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This must have taken so much work! And for what? They didn’t win… not even once!

Okay, so maybe the work was worth it, even if they didn’t win.

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I wasn’t alive during the seventies (to my knowledge). Maybe some of you can convince me otherwise, but I have a vision of the girls back then being just as into the pinball machines and video games as the guys were. Some time between then and now, something has changed. I blame “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” for the Atari.

Whatever the reason, as a guy who enjoys his video games I often find myself wondering why it is that girls seem much less interested in gaming than guys do. I ponder this point as I’m in the matchmaking phase of some Halo 3, and then when I get into the pre-game setup and there happens to be a girl playing with us I am reminded exactly why.

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