Ok, here are a few of my thoughts:

Firstly, I generally don't mind/care about female gamers.  I care about gamers.  If they have boobs, fine, if they have chest hair, fine, if they have a tail, fine.  I ONLY care about gamers, and their ability/enjoyment of games.

Second: This video is a COMPLETE FUCKING ABORTION:

  

Yeah I can't watch this.

Somebody seems to be frustrated.

The worst thing about that video is the singing. As to your rant, I'll just post a pic I photoshopped for another thread.

Atrocious singing in my opinion. Also fucking Joker.

   That video was insufferable... blehh. I completed it though. I should get a prize.

 >robot chicken dvd
>hatchet dvd
Yep.

 I get that this video is supposed to funny, and maybe there's a little credit to be given for the "yeah, girl power! we can play games too!" aspect of it.... except for the fact that the entire idea of this was to generate cash / further the careers of the people involved.  I don't really see anything about this to show any real love of video games, just the listing off bullet point terminology to hit the target audience.

I'd known about this for a while but had never bothered to watch it before.
Why would Stan Lee agree to be in this?

Not even going to play that video. The description is more than enough.

There must be something wrong with me. I thought the song was kind of catchy. As for Olivia Munn, I watched Attack of the Show for a while and that girl would do anything for a laugh. I always appreciated that and the fact she seemed to not give a shit. Cool chick.

Thumbs out of my ass and up in the air to agree with this

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac: Apparently, the public hates Olivia Munn.  I'll direct you to her freshly-cancelled, completely awful sitcom. "

I don't want to make any sweeping generalisations here, I'm just going to speak from my experience. I know there are plenty of gamer girls who aren't like this.

I've met a lot of girls who seem to suffer from the same problems that really attractive girls suffer from (not that there isn't a cross-section of really attractive gamer girls, that's beside the point.). A lot of really attractive girls get a lot of attention from an early age (not too early, sheesh). Guys lust after them, things get given to them, and they can become arrogant fairly easily. I find this to be true for gamer/nerdy girls as well. Nerdy guys are often attracted to nerdy girls. Why not? Common interests are good. The problem is that there have always been a lot more nerdy guys than nerdy girls, so the girls will get a lot of attention from a lot of guys, and can develop some pretty unattractive personality traits.

But yeah, that's just from my own personal experience. I'd love to meet a gamer/nerdy girl who isn't attention seeking and arrogant :D

If they want to call themselves gamers and geeks, let them. Doesn't bother me. Its not like there's a test to define whether someone is nerdy or not. Just as you define having an S rank in The Darkness as nerdy, I'm sure others will define nerdy as even including a lightsaber in the video.

they dont play games.

I think you're overreacting a bit. This shit happens in every industry. You're just taking it personally now because it's starting to seep into "gaming". Do you think all cheerleaders or female sports reporters are huge sports fans? Do you think every newscaster (male or female) is intelligent and informed? Or do a lot of them get hired because they are attractive and have nice speaking voices?      

@cheebaking:

Wait, there are ranks in The Darkness? I played that game to death and never saw that!

What a horrible music video.

lol.. dude i like it :P

While I do agree with you, isn't the video and song just a joke?

The singing is fucking terrible. This is a cover of that Katy Perry song right? Atleast she can sing. This is...fucking terrible.

The OP for this topic belongs in the nerdrage thread.

" The singing is fucking terrible. This is a cover of that Katy Perry song right? Atleast she can sing. This is...fucking terrible. "

" @AmonHouston said:

" The singing is fucking terrible. This is a cover of that Katy Perry song right? Atleast she can sing. This is...fucking terrible. "

Wat? "

" @Wrighteous86 said:

" @AmonHouston said:

" The singing is fucking terrible. This is a cover of that Katy Perry song right? Atleast she can sing. This is...fucking terrible. "

Wat? "

Haha, seriously look up Katy perry-Peacock. the most catchiest song ever. if you look it up on youtube becareful. all im gonna say. "

Sorry, i'm Swedish. Most of us don't have chest hair let alone being hairy.    It never mattered to me the gender of the "gamer". Know plenty from Steam, Xbox Live, MMO's  and i treat them exactly how i treat the guy "gamers".......Like shit! They do tend to be less obnoxious than guys though.

Hey bro, u mad?

" There must be something wrong with me. I thought the song was kind of catchy. As for Olivia Munn, I watched Attack of the Show for a while and that girl would do anything for a laugh. I always appreciated that and the fact she seemed to not give a shit. Cool chick. "

I will ignor for a moment the horrible lyrics just to focus on the that they didn'y even bother to hire someone who can sing.

    Spoof    n.

That's just marketing. People trying to make money. That's not what most female gamers are like. Sure, some girls see the marketing as what they should act like, because they're tools, but most girls just do their own thing.

Goddamnit Seth Green.

The song itself is a parody, but yes, parody or not, it is essentially full of using the idea of "gamer girls" in a provocative manner. The discussion of "gamer girls" seems to have been a bit of a controversial thing on Giant Bomb and perhaps most disappointingly I've even seen threads full of people convinced that female games consumers deserve to be plagued by legions of idiots if they so much as mention their gender.  While I believe the video only further encourages the problem of many male games consumers seeing female games consumers as sex objects, I think you may be reading a little too far into it, I don't think it is trying to make a serious statement and problems to do with female games consumers being accepted as part of the gaming community stretch way beyond this tiny video.

I think where I really disagree with you though is, what if they're way into Halo? What if their only experience of gaming is WoW? What if they did terribly in the Giant Bomb trivia quiz? Does that really matter? One rather disheartening thing I've seen a number of times before is girls identifying themselves as "gamers" only to have forums full of people angrily judging them to see if they're really worth of the prestigious title of "gamer". It doesn't matter and it shouldn't matter, if a woman wants to sit around and play Demons' Souls all day, fine, and if a woman just wants to play Angry Birds for a few minutes during her lunch break, that's fine too. We should respect all games consumers as equals, unless they give us a real reason to do otherwise.

I feel like this is attempting to fit some sort of 'gamer culture' that one can fit into.  But gaming isn't a culture, it's an activity. 

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

This is pretty embarassing. Like-- who is this for? I think the people who this is for hate it.
I liked the director's cut thing better cos him tryina talk to that girl about Start Trek was pretty funny.

Posting this here because... gaming music videos- I dunno;
  

I don't get what never being able to "win" an MMO has anything to do with this song or "girl gamers". Also, so what if someone doesn't know tons of game trivia, what pedestal are you on to say that you can't be considered a "gamer" just because you don't know the whole back story to every game. The only thing bad about that video is the atrocious singing. Go get a glass of water, calm down.

" I don't get what never being able to "win" an MMO has anything to do with this song or "girl gamers". Also, so what if someone doesn't know tons of game trivia, what pedestal are you on to say that you can't be considered a "gamer" just because you don't know the whole back story to every game. The only thing bad about that video is the atrocious singing. Go get a glass of water, calm down. "

" @DuskVamp said:

" I don't get what never being able to "win" an MMO has anything to do with this song or "girl gamers". Also, so what if someone doesn't know tons of game trivia, what pedestal are you on to say that you can't be considered a "gamer" just because you don't know the whole back story to every game. The only thing bad about that video is the atrocious singing. Go get a glass of water, calm down. "

Pssht, yeah, but you're probably not even a real gamer, so why should I care about your opinion? Quick, tell me 3 different facts about Guild Wars or you're not allowed back on Giant Bomb ever again!

(Whoa, I just looked up the Guild Wars franchise page here on GB. There are soldiers with guns and stuff in 2? Wasn't the first one a traditional fantasy game? Maybe I should leave Giant Bomb...)

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"I think you're right, leave now and leave Vinny to me. "

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@cheebaking:

Wait, there are ranks in The Darkness? I played that game to death and never saw that!

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I don't like the singing...

Can't fucking stand gamer girls. Get the fuck out. 

I'd love to meet a gamer/nerdy girl who isn't attention seeking and arrogant :D