Says a lot that @Vt71fcAqt7 is describing a chosen segment with population analyses, while you're giving as bad-faith a response as I've seen on HN.
Population analyses don’t show that women don’t play video games.
They do show that for the subset he was talking about. Competitive online games are extremely male dominated.
Similarly, the puzzle-solving spot the difference type of games are exceedingly female dominated.
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Gaming is a female activity. Males should be off dying in wars and stuff, not playing video games. Females have a biological need to cooperate with each other for child rearing and gaming clans are a direct extension of this biological need.