That's what I don't understand. Nobody was stopping young girls from playing video games except parents who didn't condone video game playing. Metroid isn't a male only franchise. Neither is Mario or Zelda or Castlevania or Metal Gear or anything ever like that.
Now, those same boys being dimwitted bigoted assholes, I can see that wholly, but more often than not, guys loved girls who gamed. It's a fun hobby to share.
I only question what Gies intent was to score a game a 7.5 and not justify where those 2.5 points went. I also questioned whether he was consistent. I never got an answer to both these questions.
I guess that's true. Hanging around on 4chan and the like you would naturally come across that moreso than other places, but even then, it used to be that phrases like 'tits or gtfo' and 'there are no black people on the internet' had some actual merit to them as neither your gender nor your ethnicity should be relevant on an anonymous imageboard. Besides, it was hilarious making fun of people who took offence to and engaged at things said by people who might as well not exist if you chose to ignore them.
This was before 4chan became really popular and new people started misusing old jokes out of context. Nowadays even that place is very open to all kinds of people (depending on the boards you visit) as long as you're not obviously looking for attention and even back then people didn't mind if it was actually relevant to the conversation at hand.
But you're better off just not engaging with idiots in the first place. Some people can't seem to look farther than their nose is long and other people are just straight up trolling. Ain't nobody winning that battle.
Anyway, sleepytimes for me, see y'all.
