Discrimination Toward Girl Gamers

As the gaming industry continues to grow, issues like the discrimination of girl gamers become more exposed. This issue shouldn’t be looked light upon and I believe that some sort of action should be taken place. Although, I’ve been playing video games for what seems to be like my whole life and I hardly see or experience such discrimination happen toward girls. I understand that it is out there and it is a big issue but I have seen another side of the gaming industry. I used to play a few mmo games (massively multiplayer online games) but more recently I’ve been playing strictly console games. From what I’ve experienced when playing mmo games is that there are a lot of girl gamers then one would think, and I actually played along with more females then males. These types of games aren’t only targeted towards male gamers because they have female characters along with many other things that interest both sex. There are a lot of different genres of games and some are more targeted towards males, some more targeted towards females and some who target both. 
There is no such thing as a “real game” and there’s no rule or law that says that only a certain gender can play a particular game. The people who determine such things are strictly speaking out of their own opinions. I believe that the people who are discriminating girl gamers and harassing them are just immature young male teenagers and men who has no respect towards women and feel safe to say whatever they want behind a computer screen. This is an issue that revolves around the internet and not just the gaming industry. The only true way to deal with such behavior is to simply stay away from it. The only weapon they have is their computer and there are many ways for you to filter out such hatred. Would you let someone online effect you in a negative way? Someone that is promoting hatred? You do not want to associate yourself with such kind. There are still positive enforcing gaming communities that don’t tolerate such behaviors and promote equality that you should associate yourself with instead of giving these “trolls” the time of day.