I am a gamer. I have played video games since I was a kid, and I love them. They’re a great escape.

I’m a woman. And sometimes I really do wish that game companies remembered that lots of gamers are female. So I actually think that some of the critiques out there are pretty justified, and I’m happy to see a push for more representation. I’m sure that by the standards of GG, this makes me not a real gamer, but instead a SJW bent on destroying their identity.

But I game. I have since I was a kid. It’s just that, unlike the white boys and men, I have done it from outside the default. I’ve learned to keep my gender under wraps. A lot of times, I just deal with it, because that’s what you do as a woman gamer. But sometimes, I acknowledge that that sucks.

Of course, if casual games are included, women actually game far more than men. But you’ll find a lot of “gamers” who don’t consider those “real gamers.” And I still don’t understand how if it was really about “ethics in gaming journalism” like the true believers claim, the push for representation in gaming matters to them - but I know it does, and that SJWs and feminists are quite high on their shit list.