Gender and Gaming

Last semester i researched a similar topic, it was the different interaction between men and women with new technology. Some of the explanations i found were pretty common with many authors on this topic.

They found that:

1. Women are more social, their more expressive
   
2. Men are more focused in achieving their goal

This provides one of many explanations for why women play less games than men. It's not cause they can't play it or anything. it's cause they have no one to play it with!!

Think about it!!

Games on facebook are played with friends and i'm sure you have many messages on latest news on what score your mate scores and there are just as many girls and boys playing them.

World of Warcraft and sims all provide the player with idea their socializing and the female players in those games are almost the same as males. The players can talk to other players in war craft and the conversation option in sim allows the player to express themselves

Girls Gossip

You wouldn't see girls playing counter strike because there's no interaction with people verbally, there no way for them to express their ideas or emotion, hence they have no interest in playing this kind of games. All the male reader reading this would agree when I say all women ever want to do is to express their issues, quote "I just wanna talk".

A blog is also a good support for my argument, Women have the need to keep a blog or a diary just as a platform to express their self, to share their emotions, experience with someone/something.



Men on the other hand, plays games to achieve the best/ top score. To have the best score, to be the BEST!!


This is something that happened to me awhile back where i saw one of my mate watching a game on youtube.
I asked him: what you doing?
He replied: Studying bro
WTF your watching a game, What is that anyway? i commented
He pauses the video and explained: Bro this is a video on how to stay alive in xxxxx(i forgot the name of the game) and this guy stayed alive for over 15minutes, im studying his techniques.

This guy!! studying up on other peoples techniques to improve his playing stills now that just shows how committed and eager he is to win.

Males can spend hours on games, once they push start their in another dimension, with one goal in mind " beat the system" they train, they search for special moves.

This can also be seen as the way males express themselves and relax after a hard day at school/uni/work. As men, we don't like to share how issues with females because that would make us look weak! Men has always been known to be dominant stronger and better in every way than women through out history and for us to express our weakness just lowers our status.

Hence you see that men express their anger and stress on action games where they can let go...


To conclude, I believe one of the reason why women don't play games as much as men is because it doesn't provide them with a way to express themselves.

keep in mind there are exceptions and i am... only generalizing!! All images found on Google images =]