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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STARP_Social_Officer" data-source="post: 4093496" data-attributes="member: 41202">Upon the death of Gary Gygax, librarian, writer and unapologetic geek Tom Goodfellow, who it seems has stolen my life since I'm all three of those things, wrote <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2181718.htm#comments" target="_blank">this rather snappy article</a>  in defence of gamers everywhere for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).The one question he posed and challenged his readers to answer is this: why don't more women play this game? He's right in that it's quite surprising more don't, since it values creativity, intelligence, dramatic talent etc. There's one woman in my gaming group, and the girlfriend of one of my other players is regularly there to make the occasional zinger (she is quite an extraordinary geek - witness her $500 light saber), but she isn't actually a player. Why don't more women play? Does anybody have any idea what the ratio actually is? I'd like to hear from our female posters to find this out. I'd also be quite interested to know what the ratio of females to males is on the EN World bulletin boards. I'm quite sure there are significantly more men, but...why?. Are women inherently less geeky?</blockquote>