Where did you gather those statistics? If it's gathered from, for instance, hits to websites, then I think Linux users are largely underrepresented. Linux users often get mistaken for users of other operating systems. For one thing, I often get placed into the Windows portion of the statistics despite being a Linux user because I use the Windows version of Firefox under Wine.
Yeesh, you're buying into stereotypes as much as they are. Who are you to say what a "real gamer" is? I'm a 22 year old female studying biopsychology who loves ballet and reading and can be something of a political activist. I don't fit any of those boxes of what a gamer is and I don't have the gamer "image." Amazingly enough, I'm still an avid gamer known to addictively play games all night long despite having school or work early the next day, as well as program my own.
Yet apparently, I'm not a "real gamer" because I don't fit some prefabricated mold of how a real gamer is supposed to be.
Ooh! Ooh! Me! Not to mention all the other females who would like to just once in a while manage to find entertainment where our own sex is portrayed as something a little more than a sex object.
Sex belongs in porn and erotica. Not every single movie, TV show and video game you see. At the very least, they could take the other 51% of pairs of eyes into consideration and have some nice-looking males prancing around thongs.
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Where did you gather those statistics? If it's gathered from, for instance, hits to websites, then I think Linux users are largely underrepresented. Linux users often get mistaken for users of other operating systems. For one thing, I often get placed into the Windows portion of the statistics despite being a Linux user because I use the Windows version of Firefox under Wine.
Yeesh, you're buying into stereotypes as much as they are. Who are you to say what a "real gamer" is? I'm a 22 year old female studying biopsychology who loves ballet and reading and can be something of a political activist. I don't fit any of those boxes of what a gamer is and I don't have the gamer "image." Amazingly enough, I'm still an avid gamer known to addictively play games all night long despite having school or work early the next day, as well as program my own.
Yet apparently, I'm not a "real gamer" because I don't fit some prefabricated mold of how a real gamer is supposed to be.
Ooh! Ooh! Me! Not to mention all the other females who would like to just once in a while manage to find entertainment where our own sex is portrayed as something a little more than a sex object. Sex belongs in porn and erotica. Not every single movie, TV show and video game you see. At the very least, they could take the other 51% of pairs of eyes into consideration and have some nice-looking males prancing around thongs.