The thing is that a lot of women - no matter how emancipated they are often take care of the children next to their jobs and household tasks. Leaving them little time to invest in a game that requires longer periods of gameplay in a single session. Games that provide quick fast satisfaction in short bursts are often puzzle games and other more friendly games. Easy, accessible. Pick up and play kind of things.
Men have more leasure time on their hands - or they tend to take more time and are able to invest on games that require longer sessions and these type of games often are more aggressive strategy type of games. Men still get away with that....
Perhaps the roles the genders fill and the amount of free time one experiences because of that is more what it boils down to than girls automatically being more creative/loving/constructive and boys being more competitive/destructive and the way they play videogames.
Men and women have been different since the beginning of time, then during women's emancipation there was a time that the differences were not to be talked about at all because of the risk of being called sexist - women started power dressing and actually ended up having broader shoulders (with aid of padding) then their male office counterparts. Little boys are actually worse of today with a lack of male role models in the schooling system. Males are either perceived as caveman or as feminine metroman and never has the male identity been so vague as today....
And Elise says it all boils down to testosterone levels.... or a kind of 'male psychological macho thing'
The thing is that a lot of women - no matter how emancipated they are often take care of the children next to their jobs and household tasks. Leaving them little time to invest in a game that requires longer periods of gameplay in a single session. Games that provide quick fast satisfaction in short bursts are often puzzle games and other more friendly games. Easy, accessible. Pick up and play kind of things.
Men have more leasure time on their hands - or they tend to take more time and are able to invest on games that require longer sessions and these type of games often are more aggressive strategy type of games. Men still get away with that....
Perhaps the roles the genders fill and the amount of free time one experiences because of that is more what it boils down to than girls automatically being more creative/loving/constructive and boys being more competitive/destructive and the way they play videogames.
Men and women have been different since the beginning of time, then during women's emancipation there was a time that the differences were not to be talked about at all because of the risk of being called sexist - women started power dressing and actually ended up having broader shoulders (with aid of padding) then their male office counterparts. Little boys are actually worse of today with a lack of male role models in the schooling system. Males are either perceived as caveman or as feminine metroman and never has the male identity been so vague as today....
And Elise says it all boils down to testosterone levels.... or a kind of 'male psychological macho thing'
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