Should females really be encouraged to "game"?

I don't understand why one would condone encouraging the vulnerable young minds of today's female youth to start gaming. They are not naturally blessed with the intensive hand-eye coordination skills required for electronic gaming.





Not to mention that they shouldn't be exposed and allowed to bond with their dirty-minded, hormone-driven male counterparts in such a setting.|||To be honest I don't really think its encouraged that females play video games and the girls that do game are most likely to have started from brothers, boyfriends or just friends. I'm a girl that plays xbox and it all started because my boyfriend played xbox. I would go over to his house to see him and he would just sit on his xbox half the time playing all them shooting games. He then decided to buy a new xbox and gave me his old one. I was just going to use it to watch dvds on my tv in my room. My boyfriend then gave me a game that had all these different mini games on it coz he thought I might like it. I started playing a few of them and they became quite fun. He then started joining me into his games that are two player and from then on we always play xbox together. Its not something we do constantly when we see each other. if we just want a night in we will lay on the bed together with a bowl of chippies or popcorn and try and achieve the goals in the game to finish it completely. Its kinda like a little bonding time. We do it instead of watching movies, which is more interactive and fun.





My advice to girls whose boyfriends play a lot of games is to get involved with it because it is a lot of fun when playing together. AND with things like xbox, you can talk to each other over the chat so when your not together your able to talk as well as play together.





You kind of sound a little sexist with this question to be honest with you... 'They are not naturally blessed with the intensive hand-eye coordination skills required for electronic gaming.' Who really cares if girls play games anyway?





P.S how old are you because you sound like your 10000 years old :/|||By saying that you sound like Gaming is a disease upon our culture? Gaming has been around for the past 25+ years but back then Gaming wasn't as widely accepted as it is now. It was considered a nerd thing and such but you fail to realize that even young girls were sitting alongside their brothers back in 1985 playing Super Mario Bros on the NES. Why are you stereotyping Females by saying that you think they lack the "intensive hand-eye coordination" to play the modern games of today. I know so many females who play Xbox 360 and PS3 (not just the games like on the Wii which most guys seem to classify as a "chick console") and not only the more casual games but the hardcore shooters and blood and guts games as well and on top of that all are reasonably good and i would go so far as to say are better than many males. To say that females should be discouraged from gaming is a very narrow-minded statement. Yes there are negative influences mainly ONLINE but that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone has to play online on Call of Duty to be considered a "Gamer". If you enjoy doing something than do it even if it bothers certain people like you.|||there is no philosophy to gaming. You just pick up the controller and go. Gaming is directed to everyone, its not like there is only one game to play. Girls can play, boys can play. Its your desicion.





And i know you are referring to the Call of Duty series. Think about it. At any one time there are over a million people online across the world. Can you honestly label 1.5 million people as "dirty-minded, hormone-driven males?" Sure there are people who swear and throw slang but thats a handful. And there is no handicaps between males and females in gaming. It really depends how much practice you have. I admit I've been wooped around by girls in COD and likewise with boys. Its something everyone does.





If you enjoy it, you can play; no strings attached.|||No one is pressuring you to play video games or anything. It an option of what to do in your free time. Also as you stated, "They are not naturally blessedwith the intensive hand-eye coordination skills," playing video games would increase Han eye coordination...|||why shouldn't they? gaming (not excessively) is proven to HELP hand-eye coordination skills! the point isn't that they can't, it's because games are fun as well! if you want some support, check out the OpticGirls channel on youtube. Theyve got girls playing all sorts of video games!|||Well just because your a weakling doesnt mean we should follow right after you. %26gt;.%26lt;





I'm a girl and i game, ive been gaming since i was a little kid. M-rated! ^_^ And i love resident evil! I love mario games! I love the sims, i just love video games in general.


I hate stupid questions like this, what the heck? No one is stopping this girl, gamers forever! woo hoo!|||Maybe you aren't blessed with hand eye coordination but I do just fine, thanks, so speak for yourself...





And take your 50s minded, outdated attitude back to the, well, 50s.|||Why not? We could kick there butts! ;) I think woman can be as good as anything as men!|||im getting the feeling of a new addition to one of my favorite sites :D yahoo fails but prolly not..