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"Girl Gamers- the great debate"

I have noticed that on this site there have been a lot of gamers that have voiced their opinions about girl gamers, and I thought that Id put across my opinion too, espically as I dont really want to scroll through the mountains of posts based on the particular subject!
I think that its not the fact that there are not games about Barbie and the Spice Girls( which I think are really sissy by the way) that discourage girls like me from playing games, its that it seems to be thought that we are not encouraged enough to start to play games because of the fact that the boys think that we should go out and buy clothes and shoes rather than buying a console game that we would like to play. I myself like most types of games, my favourite that my boyfriend has is Gran Turismo 2, and I cant wait for him a Playstation 2 so that I can then play Gran Turismo 3.
I also like playing games with my male mates like Goldeneye where we can take our frustrations out on my mates and spill some blood. I really love horror movies you see!!! What I believe is that there is a stereotype that girls arent supposed to play games, but just to wear make-up and tight fitting skirts and clothes and go pull the blokes and look 'oh so pretty' than to play games and I think this is unfair. There are girls out there who like to play games that dont just wear denim jeans and look a right tomboy, its just that when we look a bit feminine the boys tend to just say "shouldnt you be out getting some more shoes!". I think us girls should be given a chance to play games, you never know, wed probably be better than the lot of you, just look at the exam results!!!

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Why? Is it like the weird thing that happens in Back To The Future? Where you die if you see yourself?

Or not?

Grix, you arent supposed to know your IQ!!!

But you can say your IQ.

I have no problem with that...

"Boasting about your grades also, does not make you a better person."

Does that mean I don't get a chance to tell you how intelligent I am. ;)

Names don't need to be told Damo but nice name though!

I was just pointing out, miss cat26980, (That's a catchy name...) that there are hardly any girls in my area with a slight hint of intelligence, that's all. I'm not saying the whole population of women in the world are stupid, just the ones that are from around here.

For the last few years, boys have done better on average in GCSEs and A-Levels.

Boasting about your grades also, does not make you a better person.

What happened was that I was called it by a girl named Maria in my secondary school, and it seems to just have stuck. Even people at uni use it now! Im never going to get away from it!!!

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5 years! Can't live with that!

Well, Ive been called Damo for 5 years, and another nickname Ive been called for for 15 years! I never get bored of it? How did you change it anyhow?