Do boy gamers hate girl gamers? Yes. frankly, I'm sick of you baby factories mucking up my cathartic games of virtual butchery with your rainbows and puppy dogs. I wince every time my girlfriend wanders barefoot out of the kitchen to play a game of Animal Crossing on my Gamecube: Doesn't she know that the estrogen she's oozing all over the controller is having an acidic reaction to the Cheetos-dust patina I've laboriously worked up over the years? You girls want to game? I've got a game you can play. It's called "make me a sandwich."

I'm just being sarcastic, of course. No, I love girls, and I love games — in my book, they go together like bacon and peanut butter. But apparently, not all male gamers are thus enlightened, and Global Gaming League has posted up a series of anecdotal vignettes from girl gamers about the rank misogyny they face everyday in pursuing their hobby. As it turns out, a common reaction from the rank mouth-breathers who habitate XBox Live when put into contact with a real, live girl gamer is either smug condescension or an out-of-control boner that whips around the room, snapping spines, like loose fire hose. Who'da thunk? Florian Eckhardt

Do Boys Hate Girls? [GGL]

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