1. Constantly being referred to as a "girl gamer".
2. Going to buy a game IRL only to be asked, "Is this for your boyfriend?" at the till.
3. The assumption that, being female, you belong to the "casual gamer" market and all you play is Candy Crush and Cooking Mama.
4. The assumption that you’re somehow less of a "gamer" if you play Candy Crush and Cooking Mama.
Welcome to 2014, where games are for everyone. You and I might play Alien: Isolation and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, but that doesn't mean everyone allowed to like games has to.
5. The injustice of being held to very different standards than your male peers.
6. Going home for Christmas and being given perfume and pyjamas by family members, when all you really wanted was Far Cry 4.
7. Wanting to livestream a Let’s Play for fun, but knowing that 90% of comments will be along the lines of “Hurrr, bewbs!”
But are any of those guys brave enough to challenge you on multiplayer and risk humiliation? Hell no.
8. Actually doing a Let’s Play video for fun, only to be called an "attention whore" for your troubles.
9. The mixture of confusion and mild guilt that comes along with being attracted to Chris Redfield/Tifa Lockhart/your Dragon Age Inquisitor/any video game character voiced by Troy Baker.
10. The rather silly assumption that we’re somehow jealous of other girls who play games.
11. Swamp hands. And having to pass a controller to someone, anyone, after sweating all over it.
12. Public online party chat. Just in general.
13. Encountering female non-playable characters in RPGs wearing dental floss for armour.
14. Keeping your composure when you utterly destroy that one guy making sexist remarks in an online Deathmatch.
15. Being the only female who plays games in your office/social circle and automatically having to become a spokesperson for your gender.
16. Being told what you should and should not be or look like or act like by others online.
17. Continuing to save the world on a daily basis while the games community grows and evolves.
