heyy internet
by QueerGamersXist on Comments
hey gamespot/internet, i'm not sure if i'll be using this blog or not, but i might pop up on the forums from time to time so i thought i'd introduce myself. i'm a white, genderqueer 20something gamer from the pacific northwest. i grew up on SNES, original GB, 16-bit sega and mostly, n64 (zelda ocarina of time will forever be my favorite game) before graduating to an original xbox. 12 years later and i just picked up an old wii and a 360 as well. after years of denying that i was a "gamer" --in spite of the fact that i most certainly loved and played video games -- i finally accepted the title, however begrudgingly. my reluctance was in large part due to the stigma of the gamer image: the offensive-in-every-way-imaginable and do-nothing-but-game-dude-bro stereotype and wanting to distance myelf from it. ironically, the reality is that i'm about as far from that image as possible --indeed i'm a target of that group in many instances -- and so that accounts for the other part of my reluctance... the fact that in general, the gaming community is really hostile towards a lot of people, myself included. so i finally signed up for an account here cause i'm sick that sh*t. i'm sick of all the cis, straight, white male BS in the gaming community and wanted to try and participate rather than just lamenting it from my couch (literally). i'm looking for others like me --the feminists, the queers, all those who also want to find gaming news, reviews, and discussions w/o the constant barrage of homophobia and misogyny (et al). i would love to see people on gaming sites talking about more than just the technical proficiency/game play of a game, but also it's narrative, it's representations (or lack thereof) and social implications. i'm really sick of this unwillingness to engage - the "keep your politics/feminism/anything that makes me have to think outside of shooting things and yelling F*G on the internet" BS. games and gaming culture don''t exist in a bubble outside of our social and political worlds, it's way passed time gamers started acting like it. so anyway, that's why i'm here. hi :)