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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 1565935" data-attributes="member: 7883">Wow....that's a pretty one sided statement.  Generally I like your posts Ranger, but I can't agree here.  There are *plenty* of people who aren't pimple faced twigs or some other stereotype who play.Please ignore the rest of my post if your own was meant in jest.Many fit those stereotypes, but plenty don't.  And there are plenty of "geeks" who don't play, and would never play.  I've been disabused of these notions every time I forget, and start stereotyping again.  I don't fit that stereotype, aside from being introverted.  But all through High School and University I was an athlete...playing soccer, football, competitive swimming, life guarding, fencing, kayaking, getting along well with everyone...and gaming some evenings.Admittedly, I have my gaming buddies, and then my social buddies, and the two don't always mix.  But I've had "social buddies" that I hung out with for years, and went out drinking, picking up women, and everything, and then we each found out that the other person was a gamer, and we'd each kept it from the other.  Heck, I was shocked when I visited a buddy's place I'd lost touch with over the years.  He was a football quarterback, strong, handsome guy, tonnes of women after him, drove a sports car, etc.  Visited his place, and what do you know it...he's got Baldur's Gate queued up on the computer in his bedroom, and a stack of Drizzt novels on his shelf.  I'd have never guessed in a million years.  And these are not lone samples.  Another current buddy of mine I hang out with socially...drinking, meeting women, etc.  I found out just a few months ago that he'd tried gaming in High School, and had thought it was really cool, but didn't have any groups to join, and didn't know how to meet people who play.I've also had members of my groups that have fit the stereotypes to a T.  Maybe I occupy some weird tail of the bell curve, but I doubt it.I know sometimes there's a reflexive need to feel that we as gamers have something special....many gamers do put up with intense teasing or ridicule for pursuing their hobby through childhood and adolescence.....so maybe some people find it threatening that some of the very "groups" that perpetrated this kind of discrimination take part in the same passtimes.Banshee</blockquote>

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