"But you can't possibly own it!"

[MadMike]

I'm a girl and I'm a gamer. I drag my boyfriend into gamestores all the time.

That is so cool, and sounds like a lot more fun than the places my wife drags me into, like those fabric/craft stores. Or at least she used to, until I started embarrassing her by getting bored and doing things like grabbing two of those styrofoam balls and one of those cone-shaped pieces and

After about the third time I did that, she says, "I'm never brining you here again!"

Mission accomplished.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Okay. Geeking. I can speak this language. In fact, I'm fluent in it.

I started playing D&D back when the DMG had a big demon and half naked girl on it. In fact, I own the printing of that book that has the messed up index and screwy page numbers.

I'm in the SCA. Started that about 25 years ago. Nuff said there.

I'm good friends with the people who created and ran Dark Confrontation, which I have played many times. In fact, these same folks used to own a gamestore, so I've playtested many, many RPG's.

Quit D&D for Boot Hill (yes, the original version. And I've always played it with mostly other chicks. It's weird enough that any even plays that game, much less a roomful of skirts.)

I like computer games, though I no longer have time for them. I prefer first person shooters. Or first person puzzles, like Myst or Riven, which gives you some indication of how long ago I've had time for this stuff.

I'm an Adobe guru.

I like comic books. I can hold my own in a comic conversation with the most hardened fanboy.

And, the jewel in my Geek Crown, I am one of the the three creators of the original Allout Helter LARP.

Our artist used to call me "The Queen of the Southeastern Gamer Babes."

One of the female creators of Dark Confrontation got together a handful of her cute female gaming buddies (I am flattered to be included in this lineup) to work her table at a Con and I over heard this conversation:

Dude: WHO are those women running your booth!??!?!?!!?
My friend: That's my gaming group.
Dude: (stunned pause): THOSE are GAMERS?!!?!?!?!?!?!

There's waaaay more geekchicks out there than anyone realizes.

[Ciarrai]

The fact that I play Warcraft seems to make some guys faint. Uh yes, the tiny redheaded woman who looks like she couldn't hurt anything? She's the one killing your orc warrior every night.

[Antisocial_Worker]

There's waaaay more geekchicks out there than anyone realizes.

I measure a geekchick's geekiness by her willingness to ride the Atlanta subway and tour the High Museum of Art with me while decked out in her full Renaissance finest, when we just have to take a break from the festivities at DragonCon.

[Der Cute]

tis irony

Irony, is why the male geek/gamers are always amazed at the number of female equals they have.

Ironic because: they're spending so much time with their nose to the dice/ playing the game w/ their guy friends, doodling around in their head about how to better smash the opponent....

THEY DONT NOTICE THE GIRLS RIGHT NEXT TO THEM!!

cutenoob

[ArenaBoy]

I'm happy to know that there are female geeks out there but I can never seem to meet any and I pay attention. Now I am very happy when I meet someone who is a big a music geek as I am.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Lessee. I...

...am a female. *checks* Yup, girl parts.

...am a gamer. I'm more old-school in that I prefer Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter 2 and Chrono Trigger and the like, but I can blow up a LOT of stuff in Fallout 2 and I'll whip anyone's butt at a wrestling game or X-Men Legends.

...am a pro wrestling fan. And a pro wrestler. And will break a guy in half until he admits that Matt Hyson is underrated and Stone Cold Steve Austin is a prick with only six moves, four of which are punches. Plus I have posters and pictures on my walls, action figures lining a shelf (including one still-boxed mislabeled figure that is just about my pride and joy), and a toy replica belt that I love to carry around and hit people with.

...am a comic book fan. Mostly X-Men. And I am STILL pissed about what they did to Gambit!! EFF APOCALYPSE!! EFF HIM RIGHT INTO THE GROUND!! And then they killed him off in Ultimate? And yet Cyclops still draws breath?? CRIME! CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY! And then Captain America...well...I always hated Captain America so never mind...

...love to watch Lifetime movies, so I can laugh at them, mock them mercilessly, and tear them to shreds.

...make crude sex comments right back to guys who are trying to get a rise out of me.

...would rather go to Taco Bell or a buffet than a fancy restaurant. Actually, I HATE dressing up so I would despise a fancy restaurant...

Really, despite the boobs and indoor plumbing, I'm pretty much a guy. A guy who has on nail polish right now and has a fixation on pink, but a guy.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I measure a geekchick's geekiness by her willingness to ride the Atlanta subway and tour the High Museum of Art with me while decked out in her full Renaissance finest, when we just have to take a break from the festivities at DragonCon.

Well, I'd do that with you, but I wouldn't wear my SCA garb. I want to feel like I'm wearing an actual costume, so I never wear garb to cons.

Garb is clothes. My Death costume is a costume.

[Antisocial_Worker]

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Garb is clothes. My Death costume is a costume.

Excellent. I'm sure we'll make a splash in the subway station.

What I described actually happened to me, naturally, when a friend of mine and I just had to get away from DragonCon for a little bit. It's a bit of a strange experience when a lady wearing something like forty cubic yards of velvet and lace is showing you how to operate the subway turnstiles.

Another fun memory: I was looking out from our hotel room balcony one morning of the Con when I saw a girl in a fairy costume, with a skirt that would have turned Glenda the Good Witch green with envy, board a MARTA bus. From my vantage point 16 floors up she still looked like she took up at least four sidewalk squares and I honestly don't know how she fit that skirt through the bus doors. But she did, and off she went into the muggy Atlanta morning.

Another fun and totally unrelated memory: One night someone tried to show slides on the side of the SunTrust Building across the street from the hotel.

[Kusanagi]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the stereotype of comic-book geeks never getting laid comes from.

[Horsetuna]

I mostly play Warhammer these days... my Bret army is looking great and I am the ONLY single woman who I've ever seen playing there (The other one is married. her hubby plays too)

So far, the guys have been really patient for me, albeit if its cause they think girls dont know anything or cause they are really helpful I dunno... I need the help so I am not picky!

The guys at the store also fully support my Zany army ideas, including the Asterix and Obelix army, AND the 40k Spaceballs Army I have planned (They even donated one of their own minis to use as dark Helmet. Yay for swag!)

I see about a 4 to 3 ratio at the local con, but it is more writer/artist than geek/nerd type stuff.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

You can't bait anyone in Atlanta anymore. They're used to seeing freaks running amok in the streets in the summer there. I sat in a diner wearing whiteface, black lipstick, dyed my hair to make it even blacker and teased it like an eighties hair band rocker, and was wearing all black clothes (anyone reading Sandman will recognize this character).

Nobody even noticed.

You know where that food court on Peachtree street is? You have to cross a glass walkway to get there, it's down a little from the DragonCon hotel. I asked a security guard in there once if he was seeing any craziness from the Con.

He said "No, what Con?" (how he could be in security and not know what was going on, I have no idea. I do not think he was joking. Older guy.) Just then, I looked up and saw the crosswalk disgorge about 40 or 50 Klingons.

Security guy was about to get himself an education.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

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Men can get breast cancer too!

Yes indeedy they can! In fact, breast cancer was one of the two cancers that Rod Roddy died from.

[CrazedClerk]

When I worked at the games store, the manager, assistant manager and one of the part timers were all female. Cool girls too. Best supervisors I ever had.

[myswtghst]

Joining the female geeks club. I'm a bit of an odd duck, in with Mysty. I'm all about fashion/makeup/hair/pink, but I also play video games, have three systems and a DS in my apartment, along with 2 computers, a collection of comics and graphic novels, primarily BKV, love Clerks cartoons, rude humor, and a number of other things. I also am more knowledgable about NCAA basketball and football than a large number of my male coworkers.

I've noticed that I either end up with disbelief or complete awe.