(18/07/2012 02:22 PM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Agreed it was odd and I probably didn't know for sure if they were women or not, but the point is that the stereotype that girls can't be as good as gamers as males (or just the fact that the sex matters?) does exist in some peoples minds. This is not restricted to this example as I have run across countless of times where a girl usually says " well whatever, I'm a girl so winning against me doesn't matter/don't expect me to play well/whatever" (it was while playing super smash bros at a friends house).

Girls like that were probably never serious about gaming anyway.  And have probably only started playing a game because of their brother or boyfriend, but never really had an interest in games in general.  Basically, they aren't gamers to begin with, so of course they are going to say that.