This right here ^. Though I would go further to argue that women were predominantly portrayed in advertising as not being able to understand how to use technolo

This right here ^. Though I would go further to argue that women were predominantly portrayed in advertising as not being able to understand how to use technology to begin with. I think it goes beyond video gaming but rather addresses the toxic gender stereotyping in marketing. As a result, you have a generation of women being told what things are meant for boys despite the decades of prior women involved in computer science. Not to mention years of hostility towards women being in the workforce at all.