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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eris404" data-source="post: 1444362" data-attributes="member: 5338">I can't say for certain, but I think some of it has to do with the riot grrl/ladette trend in the early to mid 90s and the whole pop culture GenX thing that was happening around that time, too. I remember being in college and finally meeting other girls who were into the same stuff I was: video games, comic books, horror movies, music, RPGs. It was finally OK to not only openly be a geek, but more importantly, to be a girl geek. This was magnified later when I started working as a web developer in the late 90s and "geek culture" became really hip (imagine working with 40 or so tattooed 20-somethings who staged Doom tournaments after office hours. Ah, those were the days!). I think probably it was just the right time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I started gaming when I was about ten or so. My current boyfriend plays because I do (although he did play when he was younger) and more times than not, he finds himself a "gaming widower." We did have one girl who played because her boyfriend did, but after he moved she did continue to play for a little while. Most of the girls in our group are gamers through and through and were introduced to our group through mutual friends.</blockquote>

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