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[mythago]

My wife is very anti-gaming. What advice can you gals give me to get her more interested in gaming (in general) or at least more tolerant of it?

Forget getting her interested in gaming. The problem is that you're a gamer and she's anti-gaming. This is where you bring in one of those Little Relationship Talks where you explain that gaming is important to you, you're a gamer, that's NOT going to change, and she needs to drop the negatude and deal. In return, you don't try to get her interested in it or expect her to play.

Oh, yeah--female gamer here. I think I am now officially in the category of Old Broad.

 

[randomling]

How do you officially enter that category, mythago? I'm still waiting for news of my application!

 

[randomling]

recruiting more for your boards?

Partly, yes (new blood is goooooooood). Also thinking a good deal more people must have joined since the thread was last used, and it'd be cool to see some of the newer girls saying hi!

 

[mythago]

How do you officially enter that category, mythago? I'm still waiting for news of my application!

I think you're in the first time some cute young thing calls you "Ma'am"

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Partly, yes (new blood is goooooooood). Also thinking a good deal more people must have joined since the thread was last used, and it'd be cool to see some of the newer girls saying hi!

Well - I have officially joined the community... Fresh blood is yours to have!

 

[BOZ]

eeewwww

 

[Stone Angel]

Nope just bits and pieces here. But I do play at a table with two women and occasionally three when my fiancee sits in.

But the main reason I am replying to this thread is that the wierdest thing happened this weekend. My mother of all people asked me about playing D&D This is a woman who thought for the three years of my gaming career that goats were sacrificed on Wed, and Goats on Sat. Now she wants to play!

She says she used to act in High School and reckons that it is not that much different. I told her not really. I suppose that this is another way for her to deal with my parents divorce.


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[fusangite]

I'm not sure if I'm qualified to post to this thread but if it's alright, I would like to ask: how do female gamers cope with the concentration of sexually desperate individuals in the male gaming population?

 

[Acquana]

From my experience, we usually just tolerate it until the guys leave, then all say "Wow, that dude was creepy" to each other.

Having a boyfriend beforehand helps.

Though ... actually quite a few gaming girls who have been geeks all their lives aren't used to having guys be attracted to them. (I was one of those ...) So most of the chicks I've known love the attention. They ... well, they wouldn't go out with any of the sexually frustrated geeks, but they love the attention. ^_^;;

 

[randomling]

I'm not sure if I'm qualified to post to this thread but if it's alright, I would like to ask: how do female gamers cope with the concentration of sexually desperate individuals in the male gaming population?

We'll I've had pretty varied examples of being treated oddly because of my sex, but I've never never met a guy - gamer or otherwise! - desperate enough that he wanted to date me.

Sexism or other creepiness is usually dealt with by leaving the group (or booting the offender, should I happen to be the GM).