Personally I feel the reason why women playing video games isn't believed is because for people like me I used to never use a mic or the female game model because I didn't want to be harassed. This means that plenty of women are silent players or play with different character models. Sometimes I still play male models if I find the female models too sexist. I mean I've got no interest in my characters bits and pieces hanging out. The mics don't really help the age issue as they do make the two groups sound similar. It's just annoying that when I tell people I'm in my twenties they first deny it and assume I'm lying rather than I'm just female. He important this is that you realized there are women playing. As recently as less than a month ago some people joined a party I was in and after asking my age, refused to believe it, and then treated me like it was some sort of genetic mutation that I was a female. It's the sad truth of gaming when you're female. But sometimes I join groups and they don't even bat an eye about my gender and I play and they treat me the same as everyone else. Things are changing but because some people don't there's still challenges for girl gamers.