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Don’t Be Jerks To Strangers Online. You Never Know What That Girl Can Do.

Lots of women play video games. Lots of them are pretty good at it. All of them deal with jerks who think they can’t play just because they’re girls.

Alisha Huber

Aug 29, 2014

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