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From: jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re:  Game playing
Message-ID: <1222@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 14:38:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 14:38:16 1984
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     >Why do only a miniscule number of women play games?

Maybe you are playing games with the wrong crowd. I don't have any inclination
to play D&D with with one group here because it is all (seemingly) unwashed
males in first year who are socially backward. I am totally out of place
amongst them and they are as uncomfortable about it as I am.
However, I know another crowd -- mainly couples --
who play D&D and I fit in very well with them and enjoy their company. The same
phenomena might apply with the other games you play. It may just be that
the crowd you happen to be in is not one that attracts women.

     >How often
     >do they waste hours on debates of completely stupid nature? (Does
     >teleportation preserve the soul, or example.) I haven't a clue, but...

I haven't a clue either. I think it is "stupid" to debate whether women or men
play games more or whether people are friendlier on the west coast than the
east coast, etc. when most of us have no way of knowing any absolute answer
without taking a nation-wide poll. Even then, the variation seen by any
individual in a particular section or stratum of society is so far from the
statistical norm that the "true" answer doesn't make any difference.

     >(ie S-F is male-dominated.)

Depends on what authors you read...