The Major Effect "The Sims" had upon the Gaming World (and why we don't talk about it)

As someone who has also been playing video games for a very, very long time, my experience has been that the idea that women didn't play them is an incorrect stereotype based on false social assumptions. I remember having my backside handed to me by women many times in Street Fighter II back in the arcades of the early 1990's. There were lots of women hanging around those arcades, and many of them were the best players. The person who introduced me to tabletop RPGs was a woman.