer.)

Sure there will be that moment of thinking "Is she actually wearing that?" maybe a turned head, but that's it.

Yeppers. Just got back to the university last Thursday for dorm move-in, and I'm already in fear of what'll happen this summer when I have to go back home to the dumpy little town my folks live in to help pay them back with yard work and house-building labor, and I'm far away from all the cute young Asian women using leg-press machines that face towards mirrors where the treadmills are.... Thank heavens the school is spread out of I'd have run in to a wall by now.

But the "Booth Babes" who have nothing in the world that they're better at than standing looking jiggly? They could do a strip tease and I'd start yawning. Now maybe if they had a PHD Certificate in their hand...

 

[Rel]

The gaming community needs to make a choice. Do we want more well-adjusted people, and more women, in our community; or do we want to hand over the entire hobby to the cat-piss men? Because we can't do both. And the longer we tolerate this sort of social retardation at our gaming tables the more socially functional people will associate that attitude with gaming and will leave the hobby.

Nisarg

Nisarg, nobody has to apply for a license in order to be a roleplayer. Therefore neither you nor I, nor anybody else is in the position of denying anybody access to the hobby, outside of the normal selection process of whether or not you wish to game with a given individual. We are also not putting in bouncers at the front of hotels where Cons are being held in order to only admit the cool people, as one might see outside a New York nightclub.

I don't see how it would in any way be healthier for the hobby to try and excluded anybody who wants to play.

P.S. Quasqueton, I had no idea that you were 37. Having met you at the NC Game Days, I wouldn't have put you a day over 33. Hope you can make it to NCGDV.

 

[dreaded_beast]

from all the cute young Asian women using leg-press machines that face towards mirrors where the treadmills are....

Sorry, but are you Asian?

I wonder how it would sound if I said look at all the cute young White women everywhere.
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[Rel]

Sorry, but are you Asian?

I wonder how it would sound if I said look at all the cute young White women everywhere.
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I think it would sound like you were attracted to white women. Not without some reason too. I've noticed that plenty of white women are attractive.

dreaded_beast, it's either offensive to you that he likes Asian women or it isn't. I don't think his own ethnicity should matter.

Just sayin' is all.