64% of Online Gamers Are Female

According to a report discussed on 1up, a new study by the Nielsen folks finds that more than half of the 117 Million U.S. online gamers are women. From the article: "The study's announcement release doesn't break down what games they're playing, though we expect sites like pogo.com, which feature a multitude of Flash-based games are rather high on the list. Even more surprising is how many older gamers are playing. While the teenage market dominates in numbers, the study says more than 15 million gamers, about 8%, are actually at least 45 years old."

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Women and Poker

[ztransform]

I believe online poker is quite popular with woman; they are able to play it anonymously without the feelings of intimidation they would probably receive in a face-to-face environment. There are so many egotistical overbearing men in real life is it any wonder that online anonymity would be popular with girls, from dating sites where men can't grab their asses, to online gaming where they can pretend they are men..?

Re:yeah right

[TrappedByMyself]

And 100% of the 45-year-old+ crowd still lives in their mom's basement.

And mom still pays the bills which accounts for the high number of women.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Woman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Woman (disambiguation). A nude contemporary European woman Enlarge A nude contemporary European woman A woman is a female human. The term woman (irregular plural: women) usually is used for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term f or a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "women's rights". Contents [hide] * 1 Etymology * 2 Terminology * 3 Biology and gender * 4 Culture and gender roles * 5 Gallery * 6 See also * 7 References * 8 External links [edit] Etymology Symbol of the planet Venus, also used to indicate the female gender among animals who reproduce sexually Enlarge Symbol of the planet Venus, also used to indicate the female gender among animals who reproduce sexually The English term "Man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their gender or age. This is indeed the oldest usage of "Man" in English. This derives from a Proto-Indo-European root *man-" meaning hand. A similar cognate is Old Norse "mund", hand. The distinctive and dexterous hands of humans, compared to those of other animals, are the basis of this term and the similarly derived term, "manual", by hand. In Old English the words wer and wyf (also wæpman and wifman) were what was used to refer to "a man" and "a woman" respectively, and "Man" was gender neutral. In Middle English man displaced wer as term for "male human", whilst wyfman (which eventually evolved into woman) was retained for "female human". "Man" does continue to carry its original sense of "Human" however, resulting in an asymmetry sometimes criticized as sexist by those who fail to understand its root in describing the hand as characteristic of humans. [1] (See also Womyn.) The symbol for the planet Venus is the sign also used in biology for the female gender once a male gender exists in the animal species being described (males do not exist in early animal forms, where all reproduction is female generation of more females, exclusively): a stylized representation of the goddess Venus's hand mirror or an abstract symbol for the goddess: a circle with a small equilateral cross underneath (Unicode: ). The Venus symbol also represented femininity, and in ancient alchemy stood for copper. Alchemists constructed the symbol from a circle (representing spirit) above an equilateral cross (representing matter). [edit] Terminology Zanzibar woman, c. 1890 Enlarge Zanzibar woman, c. 1890 The English language's original word for "woman" was Old English wf, akin to German Weib; it later became the modern word "wife." The modern word "woman" etymologically derives from wfmann, with the addition of mann, "person", from Germanic mannaz. This formation is peculiar to English. The equivalents for "Man" in Old English were wer (a cognate of Latin vir, "man") and wpnedmann, literally "weaponed person". As previously mentioned, the term Man continues to carry its original sense of "Human", though this usage results in an asymmetry which is sometimes criticized as sexist when the root is unknown. The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex" in English; it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child. Nowadays girl sometimes is used colloquially to refer to a young or unmarried woman. During the early 1970s feminists challenged such use, and today, using the word, girl, to refer to grown women in most social settings and the workplace (as in office girl) typically is considered inappropriate and denigrating in the United States and United Kingdom because it implies a view of women as infantile, having a parallel in the use of the term "boy" for black men to deny their adult status in racist communities. It is sometimes stated that the use remains commonplace in several other English-speaking

Re:I bet it's true

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait wait, let me get this straight - the study must be true because in your house your girlfriend plays the games and not you? Wow, you are really fucking stupid.

Re:90% of gaming girls are guys playing girls

[Kadmos]

Most chicks I know don't mind a reasonable pass by somebody decent. It's the dope smoking lazy sleazy assholes who don't take care of themselves which are the hassle. And for some reason they never seem to get a clue (or care) that while they present themselves as such they don't have a chance (something females do realise).

If you had the dregs of society after you, you would soon get sick of it too.