OMG Girlz Don't Exist On Teh Intarweb! 225
The Escapist has a brilliant article penned by a young woman who has to deal with blatant disbelief at her existence. Why? Because there are no women on the internet. From the article: "This is the story of my internet life. (I'm not quite sure if it's a good or bad thing that I have an internet life, but internet life it is.) I'm a girl, I play games and I exist on the internet. Or so you think. Time after time, I get told I'm not a girl and that I don't exist. It's happened so much that I'm beginning to think that it's true. So, I spend some time getting to know them. Who are these mysterious creatures called girls if they don't exist on the internet? What does this mean for the men of the internet?"
I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:5, Funny)
Who Cares (Score:4, Funny)
Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Note that this initial disbelief may soon be followed by, "OMG BOOBZ!!1!" so caution is advised.
Oh god... (Score:5, Funny)
THERE'S a calendar I wouldn't want for Christmas.
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:5, Funny)
oh god, the horror!!!
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:5, Funny)
Now don't get me wrong! I personaly don't believe in these so called "people of another gender." Babys drop the sky and ride magical stars down... kinda like Kirby.
RA (Score:3, Funny)
Umm, it's the internet (Score:3, Funny)
But yea, there are girls on the internet, girls on slashdot, girls in WoW. There seems to be a minority of them that identify themselves as such, but hey, that goes for everything: gender, race, religion, etc.
It rarely matters. I've been the only guy in guilds/clans, one of a handful, one of many, etc. Never find this out or really care until enough bonds have formed through the anonymity to actually give a rats ass about the other's actual real life personas.
And of course, the internet is also populated mostly by people that use the anonymity to be jackasses. Post your pics! Mexican Jewlizard! yada yada. You get to see people as they are, socially, with basically no consequences or prejudgements.
It's a wild, wild place, and we likes it like that.
Penny Arcade covered this (Score:4, Funny)
There's girls on the web... (Score:4, Funny)
They don't call it an MMORPG for nothing.. (Score:5, Funny)
Of coarse.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In order to defeat the calls for "pics plz" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It all depends on the medium and the group (Score:5, Funny)
With a name like... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:4, Funny)
You guys are yanking my chain right... oh... oh god! oh god no!
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Re:It all depends on the medium and the group (Score:2, Funny)
Pffttt.... (Score:3, Funny)
Is Slashdot that desperate for stories? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:3, Funny)
Dress up? Real women don't wear clothes!
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:4, Funny)
wow. you sound JUST like a woman complaining that her boyfriend does nothing but play games and doesn't give her enough attention. you sure you're not a woman masquerading as a man so you're treated fairly on the internet?
(with all the gender bending, it gets a bit confusing sometimes.)
There's this one girl on the internet... (Score:3, Funny)
The Internet: (Score:2, Funny)
Where men are men, women are men, 13 year Old girls are FBI agents.
not quite right (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh god... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... (Score:4, Funny)
Are you a Ferengi?
Re:Who Cares (Score:1, Funny)
2. Say some stuff just so then you get an extra step in
3. Not sure what goes here, probably something like IN SOVIET RUSSIA SILICON DIOXIDE FINDS YOU!
4. PROFIT!!!
Well WoW must be poor then (Score:2, Funny)
79% of my MSN contact list is female.
My MOTHER, who is an eBay queen and 'leet warez haxor' is, so I'm told, a female.
My three best geek pals (web design guru, game master, anime queen) happen to be female.
Not to mention my little sister, who has a veritable LEGION of friends who are constantly online.
I wonder what internet this daft tart lives on? Or is she just perpetuating a sterotype that no longer applies just to get a moment in the spotlight?