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Re:Texas Battlefield 3 launch LAN bans women from attending by JeremyBanks on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:56AM (#2802603)
Men are not a majority in the United States.

No, but men are a supermajority among gamers, or in the tech community. That's what he was referring to.

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Re:Texas Battlefield 3 launch LAN bans women from attending by sp332 on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:51AM (#2803077)
In FPS games, maybe. But overall, there are more adult women playing games than boys under 18, and women make up about 42% of all gamers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games#Demographics
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Re:Texas Battlefield 3 launch LAN bans women from attending by diolpah on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:01AM (#2802627)
Fair point. Parent post removed.
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