The thing is, mixing video games with women presents all sorts of problems. For instance, when a lady asks "Are you good at video games?" you are left with a conundrum. Â The natural male instinct is to say "Yes, I'm awesome at <insert whatever the girl wants to know if you can do>." Â General male conditioning reasons that if other guys are good at something, the girl will be impressed if you're even better at it.
However, revealing yourself to be proficient at video games also implies a certain level of geekness. Â If you tell the lady that you excel at them, you could seriously hurt your chances with her, depending on what she thinks of games in general. Â So, what do you decide? Â Do you build yourself as an almighty deity of gaming prowess, or do you play it safe and pretend that you 'generally don't have time for those kinds of things?' Â Problematic indeed.
Even if you set this particular problem aside, mixing females with video games presents other difficulties. Â The most prominent one appears when one of the women wants to play the game with you. Â No offense to the fairer sex, but chances are good that she's painfully bad at video games. Â So, do you trounce her, do you beat her modestly, or do you try and let her win (which can be quite the task)?
This problem is compounded if there are other guys playing at the same time. Â For--of course--you can't just let *them* win. Â You have to dominate the field, even if one of the four cars in your Mario Cart game happens to be driven by a woman. Â So, a masculine battle of power ensues, and the poor girl becomes a casualty of war--or, more likely, just another obstacle in the race course. Â This will probably confuse, annoy, or frustrate her. Â
Life would be so much easier if all women would acknowledge that a man's ability to prove himself supremely capable of navigating a digital go-cart driven by anthropomorphic mushrooms is the modern equivalent of killing a wooly mammoth with one's own bare hands.