#and we took that and Once Again confined the girls to the cutesy innocent chore simulators and the guys to gritty pewpew punchpunch | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gender-euphowrya · 10 months ago

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kinda fucks me up how women spent so fucking long battling to have their place in the gaming community be recognized, laying the stereotypes that they're less skilled/naturally less interested in games than men to rest

only for society to be like "okay we can acknowledge gamer girls But they have to have pink chairs cat-ear headsets and play farming sims"

#girl help they did Bic For Her pens to the video games #don't get me wrong cat ear headsets rule it's the fact that they're heavily gendered that sucks #it's the fact that when you ask most people to picture ''a girl playing video games'' That's the image that comes to mind #so many pics of like. het gamer couples showing off their setups and his looks like a damn normal desktop #and hers is fucking. hello kitty uwu paradise with the stardew valley background #gaming is such a limitless experience. so many genres so many aesthetics so many worlds and stories to explore #and we took that and Once Again confined the girls to the cutesy innocent chore simulators and the guys to gritty pewpew punchpunch #video games are by definition a realm where nothing is impossible or out of bounds and there is So Much to enjoy #and that's the beauty of it. getting to ''live'' so many adventures that put you in the shoes of various types of characters #is why i love this medium as much as i do #and people fucking took that and put little 'for him' 'for her' signs on not only the games but the fucking Accessories #sorry this is fucking upsetting. girls Buy the ridiculous clunky black chairs with the red accents i'm begging you #get you a pc that looks like a damn mechanical caterpillar. guys get the paw pads joystick protectors and custom hatsune miku keycaps #for fuck's sake #girls get into speedrunning. guys play cooking mama

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