Browsing the Warcraft forums this afternoon, I ran across a post
advertising a WoW Gurls, a new forum for female Warcraft players.
The response it's getting ("a/s/l plz" and "300 cooking is a prerequisite") does
not surprise me, considering the venue, but it's still sort of disappointing. Another poster pointed out a more
established forum, Women of Warcraft. While these forums
theoretically provide a safe haven for female gamers to come together and talk shop, it sometimes seems that the
establishment of a site for women merely attracts and encourages all of the typical forum trolls. Is this
behavior simply to be expected when you mention women to Warcraft's target demographic?Girls That Play Games: Redux
Browsing the Warcraft forums this afternoon, I ran across a post
advertising a WoW Gurls, a new forum for female Warcraft players.
The response it's getting ("a/s/l plz" and "300 cooking is a prerequisite") does
not surprise me, considering the venue, but it's still sort of disappointing. Another poster pointed out a more
established forum, Women of Warcraft. While these forums
theoretically provide a safe haven for female gamers to come together and talk shop, it sometimes seems that the
establishment of a site for women merely attracts and encourages all of the typical forum trolls. Is this
behavior simply to be expected when you mention women to Warcraft's target demographic?
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