Girl Gamers

Alright, I hate to be this person, but after a particularly awful game of Left4Dead, I really feel like a good rant.

I am aware that there exist jerks, a-holes, and generally unsavory people on the Internet and in online gaming circles. However, I am still taken aback by the frequency with which I run into guys in games such as L4D and other first person shooters who treat me as their verbal punching-bag because of my gender. (If you haven't already guessed, I'm a girl.) These people maybe wind up in the same game as I do 1 out of 20 times, but this number really ends up being too frequent. How hard is it to headshot zombies when some guy's asking you if you need to "change your tampon" or "sit on my lap to use your medkit"? Why should I and other female gamers be subject to calls for sandwich-making or dish-washing while crowning witches or what-have-you? Again, most male gamers I run across are true gentlemen that treat me with perfect respect and equality. If I suck at the game, they let me know, but at least it's not blamed on my gender. I do not mind a-holery, but I do mind cat-calls, references to how I could better spend my time shopping or cooking, and other absurd comments that have nothing to do with anything.

I'm so darn miffed at this. It is all I can do to not squeeze the trigger when those little green cross-hairs pop up. Well, proverbially speaking, since L4D doesn't have colored cross-hairs.

Up to Date?

Hello Internet.

I was thinking about the nature of blogs. You can't really call something a blog if you only update it every 6 months or so, now can you? I'm going to try to update this more regularly. Kind of like I'm going to try to workout more regularly (hah). We can't put all our eggs in one basket though, so I'll try to even the odds a bit. Something might get accomplished, you never know.

Also, flashcards are lame. I spend more time making them than using them. I can't even justify the amount of time I spend in their construction by calling it studying because it is one of the most mindless, tedious tasks ever invented. I don't even like using them for art history. Or in general for that matter. They even have to come up with backward-a**, confusing systems for organizing them! They're not ordered on their own, how silly. I prefer my notebook. You know, where, by definition, you keep notes? That way you can draw comparisons between related dates and artists or what-have-you. All this based on an organized list.

Actually, I'm more miffed that I keep forgetting the one card that I'm supposed to have to get credit in my class. I have like 150 other cards in my bag, just not that one, elusive bast*rd.