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KSP players: Male or Female


Commander Jebidiah

are you male or female?  

96 members have voted

  1. 1. are you male or female?

    • Rather not say
      1
    • Male
      86
    • Female
      4
    • Both
      2
    • Other please post
      3


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You know this is the 2nd time ive seen females on this forum

(Im a guy)

Just the second time? #interestingiftrue

Also: "Females?" We're women. Sure, whatever, "it's technically correct" or whatever, I don't care. It's annoying to be called "females," it makes it sound like you're talking about livestock.

Statistically, the odds are for male, as there are generally a lot more male gamers. though to be fair, KSP seems like one of those games that would draw a higher-than-average percentage of females.

Women are actually a pretty significant chunk of the gaming population. According to that article, women make up a total of 48% of all gamers, and there are substantially more adult women who game than teenage boys.

As for this game, I'd love to think that a large percentage of people who play it are not men, but it still focuses on STEM fields and "nerdy" things, subjects which our society still steers women away from. Sure, there are plenty of women who do play it, but there are probably substantially more women who play puzzle games or shooters than complex, stereotypically-nerdy games like KSP. You can see it in the lack of anything but male kerbals in the stock game - this is a game made by men for men. (And yes, they've said they'll put in kerbal women eventually, but that's clearly coming as an afterthought in response to the women who do play the game, so I wouldn't say it detracts from that statement.)

Also, again with the "females." Can we please all knock that off?

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Props to you for including the alternate options in the poll. I'm a lady, of course, but yeah.

Sorry, I got a strong Little Britain flashback from that! :D

Am I the only one who would like to know if those voting both or other are just jokers? And why someone would rather not say in an anonymous poll?

Edited by KerbMav
Got rid of politics
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The same question was asked on the Facebook KSP group to, and after looking around, there aren't a lot of females / women playing the game. How do I know that... Well KSP is a game with quite a learning curve. If you want the full KSP experience you need to go onto the internet and ask for information regarding phase angles, rendezvous and docking. If you have no prior knowledge of orbital mechanics you do need help to get complex mission profiles done.

And when looking through the forums and fb groups. There aren't a whole lot of women.

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