Opinion on Girl Gamers

[Dutchtica*]

1) Are you male or female?

Man man man man manly man man man

2) How often do you play video games?

Urrrrrrrrrrrday

2-2) What genre of games do you prefer to play?

...I play nearly everything but FPS games.

2-3) Within this time, how much of this is spent on online games? (if none, skip to 5)

Do you HAVE to play it, or CAN play it online?

3) Within online games, do you prefer to choose a character based on your gender, or the opposite gender, and why? (if you only play as male, skip to question 4)

Either / or, but mostly my own

3-2) When playing as a female, do you use your characters gender to try to get freebies from other players?

No?

4) When playing online games, do you treat female characters differently to male characters? If so, then why? (anywhere from giving them freebies to killing them for playing a 'guys game'. This includes being kinder to new players)

No...

4-2) What is your general response to females in games that try to use their gender or sexuality for items/equipment/money?

Shit.

5) What is your general thought when hearing the term 'Girl Gamer' or 'Gamer Girl'?

Girl Gamer sounds more like a gamer who happens to be a girl, a gamer girl sounds like a girl who acts like a gamer in order to reach out to a niche to achieve appeal.

6) How many female gamers do you know? (if 0, skip to question 7)

... Personally... or?

6-2) Of the female gamers you know, including yourself if you are a girl, what majority are casual gamers? (social games, iphone games, etc)

Okay so skipping.

7) Do you think that casual gamers are real gamers, or not?

Not.. really but... I don't look down on them. Okay, so I think a gamer prefers to play games over other forms of media to entertain them, just like how some people prefer to watch movies, or some people prefer to watch sports,
a casual gamer is just that, someone who plays a game very now and then, but not all the time?

8) Do you think there should be a market of games designed for girls only, or should it continue to be a unisex genre?

Aren't there already? (Sorry white male privilge showing I think.) I mean few boys would pick up Sheila's Pony training Camp DS?

9) Within games, what is your opinion on the sexualization of female characters? (from skimpy outfits to constant flirting with males (e.g. Mass Effect))

Oh I made a post about this in another thread just now.
It depends on the character of the female in question. I know it's more prominent in games, (and thus, unfortunately, more present) it's like super macho men wearing wifebeater vests and shades and being a horrible shade of orange like the Jersey Shore people, yeah it paints a negative portrait of the gender said person is from, but it doesn't mean all the gender is like that.
A ... A good game shows you more than one variety. Just like how a good movie shows you the same.

What I think is that if a character (female or male) is supposed to be sexy, or horrible, or horrible because of they way the promiscuously act towards others, this shouldn't be a problem, but it is a problem when a game is only known for this.

I really hope this 1:30 am drunk argument makes decent sense.

9-2) Using the above as an example, what do you think could be done to fix this?

...
Easy.
Write everybody as characters and not as bodies.
Good example:
This lady from that 90's Superman series: The Adventures of Lois and Clark,

she was their colleague and a vixen, and kept trying to hit on Clark, but it wasn't horribly over the top, or filthy, or disgusting, or demeaning towards her.

10) If you have anything else to add, please do so here as it will help the research data.

I know I may seem breezy about the subject, but I may or MAY NOT BE a weird form of enlightened.

If my breeziness about inequality offends anyone, keep in mind: I'm trying to view everything objectively, it's probably BECAUSE I'm not trying to make an issue out of anything that I seem to take things too trivially.

That is all the questions I have for now, so I would like to thank anyone who partakes in this, as you will be helping me get 1 step closer to reaching my dream job of a Game Designer. Hopefully by the end of this, a lot more people will understand that females make awesome games as well, and soon shall have a gaming world where no one is treated differently because of their genitalia.

Thank you all :)

EDIT: Added in a question 2.3 and swapped it around with 2.2. When answering, please include the full questions above it.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU SWAPPED THEM AROUND MY ENTIRE POST IS RUINED NOOOOOOOOOOOOO