gamers gotta go

[gorzek]

I'm glad you brought up the nostalgia because of the current gamer mentality is based on a false image of what the past was like. Gaming was more inclusive in the '80s. It wasn't until the "edgy" era of the '90s that video game companies decided to focus on teen boys and young men, at the exclusion of women and girls. Plenty of women and girls played games anyway, but that gets conveniently forgotten.

The situation is even sillier now because gaming is such a global phenomenon that cuts across demographics. "Real Gamers" like to be exclusionary and act like mobile or even console gaming isn't "real gaming," but come on. It really is just this contingent of loud, resentful men being angry that a hobby which never belonged to them might include other people.