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WarcraftChicks.com dedicated to acknowledging and
increasing the awareness about the girl gamers and women gamers that play World of
Warcraft. Both females and males are welcome to become members of our
community, all opinions are welcome although do not reflect the views
of the site owner or staff. Please be aware that the point
of this website is to have a safe environment where girl gamers can chat
freely so harassment on any level will not be tolerated.
What this site is not:
1) A pr0n site
2) A male bashing site
What it is:
1) A place for females & males to express their opinions on how female
World of Warcraft players are treated.
2) A move towards equality in all of Warcraft. Its one thing to deny someone
because they are a bad player or a bad person. Its another to deny them
simply because of their gender
3) A place that I hope can change some of the sterotypes associated with
female gamers.
Who am I:
SugarChick - a Mug'thol Horde player that enjoys playing World of Warcraft.
I am a wife, a mother & a gamer of over 10 years. I've been playing
games online since 2001 when I picked up my first FPS(First Person Shooter).
What drew me to online gaming was a compilation of things - the real time/real
person competition, that although I was sitting at home by myself I was
surrounded by friends, and how each time I got on the experience would
change.
This isn't the first time I've stepped up and said 'hey lets do something
to change things'. While playing that first game online myself and girl
gamer friends of mine started to encounter sterotypes and harassment like
I had never experenced before - online or offline. From being called names,
followed around, harassed on forums, meeting the occasional pervert I
finally put my foot down and said something needs to be done. So I created
a site similar to this and went from there, it ran its course until the
games fizzled out and at the end I was happy and proud to look back and
see how other peoples views & attitudes towards those female gamers
changed.
I never thought the issue would disappear of discrimation & stereotypes
against female gamers but I myself have had such low key experiences in
my World of Warcraft experience that I thought it would never be a problem.
After seeing articles about guilds excluding female gamers & seeing
multiple posts & complaints on the issue I feel its my time to once
again step up and set the record straight.
Although I am all for disallowing people into guilds due to their gear,
inability to play, lack of skills...I could never see justifying excluding
someone simply because of their gender. Its no different then excluding
someone because of their race, religion or sexual preferance.
Whether 1 person visits or none I hope that at least one persons view
of female gamers, specifically World of Warcraft players changes to a
positive and inviting one.
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