The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too

This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d expect to this “revelation.”

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    I don’t understand why they’re surprised. Gaming has been mainstream for many many years now and women are half the population.

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      first they took our jerbs, then they took our 'obbies, what’s next, are they going to demand equal pay as well??!???!?!?!?11

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        jerbs
        'obbies

        I admire your effort to seamlessly characterise misogyny on both sides of the Atlantic!

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      Some of them have a sliver of an excuse, as from my childhood until I was at least in my late 20s, gaming was the realm of kids and geeks with no social life (according to populate opinion). And some people have trouble changing their understanding of the world after a certain point in their lives.

      They probably also have a lot of other issues as that kind of mindset can affect a lot of other things, but that is the way some people are.