It might help if men stopped taking statements of truth personally and warping them.
If our society functions in the way that women play less because, say, they have too many domestic responsibilities, it doesn't mean you should be insulted and indignant! You aren't god, right? You didn't create this world, nor you devised cultural roles for it. Just saying. And so, there's no adequate reason to hurry and shut people's mouthes up when they make statements about how the world functions.
Unless you do play games while your own girlfriend or wife cooks and watches kids, in that case I'd understand the reaction of guilt and subsequent anger and denial. Lmao! But if not, I suggest you consider reacting differently
As for female friends needing to be convinced to play games, now that's one flawed assumption. Mine are all gamers since school. It's very funny how mine and my brother's taste aren't in accord, too. He plays Battlefield games that I cringe from these days (too tired of shooters) and thinks that RPGs are "too complicated" (his own words).
One interesting thought occurred to me while reading this thread. People say personal experience doesn't reflect reality. But come to think of it, if we deny personal experience without having convincing and 100% accurate data to replace it, we end up with potentially even wronger views. So if anyone wants, they can dismiss my previous paragraph and still be sure that all men play smart games and women play dumb games. But that would be dismissing evidence that challenges this view. Dismiss evidence, call it "an exception", and voila, you've "proven" whatever you wanted.
And heck knows why women don't kickstart… I don't, either! Maybe because I feel unwelcome at all gaming sites. That one jerk (not you) in this thread is the best example why. *pats herself on the back for having courage to post in this thread again* Oops, I really hope noone thinks that it's the "blame game"
