WHAT'S WRONG WITH WOMEN BEING GAMERS?!

I, TheGirlThatGetsPissedOff, am a gamer. I love video games, I get excited when i walk into a shop and hold a brand new game in my hands. Hell, I even get excited unwrapping the packaging! Video games are a life line fore me. Ever since I can't remember, game have been in my life. I don't remember much of my childhood but I do remember the first game I ever played. (Tomb Raider III on the Play Station)

So, the other day I was talking to a random woman ad she asked me:

"So 'insert name', what do you do in your spare time?"

"I play video games"

And it all went down hill from there! The look on her face! It said it all. She isn't the first mind, many people have given that look whenever the topic has come up. So here's the question, what's wrong with women being gamers? 

It pisses me off! Why can't we (women) be gamers? I get a lot of people moan saying 'well that's not very feminine' well news flash, I'TS THE 21ST CENTURY! I am feminine! I love shoes and bags, isn't that what most women like? So why can't I like games? 

My friends say it's because I don't look like a gamer but that's just stupid! What do gamers look like? We're not all over weight and sloppy! I think, really, it's other women that put us (women gamers) to shame! It's the few that judge women for liking 'boyish' things. Most don't care but for the ones that don't like women playing video games, I got a few names for you! Lara Croft, Zelda, Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield... Do I really need to say any more? Oh I forgot, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE!!!!