The term “gamer girl” shouldn’t be the norm of how we say that a girl plays video games, they should just be a gamer. The second you feel the need to put a gender to a job or activity, it takes away the value of it. Why am I classified as a “gamer girl” and not just a regular gamer. My gender shouldn’t be incorporated into my pastime. If anything, if I really feel the need to point out the fact that I’m a girl, I’d rather say that I’m a female who likes to play video games, because that is taking away the focus of the fact that I’m a girl, and putting more emphasis on the fact that I enjoy to play video games. When I talk to people, I don’t go up to them and say “hey guys I’m a girl gamer”, that would be ridiculous, because obviously I’m a girl, and that shouldn’t matter. I Now I know that I’m sure a lot of people would argue and say “well hey, what about firemen and policemen,” and to you I say, why not call them how they are, firefighters and police officers, more gender neutral terms so that no one is discriminated against. To be clear with this, I’m not really angry that this term has become the norm, because it’s just how everything else is in our world, gender biased, I’m sad at the lack of people standing up for how it should be. I don’t like calling myself a gamer girl or a girl gamer, and I don’t like being called it either, because I’m neither of those things. What I am simply, is a gamer, and that’s the only thing gamers should be called.