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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5341662" data-attributes="member: 58197">I agree wholeheartedly with the second paragraph. As to the first... basically the issue is that we live in a culture where the "default point of view" is male. Everything is assumed to be seen from the perspective of a (white, heterosexual, Christian, middle-class, American-born, right-handed, extroverted, sports-watching, beer-drinking, non-disabled, and so on and so forth) man unless otherwise specified.It's easy to fall into the tendency to view anybody who doesn't meet all of these criteria* as something of an alien. (Even if the person is you! I've known quite a few gamers, including me, who sometimes look at themselves and think, "I see the world so differently from everyone else... am I some kind of space alien?" And then we realize that no, we are not space aliens, and we sigh, because that would be SO DAMN COOL.)Put that together with the fact that gamers by definition enjoy sitting around dreaming up elaborate scenarios in our heads, plus a lot of us are analytical and scientifically minded. Finally add in that many gaming groups are all-male, and what you get is a whole lot of theorizing and speculation about the Mystery of The Female Gamer.It's not like sexual stereotypes and "othering" are some disease specific to gamers. This is just how they manifest in our particular community.[size=-2]*Which is almost everyone. Look at anybody in the right--or wrong--light and they can seem utterly unknowable.[/size]</blockquote>

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