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OK, why is this news? Is it important that women play games for some reason?
Information is good. There's a stereotype that gaming is a male dominated hobby. This article challenges that.
Yes, it is important that women are enjoying a traditionally male hobby more and more. Does that bother you?
Maybe they're disinterested. Why does them being disinterested bother you though?
So disinterested that they wrote a comment and it, right?
If a person is disinterested about a mundane news they read somewhere, they have the freedom to voice it do they not? Nothing in their comment made it sound like they were "bothered" by it. You have this image set in your mind that you impose on anyone who doesn't share your point of view. This kind of behaviour stems out from insecurity.
There's a lot to unpack here, and I'm not sure that I can do it justice.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws
This is one example of what happens when women are not involved in a space. It allows for casual misogyny, because men do not tend to call out other men for bad behavior, which further isolates women in the space and keeps new women from joining. Both as consumers as well as producers.
Having a more even spread across genders means that we should eventually see more content created for and by women, which in turn will make the whole thing more accessible, and may ultimately tamp down on some of the incel garbage that many online gamer spaces have allowed to fester.
because the stereotype of a gamer is a basement dwelling male nerd who has no social life and zero social skills being disgusting and smelly.
not a nice young lady sitting in her sunny second floor bedroom on her bed playing her switch looking wholesome and happy.