Armies 'for girls'

[former user]

my point exactly 

I should have added:

How comes that women rather often do not choose to reflect "control" in the wargaming hobby?
Or: is it the aspect of the control issue that reflects in wargaming, that leads to a diverging demographic in gender distribution in the hobby?

[Connectamabob]

How comes that women rather often do not choose to reflect "control" in the wargaming hobby?

Do we even know that's the case though? It seems a bit of a "blue sky" hypotheses to me.

Again, I'd point to video games, and the fact that a lot of these ideas about what women may or may not have psychological biases to/against (relative to men) have, if anything, been empirically disproven in that arena.

The only reasons I can think of as to why tabletop games would be different from video games in this regard all have to do with the in-person nature of tabletops, and how that effects player culture, rather than the nature or content of the games themselves.

[grant]

[nic-e]

At least at a sausage fest you're never short of bbq food.

[FramFramson]

I see you've noticed the sign on the door to GW's headquarters.

[Conquistador]

I see you've noticed the sign on the door to GW's headquarters.

They don't want money from females?  Why?  Cooties?

 

Gracias,

Glenn

[Conquistador]

They don't want money from females?  Why?  Cooties?

 

Gracias,

Glenn

Crap I just violated the "GW has it's own thread" rule.      

Sorry Moderators...   

Gracias,

Glenn

[FramFramson]

I think one-off jokes are fine so long as it doesn't devolve into the usual argy-bargy. 

[grant]

I think one-off jokes are fine so long as it doesn't devolve into the usual argy-bargy. 

I agree 

[FramFramson]

I did have a reply anyway, but I moved that to the GW argy-bargy thread. 

[Tactalvanic]

I was curious, and dug through my lead mountain.

I have a serious lack of bikini clad, sword/gun carrying bimbo models.

Which is to my mind not a bad thing. I must be getting old.er.

Granted, I reckon most of those big armoured knights and warriors etc are all wearing enchanted bikini tops and thongs under the full plate, who would know, and hey its extra protection, having those +2 nipple plates of arrow attraction isn't it?

That aside, it seems to come down to the usual:

Presentation

Context, context and er....oh, context!

Perception
Boobies

and of course the classic "not allowed".

Look how that was addressed by the online gaming industry, if there was a similar interest in doing so for our "little" hobby, it would be done, and maybe will, if a different company strategy is adopted, to gain access to the revenue that might be generated by doing so..

Meanwhile. If they want to be weird/play war games to, they are always welcome - I am more than happy to hide the bikini clad minis somewhere out of site if need be now I know I still have some.