What Games Do Women Play?

wikinerd writes "BBC recently published the results of an Elspa white paper on women in gaming, revealing that women prefer RPG, adventures, easy driving sims, puzzles, Tetris, and life simulations like The Sims. I suppose that the Slashdot crowd knows much more about this topic than Elspa, so I ask you: What games do women like most and are they experienced players? What would be the difference if your opponent in a game is male or female? How does the gender of other gamers or chatters affect your on-line behavior, especially when the physical distance means you may never really meet face-to-face."

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Re:Women?

[jusdisgi]

Actually, they said Southerners, not Americans. And they only claimed that they were less well-trained than their Ontario counterparts.

This may seem like a semantic difference on the surface, but it does bear some extremely important distinctions. Specifically, the way you put it, the blame falls on the American worker, who is simply "stupid." He lacks natural mental ability. The way I put it, it falls where it should, on our (poor) education and job training systems. He lacks a social system that can make him an effective worker as it should. And your way ignores the vast differences in training/education within our country; I dare say Toyota would not level these accusations at New York or Washington state (or probably most of the others...these are just quick examples). But, since those states aren't hurting for employment the way the South is, they weren't offering Toyota hundreds of millions of free dollars the way the Southern states (and Ontario!) were, which is to say they weren't even part of the question.

Point is, while there are some issues with education (which in parts of the states are pretty serious), Americans aren't and never were stupid...you don't get to where we are that way. As (Frenchman) Captain Renault says in Casablanca to the Nazi major making the same mistake: "We musn't underestimate American blundering; I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918."