Can feminism subvert any of the following

As stated before, the argument implies that women can't enjoy games for their own reasons and is as one sided as feminists claiming it's a white male fantasy.

Like I said, women can enjoy games for their own reasons, those reason has nothing to do with men enjoying games for masculine reasons.

The same reason they read Isaac Asimov

Men read Isassc Asimov because they're curious about about space and science. Curiosity, that desire to see what's out there, beyond the horizon, and to go there, is a traditional masculine trait, the trait of an traditional explorer. When men read Isassc Asimov, you're expressing that pioneer/explorer masculine trait.

They play RPGs

Adventures. Wanting to go on adventures. That's a traditional masculine trait. When men play RPGs, they're expressing the traditional masculine trait of a traditional explorer.

social enjoyment

Social enjoyment, aka fun in a social context. BUT, why is it fun for men to do these things in video games? It's because when they're doing these things in video games, they're expressing their masculine, which allow them to experience something called fun. It is only fun because they're expressing their masculinity. In other word, it's only fun because they're trash talking, they're competing, they're strategizing, they're going on adventures, they're defending their virtual country, etc.

sports

Men enjoy video games for the same reason they enjoy sports. It allow them to express their masculinity. In sport case, the masculine traits they're expressing are: to compete, to strategize (e.g. Football Plays), trash talk (bragging), etc.

I can curse and trash talk in real life. What's the appeal of doing it in a game over going out and playing football with the guys or Fantasy Football and trashtalking as my team wins?

Men can play football in real life, but every year, they choose to buy Madden and play it. Why? Because it allow them to play as another man, a famous football player like Ponders. Also, while playing video game sports, they're expressing most of the same traits they do that they do when real life sports.

Again, gaming allows men to express their masculinity. For women it's different. But for men, it allows them to express their masculinity.

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