Everything at Costco is great . Try a churro . <| sep |> I suspect but don ' t know that young girls aren ' t encouraged to seek hobbies and pastimes for personal enrichment and joy the same way boys are . Heya buddy , girl gamer here and I think you ' re a bit offbase here . Women are encouraged to have hobbies , and we have lots of them , but what hobbies those are is heavily affected by our culture . Arts , crafts , textiles , literature ? Fill yer boots , ladies ! Computers , maths , science ? . Lots of barriers here . I ' m a 25 F working in STEM fields , and in your age range ladies will have been heavily discouraged to pursue these routes . Now , gaming for our generation had a little bit of that bias , but it wasn ' t anywhere near as bad as we faced in computing or mathmatics . Most of us gamer ladies found our own way to games , and didn ' t find too many obstacles . Pokemon and Zelda paved my path , and my interest in programming got me into lots of weird and wonderful other games . Lots of other ladies I know came in via Final Fantasy and are now MMO hardcore gamers on FFO . But these days , if we try to game , there ' s suddenly a metric ton of obstacles . Whiny teenagers sending us rape threats if we try to use voicechat . Sexual creepers . Having to hide our gender , our voice , anything that might turn a relaxing night of gaming into a nightmare . Read the article My first virtual reality groping Mic for an experience of how awful it can be just trying to use fun new tech . Being a girl gamer can be a hostile as fuck environment . It ' s worse now than it ' s even been . We ' re still here , still gaming , but we ' re up against a lot of barriers . A lot of us are tired and let down , and we ' re hiding to keep ourselves safe . It ' s not that we weren ' t encouraged to play them , it ' s that we ' re constantly being told we don ' t belong .