Originally Posted by MindlessAutomata
Originally Posted by Lacrymas

There is no such data, get over yourselves. Male monkeys spending more time with wheeled toys is hardly empirical evidence for *why* women "tend" to play certain genres.


You can make jokes and deny psychological science all you want.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...ecific-toy-preferences-learned-or-innate

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Thus, work stemming from developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and endocrinology, using both non-clinical and clinical populations, and a wide assortment of dependent measures (e.g., eye gaze, digit ratio), points to an unassailable conclusion: the sex-specificity of toy preferences is shaped by sex-specific biological forces. This does not mean that parents do not reinforce these biological realities via various forms of socialization. However, it does mean that to the extent that nurture matters, it typically takes place within boundaries set by nature

Oh and speaking of boundaries of nature. Gender-specific variations are usually smaller than variations within a gender based on genetic variation. Or in other words, differences between males and females are more often based on individually than on gender.

Though I have the feeling that we are getting far to much off topic. I don't think that me playing with puppets (GI Joe, HE-Man, etc) influenced my love for good CRPGs. ;-)