I was quite amused yesterday, when buying a video game. I went in, found what I was looking for (the new Wolverine game, BTW) and went to the counter. The clerk (a teenage boy) rang up the purchase and told me the amount. I handed him the cash and waited. While he was handing me back my change, I believe his words were: “Hope your husband or son enjoys the game.” As nicely as I possibly could, I responded: “It’s for me.” At this point, his jaw nearly landed on the floor. The clerk then, probably assuming since I’m a delicate female, warned me that he had heard the game was the goriest he’d seen. My response? “Awesome.” To this, of course, he turned three shades of red.

Yes, girls play video games. Violent, gory ones in fact. While I do love my Zelda, Spryo and such – I loved BloodRayne II just as much. Talk about gory violence.

This reminds me of the times when I still frequented comic book stores. There’s too much other stuff going on for me to go anymore (so I am, sadly, about two years behind) but when I did have the time to go, I did. Talk about feeling akward. Geez. It was like I was an alien life form who had landed on another planet. I always used to ask my husand if I had sprouted a third eye and wasn’t aware of it. There was one time, when my husband was with me, where we walked up to the counter and the clerk started talking to him. Hello? I’m the buyer; not him. Then there was another time the clerk started making comments about what I was buying (not bad ones, just offhand storyline stuff) and I started firing stuff back. He seemed surprised and started talking to me; then seemed even more surprised that I could keep up.

Yeah, chicks read comic books and actually know their shit too.

Fancy this – they read comic books, play violent video games and love their action movies – you know, all the things that are labeled “guy” stuff. Sorry, guys, it’s not all your stuff – never really was either. Ya’ll just liked to think it was. I know that’s mind bending and all but we geeky girls are out there. Don’t be scared. I assure you, we don’t bite.

Unless you want us to.

BTW, did see X-Men Origins: Wolverine on Friday morning. Aside from the few issues I had (most of which are relatively minor, the major ones I can overlook, and are all comic book related) I liked the movie.