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Originally Posted by TARogue

Until you get constantly harrassed, stalked and treated like shit. Like you would have ANY idea what it is like to be female and part of this community benji.

There's definately disadvantages being a female in a community with not enough to go around... but I'm surprised anyone would doubt that women in general have an easier time through life.

People have an instinct to distrust strange men (probably warranted over thousands of years) whereas men usually have an instinct to protect women and therefore are given trust more easily.

Not discrediting the effect of being harassed by weirdos constantly, as I totally agree that part of being female would suck... but there's always the option of not putting yourself in situations where you know there is going to be a ratio of 100:1 men to women if you don't want them all climbing over each other for your attention.

I know personally, I'm married now and I've never really been long between girlfriends through my 20's yet still... when I was at EB Expo, I found myself unable to look away from a few of the cosplay girls and the dancers. Meant absolutely no offense, and didn't even have a desire to talk to them or anything but yeah, definately something deep inside draws me toward the women.

Also anecdotably, feminine voice just sounds so nice to us... I believe there was some research which indicates a reason for this, based around the reason women don't develop much deeper voices is because keeping the pitch of childen (though it does change of course) continues to inspire protective instincts in men.. and I dunno for certain but my conclusion is that for the same reason, Men _LOVE_ the sound of women, talking will get attention, moaning will immediately turn men on and the crescendo after that is enough to make a guy dump his productive fluids..

Whee, fun topic... I think it's important to say as well, this doesn't need to be an us vs them women vs men thing. It's an education thing... we need the nerds to feel more comfortable around women so more women will come... once there's sufficient gamer women for gamer blokes then all of this is going to go away... like it pretty much has in carshow industry and stuff nowadays. (A lot of car blokes find chicks into cars super sexy, and why not right, and now it's ok for girls to be into cars there's a balance which is happy)

Also diverging into the car topic for the moment... in that scene it has been accepted that men are interested in power and speed while women are more drawn toward asthetics and comfort... but it's symbiotic... bloke gets a blown v8 with a mandrel exhaust and is happy, but then because from his community he learns the women want nice seats and sound system lower road noise etc, so he puts on a better highperformance muffler and gets the interior trimed, installs a decent stereo.

Between the two differing goals one thing can become better than either side could have made it on their own... and our community will be the same.