I guess I just don't like resorting to scientific explanationswhen it comes to explaining differences between people. It's a very different topic, sure, but I feel like some ill-intentionned people could ( and have ) used science to pressure their peers into twisted thinkings. This may range from a mere "we do not like the same thing" to a widly more dangerous "you are inferior" because "science told us that".
Actually I don't 100% trust science to give answers on such a specific domain as the brain inner workings. Biologically, yes, sure. Psychologically though, that's why we have various theoretical sciences but no actual science ( that I know of ). Creating a purely neutral, unaltered, uninfluenced environment to be able to study a person is impossible ( and quite unethical ) - you'd have to literally isolate a baby from birth, and then even what he/she will be subjected to to survive may have an influence on him/her. Myth of the cavern after all. And that's not taking into account the genetic memory theory which may add another layer of discreet influence on a toddler's mind ( even if it is more generally accepted that genetic memory is more like instinct than experience ).
I do not have the ressources nor the vocabulary to be able to follow this topic in the depths it went to, so I have to admit when I'm bested =)
My ultimate point is only that obviously, segregating people based on a physiological OR cultural difference is plain wrong, and claiming they can't have shared center of interests and should catter to their own pre-programmed likings isn't even something that should be considered.
When I claimed this was all cultural rather than physiological, I meant that anyone, man, woman, transgender, black, white, old, young, have the right to like whatever they want with no intervention from the exterior world, but some are led, if not forced, to like something else because of the exterior world. Some are even shuned or shutdown because they refuse to conform themselves to what the "good" society dictates as the right way. Some may adapt, some may live a terrible life.
In regard with the OP, "where are the women?" in the world of videogames, well... Videogames weren't supposed to be a girl thing for many years. Things are starting to change, and women actually are pouring in that little world. And they can be found in many genre ; versus fighting, mmos, rts, fps... Even at high-level of competition. Doesn't that mean that nature never pre-disposed them against playing videogames ? Or are girls playing Counterstrike in tournaments "abnormal" ?
