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Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly (kotaku.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nulluser@lemmy.world to c/technology

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The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too

This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d expect to this “revelation.”

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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

Interesting title. As if "Women" and "Gamers" were two distinct groups.

[–] felicity@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Indeed, I’m assuming it wasn’t the female gamers that reacted badly…

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capital G Gamers doesn't just mean people who play games, it means people who've built their whole identity around being weird little exclusionary creeps about gaming

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 6 points 1 year ago

Valid point, but even then, the two groups overlap.

The title seems to suggest that all Gamers were male. The article mostly talks about how that is not the case. It refers to these vocal gamers as 'some annoying dudes' within the text. Evidently, only some Gamers reacted poorly, but omitting the "some" makes for a more clickbaity=better headline.

The irony is, this headline strengthens the very stereotype the article aims to combat.