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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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[–] Mantis 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I'm a woman in my thirties and I've played (on PC and console!) since I was five years old... learned a very, very long time ago that most people online would assume I was male and that it is often prudent not to correct them. So I don't. Twenty years of conditioning telling me to keep my head down. Now that I think about it, that's pretty sad.

I hope young girls nowadays feel more comfortable being open about their interests. Maybe I should be more open myself; I can take the hits if it makes things even a little bit easier for them.