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Originally Posted by johnny

It is far more rare to find a guy surprised about a gamer being female these days, because gaming is way more mainstream.

I have to disagree with you there. In my country it's still almost taboo under girls to play games. "Girls don't play games. They go shopping." Which is ridiculous, but it's really happening. So far I've only known 3 other girls in my life that play games. That isn't exactly much, and they're not as active in gameplaying as me, except for one of those three.
It really depends where you live, because in my country... gaming is a 'nono' when you're a girl. And not only guys think that, the girls think the same which doesn't exactly encourages you to play.