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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 7651566" data-attributes="member: 21938"><p>To the topic in point, back when we played in college (late 80s or so), we started as the typical male group but we were joined by some of our female friends mainly because one of them fancied one of my friends. By the standards of some of those bloggers in the video piece, a "fake geek girl", although such a term didn't exist back then. </p><p></p><p>However, turns out she really enjoyed the gaming and carried on with it when she went off to university. I don't think you can denigrate anyone's reasons for trying the hobby - better that somebody does than mock from a distance.</p><p></p><p>(She got her man, by the way, but the gaming lasted longer!)</p><p></p><p>And now for some side-tracks:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Interesting point. Back when I was at school in the 80s there was only one of my male friends who went on to do "Domestic Science" as it was then known. However, most of the Michelin star chefs are male, perhaps because that aspect turns cooking into a prestige competition. And it could also be argued that the likes of Heston Blumenthal have made cooking "geeky".</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My wife, who is usually lukewarm concerning anything fantastical, really loves GoT. I think it's because it's as much character driven as anything, with less reliance on swoopy visual effects like most blockbuster films (something that annoys me these days too). Also, although the setting may have an authentic mediaeval attitude towards women's rights (or lack thereof), it's got a lot of powerful female characters, and quite varied in the way that they exercise power, from the manipulative feminine wiles of Cersei to the feisty defiance of Arya.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Simon, post: 7651566, member: 21938"] To the topic in point, back when we played in college (late 80s or so), we started as the typical male group but we were joined by some of our female friends mainly because one of them fancied one of my friends. By the standards of some of those bloggers in the video piece, a "fake geek girl", although such a term didn't exist back then. However, turns out she really enjoyed the gaming and carried on with it when she went off to university. I don't think you can denigrate anyone's reasons for trying the hobby - better that somebody does than mock from a distance. (She got her man, by the way, but the gaming lasted longer!) And now for some side-tracks: Interesting point. Back when I was at school in the 80s there was only one of my male friends who went on to do "Domestic Science" as it was then known. However, most of the Michelin star chefs are male, perhaps because that aspect turns cooking into a prestige competition. And it could also be argued that the likes of Heston Blumenthal have made cooking "geeky". My wife, who is usually lukewarm concerning anything fantastical, really loves GoT. I think it's because it's as much character driven as anything, with less reliance on swoopy visual effects like most blockbuster films (something that annoys me these days too). Also, although the setting may have an authentic mediaeval attitude towards women's rights (or lack thereof), it's got a lot of powerful female characters, and quite varied in the way that they exercise power, from the manipulative feminine wiles of Cersei to the feisty defiance of Arya. [/QUOTE]
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