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Gaming Cafe Scene In Iraq Illustrated
Otter writes "An Iraqi weblog has a series of pictures of the gaming cafe scene in Baghdad. Lots of Counter-Strike and Medal of Honor, apparently." The photographer also uses the comments to respond to questions about the lack of women in the pictures: "The reason you don't see women at these places is that Iraqi women (at least my age) don't have that much interest in gaming... Another thing is that I'm a bit cautious about photographing women due to cultural issues and misunderstandings they might get me wrong and think I'm using the pics for... err 'other purposes'." We previously reported on earlier comments about gaming in Iraq.
You're wrong.
I work at a lan cafe, and we regularly have girls ( 15 - 24-ish ) playing during the nightgibs.
The reason there is no women is the same as in the rest of the world :)
Women aren't much into gaming is it ?
How does this get modded as flamebait? It's clearly the truth, for every 100 male gamers there is probably 1 female. I suspect this will change with the current 13-25 generation of gamers, but females over 25 don't play video games for the most part, while males over 25 do.