OMG Girlz Don't Exist On Teh Intarweb!

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?"

Something doesn't add up.

[Gravedigger3]

My mom is 40 years old and she has a level 37 Warlock on WoW. I messaged her on MSN after reading this asking about her experience. She is not shy about the fact that she is a woman and she has used vent now and then and she hardly ever gets a reaction like this article describes.

I dont know what server she is on or what internet she is using but I have been in many raids with women and have never heard anything quite to that extent that she is complaining about in this article.

Re:Something doesn't add up.

[aafiske]

And I have a friend whom I play Halo 2 with, and no one ever believes she's a girl. Generally they accuse her of being a pre-teen boy. Or constantly talk to her, sometimes crudely, sometimes not crude, just annoying.

The feminazi squad will mod me down

[heinousjay]

There's some sort of weird perception on this site that women dig sensitivity or whatever the fuck. You'll find this idea taking root anywhere large number of unused penises congregate. The strange this is how this idea continues to take root, since its adherents obviously don't reproduce.

Re:My Wife

[Danny Rathjens]

You are just jealous of our spinning jumps and dance moves. ;)

Re:In order to defeat the calls for "pics plz"

[chrish]

Wait, you're trying to use your /. user ID to pick up ladies?

Sorry to break it to you, but that's not going to work...