Confessions of a (female) video gamer

( Cut for massive tl;dr, first of the nostalgic ramble type... )

( ...and then of the emo variety... )

( ...and then of the World of Warcraft variety... )

I am a woman, and I am not a particularly good gamer. I'm aware of this, and on most levels I don't care, because I honestly have more important things to spend my time, money, and energy on than video games. But being told, explicitly or implicitly, that I'm a poor video gamer because of my gender – that I will forever be fundamentally incapable of becoming a good gamer because I'm a woman – really just gets to me sometimes.

And damn if it doesn't make me want to prove them wrong.