THQ: 'Girls have better things to do than videogames'

My g/f has been playing Saints Row [THQ] alot lately and had this to say, "Maybe we have better things to do than to buy THQ games then. Maybe I'll just go ahead and buy GTA4 instead of buying Saints Row 2". -.-

To clarify my point, my wife plays Gears and Mass Effect as well as "casual" games. But, among my gaming cricle, she's an oddity. Most of my friends' wives not only do not play games, but despise them playing them as well. Of course, this is as anecdotal as evidence could get, but if I used the comment the CEO stated to describe my friends' wives, it would be true.

*sigh*. Seriously, what is this. The 1950's? It's pretty fucking shitty to see backwards notions like this surface today, especially in this industry.

Waow, not-American and a woman. I'm really shafted today.

If this is based on proper research, then fair play. I'd probably have to agree with it in part, but I doubt it's the sole reason girls don't play videogames as much as boys.

Sorry, I must get back into the kitchen and then do my hair.

The only thing I can manage is to sigh at this article. *siiiigh*

hilarious, Professor Douchebaggins. My wife spent all day yesterday working on a list; of course this was a checklist of "to-do" items in Okami. What a douche.

Game over?

@pappadukes: So because your wife and my wife play videogames as much as we do, that nakes his statement wrong? How many of your friends have wives like yours? What studies have you read that show his statement is wrong?

Again, his statement might offend a few of the ladies who sincerely game, but on the other hand it might hold true for the general population. And considering they are business out to make money, being right on where to put their development funds is what matters to them, offending a smaller gamer base does not.

Interesting is all I have to say.

Girls do have better things to do, like cook me dinner, take care of the kids, clean the house, watch her soap opera's, Oprah, sewing, having periods, and having my fucking slippers ready when I come the fuck home! Oh... and she seems to like to fall down the stairs and hitting herself in the face with doorknobs. I'm not sure what else she does because I don't care. I had a hard day at work trading stocks. The least she could to is tidy up my domain... I mean, why else would I have this annoying broad around, so trivial with her little questions, and her easy life that I have provided for her. I mean, if it wasn't for me, she'd probably be whoring around town like all the other tramps. I know this, because I frequent these places to have sexual relations with some of them. I already did her a favor by marrying her, and why would I want to have sex with her after she's been cleaning, and doing all the easy work at home, It's bad enough we sleep in the same room in different beds. I know its hard work for her to do things like, sit on the couch, or, walk around in a dress with a nice bow in her hair. I'm being the gentleman, by having sex with other women, so my wife doesn't have to much on her mind, I know how hard it is for her to carry out multiple tasks through out the day. One less problem that my simple minded wife has to worry about!

maybe i've had a penis this whole time. *checks* No no, vagina is still there. This is just silly, honestly. I personally know more hardcore female gamers than male. There are even all female video game tournaments. . . it's a growing market and to ignore that is a serious mistake.

but then again i'm just a silly girl . . . what do i know? teehee! *goes off to cook and watch soap operas

freetouch stole my joke before I could think of it :[

@KARMACON: The reason there are all girl tournaments is because they simply can't compete with the smarter, better, stronger, faster male gamers. A study out of the University of Mayne says 95% of gamers are boys 18 and younger, and they are better than their female competition. The same study goes on to say 98% of women are to busy cooking and having babies to play these games, and the other 2% are combing their hair... I mean, what ever happened to Pong!?!?!

But in all seriousness,

"When girls play console games, they have to have gone through a whole other list of things they could have done before sitting down with them,"

How is that any different from what guys do? Hell, I go through that "list of things to do" in my head every day. The reason why games are so high on that list isn't because I'm a guy, it's because I'm a gamer. I'm sure female gamers have videogames just as high on that list as I do, just as guys who aren't gamers have it just as low as women who aren't. Gender really has nothing to do with it.

GuitarAtomik: It's also a male centered system: always pushing our cartridge or disk into the perfect fitting slot. If it was a female centered system, we'd probably have to talk it into playing, or painting it's toenails.

Oh let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. Most females I know do not have video gaming as high on their to-do list as males. That aint a bad thing. It's called having a life.

@Usedtabe

Yeah, but you're talking about girls who are probably casual gamers (sorry the term needs to be used). I know guys who think the same way as that who just don't value gaming that much or don't play AT ALL. Granted, you're more likely to come across women who are like that but that's more of a societal thing than a gender thing and basically another conversation. But among gamers I don't think his statement has any truth to it.

@freetouch

Weird. That's how how I have to turn mine on. I thought that was normal.

@Guitar Atomik: Agreed, but I think his statement was in the context of the non-gaming general population. At no point did he mention "gamers", just girls in general wjo might happen to play games. Either way, the point still stands about labeling people so quickly. Even more so if the "humourously" statement in the article actaully means it was just a joke. No one is above stereotypical jokes.

See, now this is kinda funny. At this very moment, Karmacon is in the living room playing Zelda: LTTP, and WWJD4BBQUE is cooking breakfast!

Update: And it was delicious! Pancakes with strawberry syrup. mmmmmm :D

@ freetouch

1)You're doing it wrong.

2)It's really only funny when Jim Sterling does it.

3)It's spelled maine.

Protip: On the internets, no one hears sarcasm. Try adding a
/sarcasm tag at the end of your posts.

A new study out of MAINE says 98% of georgiom's attempts to make my posts less funny fail horribly. The other 2% said I spelled Maine wrong.

Its easy to make such a broad statement and get away with it when the male population of gamers is so high compared to female.

LoL @ "shopping for drapes, getting pregnant and ruining the lives of honest, hard working men." Its so wrong, but I laughed so hard. Just realized what a bitter asshole I'm becoming these days, hehe.

I think that was a silly thing to say. Technically speaking, ALL OF US have better things to do than video games. So what?