Girl Gamers: The Good, The Bad and The Bitchy

I have been gaming for around 20 years and have been playing online for 7. In my 7 years of online gaming I have come across many Girl Gamers, Some I Still play with others have disappeared into the gaming community and then there is the small handful I can consider as my real life friends and have met that I would not give away.

When Xbox first launched the official Xbox community set up a group for girls called Gamerchix, with nearly 10’000 members before it shut down there were a lot of different personalities. While I spent some time with this group a Clan was set up called Trixies GamerchiX (TGC), this was one of my first experiences of playing online with a group of girls. We played a lot of COD2 and to start with it was great fun, then the personalities clashed, we had certain members who were very competitive and very in your face with the other teams to insure them that they were beat by girls. In the end the Clan Split up and some of us left attempted setting up a new Clan away from GamerchiX called Girlz are Legendz (GAL). Due to this clan been an American based Clan I was unable to keep up with their game times so in the end had to leave.

After my experience with those 2 Clans I went back to just casual playing with my friends I had found while spending time in the Australian Xbox Forums, These guys were always polite and friendly and not competitive at all and like myself jut enjoyed having fun and a laugh. I have got one good friends left from the GamerchiX and she is a lovely lady from Florida who I use to stay up all night with playing the first Saints row and having a laugh.

2 or 3 years ago I decided to give the Girl gaming community another chance and venture over to the PMS/H20 forums, although this was an American group they had an Australian division for Halo 3, I went through the trial and made it and made my new PMS gamertag ,PMS Domino was born. Although due to work I didn’t play as much as some of the girls and guys when I did I felt very welcomed, I Never really had the skills like a lot of the girls in PMS but they never made you feel inferior. I love having a few games of Halo with PMS/H20 although they were organised it was still fun. The Australian Division of PMS has now disbanded but I still do have a few of the PMS Girls and H20 Boys on my Friends list today.

Since PMS I have not joined another Clan on Xbox I found myself just wanting to play with friends casually and having a laugh. All the Girl clans I looked at a while ago were either very competitive or there forums were full of bitchy remarks. So during my time in the Girl Gaming Community I have found there seems to be 4 types of Girl Gamers

Type One: The Casual Girl

This is the group I play with now, we are the girls who just play for a laugh, we play anything, we play with the boys and don’t go advertising that we are girls and are not arrogant enough to go screaming out YOU GOT BEAT BY A GIRL. The casual gamer girl just slips in with the gaming community and gets along with all the Casual players be they male or female.

Type 2: The Shy Girl

This is where I was when I first started gaming, This is the girl who’s gamertag does not show she is a she and who will not use a mic in public games as she does not want to put up with constant abuse and guys cracking on to her. You will find her mostly in the single player world but when she does go online it is with a muted mic and she normally only stays one match. The shy girl just needs a bit of a nudge to come out of her shell so don’t give up on her.

Type 3: The Bitch

I have come across a few of these types in my time in the girl gaming community, These are the girls who make sure they announce to everyone in the lobby they are a girl and they will kick your ass, these are the girls who crack onto random guys in the lobby trying to make herself look cool even if she is in a relationship. These girls spend more time bitching about other players then talking tactics and are out for themselves, teamwork is the last thing on their mind.

Type 4: The Competitive Lady

This is one I have only ever experience when playing with PMS/H20, these girls are cooptative but they are polite about it, they hold their heads high in the gaming community but they do not put people down. They help the Casual gamers out and give them some tips, they are always happy to play for fun but they also are ready for a battle.

I know everyone has their own personality but from my view this is the main 4 types of girl gamers I have run into over the years in the Xbox community, For some reason the PS3 community has not shown me much in the Female gamers, but I have been in my Clan SPT for around 4 years so have not really ventured out to have a look.

So next time you run into a female gamer remember she does not want to hear about how big you penis is, she does not want to sleep with you, she is there to game just like you and should not have to put up with been told to get back in the kitchen and make you a sammich.I mean if you can't get into the Kitchen to make yourself a sammich you must look like this (see not everyone like stereotypes)

So in conclusion we are all gamers we all love to play, just get on with it and stop and think before you speak being polite goes a long way and will earn you a lot more respect in the real world then you KDR

To Finnish of I have some Quotes from The Men of SPT about how they see Girl Gamers

Axe99 -  "brutal, and you'd better watch your back"

Not really, of course, bumped into a few in my time, and girl gamers tend to be like most gamers (at least to blokes - may well be some bitchiness between each other, I've never really understood that m'self, but seen it between women plenty IRL).

Rocket - Had a great girl gamer in the HellFish back in the day, but sadly lost touch with her. She went by the name Dafunkette. At first she was just using her BF's account Dafunk, so we all started calling her funkette, so when she finally made her own account she just went with that. Wasn't the strongest player, but we always had great fun with her in Socom 1 & 2. Had us all in stitches one particular game when we were all dead and the only player left on alive on our team was camping it out. We were all just talking crap, and all of a sudden funkette starts telling us about a certain piercing she had. Funny as fuck.