Comment Re:Before you start complaining... (Score 1) 548
In fact, they'd be happy if there were more among them.
My experience as a female Magic player in high school is, while anecdotal, not entirely supportive of this. It wasn't that I didn't feel like I belonged in the group, only that my gender was not relevant, a non-issue. It was simply ignored. Often I was the only female there, and was never treated as anything other than just another opponent in game. Which, I'll admit, was nice, because being dismissed as a girl in other activities is/was common and annoying. No one ever told me I played like a girl, for example (it probably helped that I was as good as they were). But there was a definite lack of ability to interact with the males there on any level other than player-vs-player. Maybe they would have been happier with more girls there, but they certainly didn't show it.
Basically, I found the Magic geeks to be far more egalitarian than any other group in high school.