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I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.
There's nothing fundamental about women that prevents them from enjoying conversing with others over the internet.

Must be another weird Ohio thing...

I know that, and that's what I was trying to get across with the last part of the post. I know there's no good reason for my surprise, but I feel it anyway.

I'm mostly just wondering if anyone has the same sort of twisted perception of the users of the Internet.

Well the ratio of guys to girls is so high that it's easy to assume all posters are male, but the legend of the female computer user is true.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.
What is wrong with where you live?

*is a girl*
*is online*
*knows some very basic programming crap... well... I used to*

*Has a stupid number of posts and wastes too much time here*

Though to be fair, if my computer ran the sims2, I would spend most of my time playing that instead of sitting here.

I'm female. :)

What is wrong with where you live?

*is a girl*
*is online*
*knows some very basic programming crap... well... I used to*

*Has a stupid number of posts and wastes too much time here*

Though to be fair, if my computer ran the sims2, I would spend most of my time playing that instead of sitting here.

My computer runs The Sims 2 at an extremely fluid framerate, and I still spend most of my time here :D.

I always thought it odd how so much of the regional invasion/defence community are female. It is supposed to be after all, the most dry, nerdy part of the game.

And yet... :confused:

Well part of it might be the fact that you never hear about the female internet pedophiles, rapists, and child pornographers and such.

The internet sexual offender is usually portrayed as a middle-aged white guy. They keep telling you to watch out for people like that, so you begin to suspect that people you meet are one of these people(after you get to know them, that probably goes away, but the impression is still in your mind). I guess over time people begin to link the internet user with men...

At least, that's a theory...I guess.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.


You must not have poster details turned on. You won't find too many guys w/ pink signatures and callsigns like 'uberspamqueen'. ;)

As for there not being too many female computer users near you, a lot of people use private computers to post stuff to the internet (home desktops, laptops) so it'd be hard to know for sure.

I should add that I play an MMORPG called EVE, which pretty much requires use of TeamSpeak and headset. And there are indeed females on that.

Some girls even know how to write in HTML. I really shouldn't find that a turn-on, but I do...

The men I know who wander around the internet spend a lot less time on forums then I do, they generally look at gaming/music/random flash animations/webcomics, you'll find more women then men on forums generally(not nessessarily here, but women use the internet more as a tool for communication whereas men use it for entertainment </generalisation>.

Damn, I used to play EVE. Why don't I play it any more?

Shit.

I always thought it odd how so much of the regional invasion/defence community are female. It is supposed to be after all, the most dry, nerdy part of the game.

Well, that would be because women tend to be far more creative and better story tellers. However, I too know of no female in my area who I would even for a second think would post on a forum like this. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that women form tighter social circles much easier than we men and thus tend not to do much unorthodox communicating.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.
I am female and I have frequented several forums under various pseudonyms. I also like roleplaying (though not on NS), video games, and video game programming.

Why is it so hard to imagine?

I am female and I have frequented several forums under various pseudonyms. I also like roleplaying (though not on NS), video games, and video game programming.

Why is it so hard to imagine?

I assume it's easy to imagine, but it seems too good to be true to him.

What is wrong with where you live?

*is a girl*
*is online*
*knows some very basic programming crap... well... I used to*

*Has a stupid number of posts and wastes too much time here*

Though to be fair, if my computer ran the sims2, I would spend most of my time playing that instead of sitting here.

If your amount of posts is "stupid", what would you call my amount?

My computer runs The Sims 2 at an extremely fluid framerate, and I still spend most of my time here :D.
The Sims 2 (while I love it) is frequently considered a stereotypical girl game.

Me, I enjoy almost all video/PC games, except Barbie, Mary Kate and Ashley, and all that girlie crap plus Leisure Larry and Playboy Mansion type games. :rolleyes: One of my favorite games of all time is Mortal Combat, which may very well be the DEFINITION of the fighter genre.

My computer runs The Sims 2 at an extremely fluid framerate, and I still spend most of my time here :D.
:(

Can we trade computers?

It sounds like yours might have enough room for all my X-men cartoons.

Why is it so hard to imagine?
I think it's the fact that we never meet anyone like that in real life.

Come on guys, when was the last time you asked a girl about her interests and heard "online gaming" in response? It just doesn't happen. Seems like you can meet real female gamers or internet enthusiasts online, but never in real life.

If your amount of posts is "stupid", what would you call my amount?
Are you in school wasting time you should spend studying on here?

Come September, I'm not even allowing myself to come home until 4 in the afternoon. I'm going to go to the library after classes so I don't come home and find the computer waiting for me.

I think it's the fact that we never meet anyone like that in real life.

Come on guys, when was the last time you asked a girl about her interests and heard "online gaming" in response? It just doesn't happen. Seems like you can meet real female gamers or internet enthusiasts online, but never in real life.
I'm not a gamer. I'm just broke and never have anything to do.

I have never even participated in a RPG. Well, once, kinda. I don't think it was a game so much as one of my friends invited me along for some role playing adventure thing. I don't think I'm good at it.

I think it's the fact that we never meet anyone like that in real life.

Come on guys, when was the last time you asked a girl about her interests and heard "online gaming" in response? It just doesn't happen. Seems like you can meet real female gamers or internet enthusiasts online, but never in real life.
I think that's more society than anything else that keeps a girl from just blurting out that one of her hobbies is "browsing the forums of (insert name of site here)". However, my mom doesn't care. She makes it well known to all her friends that she spends a huge portion of her day online/on her laptop.

I think it's the fact that we never meet anyone like that in real life.

Come on guys, when was the last time you asked a girl about her interests and heard "online gaming" in response? It just doesn't happen. Seems like you can meet real female gamers or internet enthusiasts online, but never in real life.

Amen to that one. At least, such was the case until I met my current girlfriend. She plays both Warcraft and Unreal Tournament online- something I had yet to experience on a personal level with any girl I know. Some quite possibly occasionally played a single game, often RPG's. Mind you, Online I know loads of girls who play RPG's like Ultima, Diablo, and neverwinter Nights....maybe inside every female there's a gamer trying to get out?

Mmmm.......That notion sounds like heaven...We geek males can but hope.

I'm going to go to the library after classes so I don't come home and find the computer waiting for me.
The computer will always find you.

Amen to that one. At least, such was the case until I met my current girlfriend. She plays both Warcraft and Unreal Tournament online- something I had yet to experience on a perconal level with any girl I know. Some quite possibly occasionally played a single game, often RPG's. Mind you, Online I know loads of girls who play RPG's like Ultima, Diablo, and neverwinter Nights....maybe inside every female there's a gamer trying to get out?

Mmmm.......That notion sounds like heaven...We geek males can but hope.
I think there is a gamer in everyone. It is up to the individual if they will allow themselves to be entertained in this way.

Are you in school wasting time you should spend studying on here?

Come September, I'm not even allowing myself to come home until 4 in the afternoon. I'm going to go to the library after classes so I don't come home and find the computer waiting for me.

No. I dropped out of school.

Imagine if a girl told you she played Quake III. There's no insight here, I just think it's a cool hypothetical scenario.

The computer will always find you.
Not if I'm on the third floor quiet study area where there is nothing but cubicles as far as the eye can see.

No. I dropped out of school.
Oh. Well, see then it's not so silly that you post all the time.

It's pretty silly of me to do it when I should be trying to do better in class.

I'm a chick and I'm more "manly" than most of the guys I talk too online... We joke about it a lot.

I also obsess about gaming and I loves me my Unreal Tournament and my Diablo 2.

(I also collect Spawn action figures. My nerdy secret.)

:(

Can we trade computers?

It sounds like yours might have enough room for all my X-men cartoons.

Well, it would definitely have enough room... If my brother would uninstall all the useless shit he never uses. Urgh.

Although, what else would one do with 160gb of space? I guess you just have to use it...

The computer will always find you.

A creative solution: rig little electrodes to the keys on the keyboard that shock your fingers when you've been typing too long.

Why do girls like RPG's so much? I like them too, but I don't think they're superior to other games. I like games from all genres. It's quality and quantity that matters when it comes to games, but not genre.

Why do girls like RPG's so much? I like them too, but I don't think they're superior to other games. I like games from all genres. It's quality and quantity that matters when it comes to games, but not genre.
I like RPGs because I like being someone else. See? Simple.

Why do girls like RPG's so much? I like them too, but I don't think they're superior to other games. I like games from all genres. It's quality and quantity that matters when it comes to games, but not genre.

Let's see. A good RPG lasts 40+ hours, and there's a lot of quality gameplay there.

Imagine if a girl told you she played Quake III. There's no insight here, I just think it's a cool hypothetical scenario.
This sort of thing nearly happened to me, actually.

There was this cute Irish girl living in my halls this year, and early on we were talking about what sort of stuff we do at a party. She was a textiles/fashion student, a type which posters in the UK would recognise as a bunch of vain air-heads. However, she said she worked in the city centre branch of Game.

Now as the name suggests, Game is a big chain of computer game stores. So I was like "Woo!" and asked her how she got into all that. She said she had worked at one for a couple of years in Ireland, and the company transferred her job when she took up studies here.

So what did I do? I asked a question about graphics card driver compatibility issues. It turned out she didn't actually know anything about games or computers, all she did was read barcodes at the till. :(

I think you can imagine what a conversation-stopper that was. Way to make a first impression. :(

I have the right to want to have babies!

oh, and my girlfriend plays Final Fantasy, KotOR and some other games i forget.

I like RPGs because I like being someone else. See? Simple.

Yeah, I understand liking RPGs, I've certainly spent many hours on Neverwinter Nights, but I think other kinds of games are just as good.

Well, it would definitely have enough room... If my brother would uninstall all the useless shit he never uses. Urgh.

Although, what else would one do with 160gb of space? I guess you just have to use it...
That's twice as big as my computer.

:(

Yeah, I understand liking RPGs, I've certainly spent many hours on Neverwinter Nights, but I think other kinds of games are just as good.
In my opinion, fighting, shooters, simulations, puzzlers, and strategy games all tend to start looking like others within their genre if you've played enough. I've seen several RPGs which were different and original compared to others within the same genre. I like that, but I don't know if I actually communicated my thoughts in a way that made sense there or not. :p

That's twice as big as my computer.

:(

It's twice as big as my old hard drive!

In my opinion, fighting, shooters, simulations, puzzlers, and strategy games all tend to start looking like others within their genre if you've played enough. I've seen several RPGs which were different and original compared to others within the same genre. I like that, but I don't know if I actually communicated my thoughts in a way that made sense there or not. :p

As long as the others within the genre are good, I'm not so bothered. However, I find that the more you play things, the more you notice the subtle differences. Like music in that way. Speaking of music, video game music is awesome.

video game music is awesome.

You're damn right it is! Final Fantasy VI (III in the U.S.) has some of the best music ever recorded. Seriously.

well FINE but....


there arent any MIDDLE AGED women on the net! certainly not posting on forums! it just wouldnt be natural.

You're damn right it is! Final Fantasy VI (III in the U.S.) has some of the best music ever recorded. Seriously.

I wouldn't know. But I would know I've downloaded 172 MIDI files from http://www.vgmusic.com

I wouldn't know. But I would know I've downloaded 172 MIDI files from http://www.vgmusic.com

Well, do yourself a favor and download some FF6 tracks.

As long as the others within the genre are good, I'm not so bothered. However, I find that the more you play things, the more you notice the subtle differences. Like music in that way. Speaking of music, video game music is awesome.
I find the more I play any one kind of game, the more I find it dull.

I know what it is! It's the age old stereotype: women find doing the same thing over and over again boring, men find it comforting!

well FINE but....


there arent any MIDDLE AGED women on the net! certainly not posting on forums! it just wouldnt be natural.
*Laughs.*

I am female and I have frequented several forums under various pseudonyms. I also like roleplaying (though not on NS), video games, and video game programming.

Why is it so hard to imagine?
It's not it's a plus ;) lol

I find the more I play any one kind of game, the more I find it dull.

I know what it is! It's the age old stereotype: women find doing the same thing over and over again boring, men find it comforting!

That's not true. Women insult men over and over again and never get bored.

....do any of you use chat programs such as yahoo or aol ? there are tons of women on them. as far as women on forum pages well.......im shamed and angery to say most women i know don't have any actual hobbies or interests.they just run about getting drunk and laid untill they are pregent then that is their hobbie ...come on ladies stop this insanity we can be so very much more. i fly small passenger jets for aliveing and collect ww1 and 2 gear and weapons, iv'e also been trainning in martial arts for 17 years love import cars hate pencil pushers no offense pencil pushers ...i fly you're bosses around to more useless meetings and might be inclined to teach one of those yuppies how to fly for a price what do you say?.....oh and my favortie non raceing games would have to be rts mostly and fps as a close second

....do any of you use chat programs such as yahoo or aol ? there are tons of women on them. as far as women on forum pages well.......im shamed and angery to say most women i know don't have any actual hobbies or interests.they just run about getting drunk and laid untill they are pregent then that is their hobbie ...come on ladies stop this insanity we can be so very much more. i fly small passenger jets for aliveing and collect ww1 and 2 gear and weapons, iv'e also been trainning in martial arts for 17 years love import cars hate pencil pushers no offense pencil pushers ...i fly you're bosses around to more useless meetings and might be inclined to teach one of those yuppies how to fly for a price what do you say?.....oh and my favortie non raceing games would have to be rts mostly and fps as a close second
This reminds me of the Sobriety thread I was just in... :p

I am female and I have frequented several forums under various pseudonyms. I also like roleplaying (though not on NS), video games, and video game programming.

Why is it so hard to imagine?


Fuck the western worlds aversion to cloning humans. They should clone you :D

:fluffle:

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.

:confused: What year are you living in? Everyone is on the Internet. FACT.

Fuck the western worlds aversion to cloning humans. They should clone you :D

:fluffle:
Oh, dear, I think I've spawned my own geek fan club. :)

Imagine if a girl told you she played Quake III. There's no insight here, I just think it's a cool hypothetical scenario.

I would ask if she played 'Rocket Arena' :D

hey...i love the quake series i believe quake 3 is a bit light on replay value but still its fun

Oh, dear, I think I've spawned my own geek fan club. :)

INDEED

I'm female... and i'm on here, i assume that about 3/4 of the people on here are guys... but it's probably more than that

hmm..

I'm female
I use the internet a ridiculous amount
I have enough knowledge of Visual Basic that i can do stuff that most people assume only more 'hardcore' languages can do
I know plenty of HTML

Female and on the net :)

Hrrrm...I do know what you mean, even though I'm female...I'm a Computer Science Major...and out of nearly 200 freshmen...I was one of the 18 girls. Although girls do flock on the interenet, it's hard to imagine the typical girl posting on a forum from a game like this.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

I actually understand that feeling. I automatically picture male personas behind all the posters I meet here, and I have often been shocked to discover the femaleness of my compatriots. I can assure you, however, that we womenfolk are around. :)

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.
There are significantly more males than females around this forum, so you are part right.

Yep. I have the habit of automatically assuming anyone I talk to on here is male unless discovered otherwise. :P

Also, most of you are young enough that finding females on the net that are into gaming and such is much easier than for someone like me.

Try being a 33 year old, single "right-leaning" libertarian guy and find a woman even near your age that's into more than just chatting and email AND enjoys discussing politics and is into games to any extent. Not only are they rare IRL, they're rare as hell on the 'net, too! :headbang:

Well, i'm defiently no female but i know more females that spend there time on the inet then males were i live. it just depends were you live. if you live in a town were most people are alcoholics or stoners, well i guess ya get my point. my gf for instance uses forums far more than i do and she finds the time around college during school

I'm a female and proud of it;)
but I also tend to think of people that post online as male in a general sense...I think it is from general stereotypes (among other things)...most people that voice opinions on issues are male...yes, there are females, but as stated earlier on this thread, about 3/4 of the public speakers are male...and i tend to think of the people on this forum as mostly male...despite the fact that I know better....it is hard to tell from someones post if they are male or female...the default probably lies in the comparison to our social structure

I'm female.
And not only do I spend far too much time on the net, I'm also a systems analysis/computer science major. So there. :p

Oh, and I'm totally mature.

This place seems something of an anomaly. OK so I'm a wargamer which kinda biases my choice of forum but there seem very few females on the forums I usually check into. This place is relatively crawling with you. Of course that bastard Klarsh Voxiz* has something to do with that ratio I think.

*Worst 'net stalker ever. Trust me on this.

Female NS and Civ addict.
Does forty count as middle-aged?

Female NS and Civ addict.
Does forty count as middle-aged?

Yes, unless you're planning to live until 120. That would make 60 middle-aged.

:p

*waves* I'm a girl!

I don't know much about politics or anything like that... but oh well. Its all about expiramentaion, ne?

Worst comes to worst I can find a cute guy to hook up with here. :D

(*dies in the corner, giggling*)

Some girls even know how to write in HTML. I really shouldn't find that a turn-on, but I do...

I do. :D Proficiently. And I'm learning PHP.

There are females on line - a LOT of them - but the BIG question is do females play WARGAMES online?

There are females on line - a LOT of them - but the BIG question is do females play WARGAMES online?

That genre's usually reserved for retired fat guys.

:D

Anyone up for Mordheim? (www.specialist-games.com/mordheim) ;)

I once recall seeing what apparently was a female at a forum for a tank game and another in a strategy forum but those were rare... most I guess play the Sims or if they must play, they do FlightSims. Anyone know otherwise?

Female NS and Civ addict.
Does forty count as middle-aged?
Come here and give good ol' Pluto a smooch! :D

:fluffle: :D

I'm a woman. I use the internet. I play video games. Got a problem with that? >_>

I'm both an internet addict and a vagina-owner/operator. I spend my online time reading and discussing. I like some RPG and strategy games, but I usually spend my time on small puzzle games where I can burn up my superfluous mental energy while pondering concurrent spurts of vitreole.

AoE is probably my most favourite game ever. I spend way more time on the NationStates forum, though, because I find that hiding in a game can isolate me from events that are happening right now.

I used to chat heaps on paltalk in the social issues category, but I feel that it's become such a haven of racial and religious bigots that some of the rooms on there make me physically sick.

I ought to be swatting up for my exam tomorrow. Panic. Guilt.

I'm both an internet addict and a vagina-owner/operator. I spend my online time reading and discussing. I like some RPG and strategy games, but I usually spend my time on small puzzle games where I can burn up my superfluous mental energy while pondering concurrent spurts of vitreole.


Nice line. :) And great choice of words.

AoE is probably my most favourite game ever. I spend way more time on the NationStates forum, though, because I find that hiding in a game can isolate me from events that are happening right now.

Yeah, AoE is good. Haven't played in ages though... It's yet another one of the discs that has successfully managed to disappear off the face of the earth into the void that is my room. lol :p

I used to chat heaps on paltalk in the social issues category, but I feel that it's become such a haven of racial and religious bigots that some of the rooms on there make me physically sick.
Well, we have the religious bouts here every now and then (seems to be that the topic periodically cycles and eventually gets back to this).

I ought to be swatting up for my exam tomorrow. Panic. Guilt.

The scary thing is, that's WAAAY too familiar. That was pretty much me a week ago. Just replace "swatting up for my exam" for "have an assignment due".

As it turned out I pulled it off and finished the assignment in one day. Then again, this was for Management of Organisations, easily the most useless and redundant TAFE module on the Australian continent.

I mean, the thing had a 25-question MULTIPLE CHOICE examination as it's "final". I mean, please. 1 hour to do it, I finished it in about half that, if not less.

I'm supposed to have a Comm law exam on Thursday, but I'm not going to bother. I've already failed the subject anyway (missed a class assessment) :p. I'll do the module next year. Properly.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.
I know what you mean. And then i get really jealous when I find out someones a woman. hahaha

in my work as a business jet pilot iv'e got alot of time to waste.....i love war games. operation flashpoint has to be one of earths finist ways to sqonder time ever! yes im female and love things that go BooM a great deal,i carry a wireless laptop with me and pop up online any time day or night whenever iv'e got the opportunity to do that......well stop by my nation somtime

You must not have poster details turned on. You won't find too many guys w/ pink signatures and callsigns like 'uberspamqueen'. ;)

My favourite title is "Semi-Pro Sp@mpig"!

Come on guys, when was the last time you asked a girl about her interests and heard "online gaming" in response? It just doesn't happen.
That's because nobody actually admits to something so nerdy as being an online gamer.

hmm..

I'm female

WTF? All this time I have thought you were male!

Everyone should be like Ashmoria and me, and just put FEMALE or MALE in the Location spot.

Part of the problem is the use of the word "female" as a noun instead of "woman". That idiom clearly marks you as someone sufficiently lacking in social skills as to be assumed to be a basement-swelling Internet junkie. There's nothing wrong with that, but you can't be expected to be taken seriously by any women you DO meet if you insist on using terminology that makes you sound like a zookeeper.

Just a thought.

WTF? All this time I have thought you were male!

Everyone should be like Ashmoria and me, and just put FEMALE or MALE in the Location spot.
It's been in my sig for months :p

wow, since when is the computer girlie a myth? I am girl, I surf online from whenever I get up to whenever I get kicked off the comp, and so do most of my friends. I like to play games online, some of them are very violent, and I enjoy them. why should the fact that chicks like me exist be such a big surprise? If you have trouble believing we exist, get off your comp for a while and see if your off-line lady friends spend time online. either you're gonna find there's a lot of us, or you live in a really weird area.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.
How odd.

:)

Hopefully people can tell by my nations name that I'm female. If they're too clueless to figure it out, tough luck.

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.

This has to be a joke.. you can't be for real! :rolleyes:

I know I may sound more than a little bit naive by saying this, but it's really hard for me to picture anyone who posts on forums to be a woman.

Perhaps it's because no women in my area seem to be interested in being anywhere near computers, but it seems foreign to me that women spend much time on them.

yes, all us women are really very bored men!