Video Games: Not Just for Boys

You know, growing up I played video games all the time with my brother. Even though I was a little tomboyish, my sister who was totally into Barbies, played video games too. Granted, she grew up being a dancer and totally into chick things, I grew up still playing video games. I feel like a minority where I live in California because I haven't met that many girls that play. I grew up In Canada with a lot of girl friends that played video games. Even if they weren't hard core, they at least knew how to play and don't mind playing.

Here, the girls kind of look at me and go "You actually play?" and they won't touch a controller with a 10 foot pole. The girls that I've met that do play, they call themselves a gamer when they play Puzzle fighter and the hardest game they've had to play is Kingdom Hearts. No offence to anyone who plays puzzle fighter, but you kind of get the point.

I have lan parties at my house. Of course it would be all guys and me I play UT until I start getting dizzy. I play Halo and I suck at it, but I still don't mind playing it. I just got back from E3, not too many girls there. Maybe it's just who I end up bumping into, I don't go to gaming conventions and what not, but just in every day social gatherings, I haven't really come across another girl that plays nearly as much as I do.

Of course the guys all think my husband's a lucky bastard, but then again, I'm hogging the big screen HDTV with my Xbox 360 and he's stuck on his 17" LCD monitor

I just think it's funny when guys find out that I do play. For some reason they all get this impression that I'm the nice little girl that goes home and cooks Little do they know how much of a geek I am I actually play a male online, that way I never get the "r u gurl?!" questions.

Jam it back in, in the dark.