Alien invasion?

This morning, well by the time we went out it was actually afternoon, we popped along to the carboot. My sister picked up a couple of Harry Potter things but that was it as we'd arrived to late really. But the main reason we went out was to check out the sci-fi exhibition at Portsmouth's musuem. It was called "Alien Invasion" and had some pretty cool props! A red darlek, predator head, battlestar galatica costumes, a huge Alien, Mars Attacks aliens and a load of star wars stuff including a yoda, ewok, stormtrooper and darth Vader costume. By complete accident, I was wearing my Star Wars top. I walked past a huge fat bloke, with glasses, also wearing a star wars t-shirt. All that ran through my mind was "Please don't talk to me I don't want to be your special friend!". He didn't, of course but I had funny memories of the random bloke in a Jedi cape talking to Holly at MCM. Good times.

We looked around the rest of the museum too. They had a Sherlock Holmes exhibit and a history of Portsmouth and Southsea bit (which has been there forever). They also had some abstract art, most of it was utter balls as you'd expect. Still it made a change. After I got home the rest of the day has been spent grinding on Dragon Age, and no, not the fun kind of grinding, the kind which slowly drains away your soul...

Yesterday I got thinking, after my PSN being mobbed with people asking me if I'm a girl (then trying to add me) I wondered why does it matter if I'm a girl? I know the obvious answer is girl gamers, there's a lack of them and I suppose to most hardcore gamers they must be seen as some sort of Holy grail for men (as Johnboyy so graciously put it!) as sexual partners. Be that as it may I am targeting female gamers themselves here as I despise those sites where being a girl who games is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. See sites such as "You got beat by a girl". I saying I don't like at all because it suggests girls should automatically be worse at gaming than men. Which is not true, obviously. Or other sites such as "Fragdolls" which is just a group of attractive female gamers. Great? So even when we're gaming we're still seen as *just* sex objects. Plus let's admit it, what girl gamer really looks like that? Seriously? I'm not saying we're unattractive but we're not super models either.

I'm not going to go off on a massive feminist rant but is it too much to just been seen as equal? If we can't even achieve this in the gaming world then God knows how we'll ever get equal pay...

Currently listening to: Will Young-If love equals nothing
"Am I looking for the right thing in the wrong place? Tell me why does my heart rule my head? I think it likes to be a fool, it likes to be mis-lead. If love equals nothing but sadness and pain, why do I need it time and time again? When it builds me up high then drops me to the floor, beating me, cheating me, I still come back for more."