All you had to do was go back a few pages into THIS thread to find it. But, clearly, you were too lazy to do even that.
Yup, totally admit to being lazy while laughing at this dumpster fire of thread tagged "all abandon hope, crazy, debate, eternal bond, sjw crap, ye who enter" at 1AM. Trying to disparage me for that is just... sad. But the crazy amount of hostility, and what has to be the most effort towards uncharitable interpretation I have seen in along time.On top of all the ridiculous false claims of SEXISM, has annoyed me enough to make a real reply and dig into the thread more.

If you're so confident that it's not close towards a 50/50 split, then pull up some actual statistics not 14 years old. The burden of proof lies on you, not me.
OK how about something published April 19, 2018 with a key takeaway. "Men are more than three times as likely to make gaming purchases than women."

To all the people taking offense at the terminology "lower bar of entry" you either don't understand the meaning or are just trying to find something to be outraged about. Gaming has historically been a niche hobby dominated by young men, requiring lots of specialized and expensive equipment. Now that gaming is becoming more mainstream with almost everyone having the devices needed to run games, the bars of entry have been lowered, resulting in more gamers of ALL types, including women and different age groups not previously part of the niche.This is the same old story from every new media type, just like film and tv was niche among their respective nerds, but now is almost universal.

All these anecdotes from women who have been gamers from the beginning, no one is attacking you or your identity? This data and history doesn't mean there was never girl gamers or older gamers, only that they were less common, its not an insult to be a minority of a market demographic..... You could maybe argue sexism on gender norms of the times pushing for the disparity, but that doesn't make anyone who acknowledges this data or history a sexist.

To all the people with comments along the lines of "implication from your initial post that female players in the game are there to be "selected" by male players for relationships. You speak like they are targets, not fellow players." Where is OP advocating for this behavior or saying its ok? OP is just making an observation, which is confirmed by many other posts in this thread about the reality of tons o thirsty dudes targeting girls regardless if they are "real" or "faux". and no faux girl is not transphobic, its talking about G.I.R.L. its a meme for a reason.

To OP, just abandon ship, never engage these type of people, especially when worked into a feeding frenzy. and maybe work on your chronic foot in mouth lol.