It recently came to my attention that an undisclosed Destructoid member is over 6 feet tall and weighs over 250 pounds, all muscle or so he claims. This startling discovery has challenged some of my fundamental assumptions about the fellow gamer, and it has prompted me to disinter other cases that are typically abnormal for our species. With estimable journalism, I've decided to collect pictorial evidence to contradict the popular theory of homogeneity with evidence of biodiversity within the
specimen "Masculinus Gamerus" and alternatively the more rare "Feminum Gamera"



A "booth bro" or "booth bear" Masculine men can also be gamers



This guy too? Come the fuck on!

I am a pretty simple guy, I am a graduate student who comes home late to play for a few hours, jerks off (unless the wife puts out), and goes to sleep. I've traditionally thought of the adult gamer as one who does the same -- a fairly educated guy who is either thin or fat. I myself fall in the latter domain, I am not obese but I have definitely have seen better days in my youth. To me, this homogenity is a standard worldview, although I am more used to seeing women fall in the same category than I used to be growing up.

What I don't see too often are the smoking hot female gamers recently coined Smokus Hotus F. Gamera such as Megan Fox. According to the info for the Transformers community playdate on Xbox Live, Megan is appearantly a real gamer. I'll take that with a commercial grain of shit.



Darling, you've played as many games as I have had girlfriends.



I'd "co-op" that



If only reality was this sweet

On a serious note, there are several women who are both good looking and successful within the gaming industry like Assassin's Creed producer Jay Raymond and IGN poster-girl Jessica Chobot



Mmm, Chobot



The professional Miss Jade Raymond

Although my categorical assumptions are challenged on a day-to-day basis, I still find comfort in my pre-designated zones of social identity. Gaming is my hobby, and it is within that my own unique masculine identity has burgeoned. What I find interesting is how some people, notably women, can co-exist in multiple social spheres at the same time. I don't see myself as a party-goer even though I am certainly far from ugly. I just have a belly because I enjoy more solitary and sedentary activities at the moment. Perhaps my personality as an introvert has also predestined some of my choices in life. Regardless of what I think personally, I hope you enjoyed my humerous somatotypical treaty of the gamer.