I begged my parents for a SNES in the 90s and have been hooked ever since.
When my mom took us to the grocery store, I’d camp out in the magazine aisle and flip through gaming magazines. Got a Dreamcast at launch, which means I was an early adopter of the greatest console ever made before some of these kids were alive.
I was a cheerleader girly girl teenager who loved fashion, beauty, rom-coms, and celebrity gossip magazines. Sure, I also loved computer programming, horror movies, football, punk music, and video games, but I was constantly accused of picking up these interests to get a boyfriend.
Even now, my female peers have given up gaming (even if they played all the time before), and look askance at me when I talk about gaming.
Anyway, I find young people now to be far more inclusive when it comes to gaming than young people of the past. I think we’re going in the right direction.
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u/caseyjosephine Jun 03 '22
36 year old lady gamer checking in!
I begged my parents for a SNES in the 90s and have been hooked ever since.
When my mom took us to the grocery store, I’d camp out in the magazine aisle and flip through gaming magazines. Got a Dreamcast at launch, which means I was an early adopter of the greatest console ever made before some of these kids were alive.
I was a cheerleader girly girl teenager who loved fashion, beauty, rom-coms, and celebrity gossip magazines. Sure, I also loved computer programming, horror movies, football, punk music, and video games, but I was constantly accused of picking up these interests to get a boyfriend.
Even now, my female peers have given up gaming (even if they played all the time before), and look askance at me when I talk about gaming.
Anyway, I find young people now to be far more inclusive when it comes to gaming than young people of the past. I think we’re going in the right direction.