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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andre" data-source="post: 1883106" data-attributes="member: 25930">This doesn't really surprise me. Most gamers are introduced to the hobby by someone they know. RPG's in their beginning were mainly the province of male gamers, so it makes sense that most women would be introduced to the hobby by a guy. Given that many (by no means all) relationships between men and women involve romance, the odds are good that many women were brought into the hobby by a SO/husband/boyfriend/whatever.What I have noticed in the past few years which is different from my earlier experiences (I started gaming in 1976) is that many more women stick with the hobby nowadays. In high school and college, my gaming group invited a few women to play (usually girlfriends or someone one of the guys wanted to be a girlfriend), but not a single one stayed for more than a session or two (that probably says something about our maturity level back then...    <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />   ).Now, however, the women invited to the games are more likely to stay - and they seem to enjoy the game and put effort into it. We've lost a couple due to breakups and the like, but we've lost male gamers due to RL also. I just don't see a difference anymore. Male or female, if they're there to game, they're welcome, and no one seems to care about gender. Why that is -  age, a change in how we view women in society in general, other factors - I'm not smart enough to say.Oh yeah - the first time she plays her character the way she wants, not the way he tells her she should.</blockquote>

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