"happyopi;c-17417918" wrote:
Girls have always gamed as long as there has been video games and the idea that they're late comers to the hobby is a modern narrative and also completely wrong.
I think that a lot of that ongoing perception has been due to the fact that advertising for video games, and to a degree most nerdy pastimes, has been directed almost exclusively to a single demographic -- white suburban teenage boys from middle class households. The women have always been there, it is just that nobody was interested in talking about them, and in the case of publishers even talking to them.
