A possible explanation:
Girls in the gaming community are a minority, the ratio favors men so much that seeing a girl or even hearing a girl in the gaming community is very rare. Guys who are gamers are often considered outcasts in some way shape or form by lesser informed people. You will find a lot of parents out there that raise their daughters to have a negative opinion of guys who game. There is also this social stereotype that paints the picture that guys who gamers are hopeless, uninteresting individuals. However you will discover that a lot of guys who game actually have well paying jobs. Some are engineers, a lot are military/law enforcement, others are college professors. Hell there was one gentlemen I played with who was 66 years old, a very well mannered and very intelligent man. As you can see, it's a rather stupid stereotype (in my opinion.)
Because of this negative picture most gamers think to themselves "why would a girl would take any interested in video games." especially if the girl in particular is consider very attractive. It's another social stereotype that "hot girls" do not play video games and are above such things (again a stupid stereotype). Another social problem that contributes to this issue is that most gamers are passionate about a certain series. Often they will learn as much as they can about to series to complete the bigger picture of the story. After a while they accumulate a lot of knowledge on that particular subject and sadly intelligence, wisdom of knowledge of any sort seems to be looked down upon these days.
That contributes into the whole nerdy is taboo thing, then combine that with dating practices. A lot of girls out there only date the "hot guy" who is typically an a**hole. The nerdy gamer is nice guy and always get friend zoned, almost like being declared radioactive or infected with a virus. While these are not all reasons or factors they are a few and because of that when guys see a gamer girl they freak out because a lot of them have been led to believe other things. They probably say to them selves "wait you mean that stuff isn't true?" " there's a girl who might actually share my interests?" "I might actually be able fall in love and have a loving girlfriend or potential wife?".
Their self esteem which was at rock bottom in the subject of dating just shot up to the moon. And because they are so excited they'd practically sell their souls and the soles of their shoes. Women have that effect on men as I'm sure you'll discover or have seen. :)
Sorry for the long winded rant, take it with a grain of salt, I hope this helps a little. :)
Guys are usually the ones who are into videogames even as as children. Age has nothing to do with whether your a gamer or not, in fact, my oldest brother, 43, is a ps3 gamer and my 34 year old bro is too. The reason why guys go crazy over a gamer girl is because...
You are very unique. there aren't many women out there who's into games like that and these guys see themselves with this girl playing videogames...a chance to completely be themselves and that attracts them to you, because you are able to share this quality with them.
It's the same thing as a woman who knows about sports. It attracts guys because usually only guys are into this. however, when you see a woman, especially if she's hot, watching sports games, guys can now share awesome moments with the woman and she won't beg him to turn it off like MOST women do... that is the truth
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I don't post responses on a lot of questions here, and if I do they are usually really blunt, but in this case I am willing to make an acceptation
I don't think you are a gamer girl, but rather a girl gamer the difference being a gamer girl
does it for the sake of attention (attention whores really) as compared to a girl gamer does
it for the same reasons as a guys play them which would be because just playing video
games is freaking fun, and you know what... it's realllllllly REALLLLLY rare to find a chick
with similar interest, it almost feels like a taboo when I speak to most females about video games in modern society (ironically) in the end it's really more of something to have in
common which is AWESOME! I mean seriously who can complain about that? anyway it's nice to know there are some girls that actually play, not just for attention that is. >.>
I wouldn't go crazy if I met a gamer girl but it would be a big plus to share that hobby,passion, whatever you want to call it. I myself am a games dev. student and a basketball player in college, and I have to say it would be a great friend to be with :). Anyway, that is just my point of view others may be different.
I guess I'm in that part which is not in that "most" I don't care whether the girl plays video games or not.
Gamer guys like such girls, because video games are male dominated thus making such girls rare (although often that rareness is extremely exaggerated) and because that's a shared interest among them.
Because for the most part gamer guys are dorks and nerds and I imagine most girls think of them as such and have no romantic interest in them. so when the meet a girl who's into, no offense, dorky, nerdy things like them they they assume they'll be accepted since you have similar interests.
Because many guys would kill just to play a game with Mario Kart with their crush and her actually enjoying it. Many girls I've met shun video games or find every excuse to not play with me like "I'd had a bad day, I don't want to think anymore than I have to playing video games right now" while I play video games to NOT think lol.
Ahhhhh, you must be talking about guys who are under 23. That starts to trail off as you get older. Video games are just not as important as buying a house after awhile.
To sum it up.. Gamer girls are freakin' hot! (Depending on looks.. Sorry :P)
I kinda go crazy when I find a girl like you.
But, I don't really play games AT ALL.
I think its more of an opposites thing, I'm not dorky at all, and I'm not really the 'mans man' by any means.
Same reason as girls often find a man who can sew attractive. It makes them seem more relatable when they can do things not associated with their gender.
because there are like two of you out of every 100 guys.
Because its sorta rare and its kinda cool to be able to be comfortable with know that you can tell your girlfriend that you played a new game that was really fun and her want to play it too.
Cause they can relate to them
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