Yeah my wife doesn’t do this. Mogs and dress-up are not her cup of tea. She picks a look and sticks with it maybe changing it once or twice through the lifecycle of an expansion. About the same as me. Though we sometimes make an event of our mutual look updates.
What she loves is gathering. She stuck with profs in DF where I gave up. I’m trying to do my part in TWW though.
Ehh not really. If you’re referring to mogs, you still have to play the game to collect those, and that’s where it’ll lose all the non-gamer girlies. There’s tons and tons of fashion/dress up games out there that aren’t WoW.
Historically, it hasn’t seemed to matter.
WoW is profoundly popular with girls.
EQ was less so, but only because it was older.
You aren’t wrong Rynnava. In order to play that game of dress-up with WoW it requires a level of commitment that the general “likes to play dress-up” crowd isn’t going to be in for. You have to like something else about WoW to even have the drive to acquire the outfits.
EQ required a party to leave town though. That’s quite the barrier between a gatherer and their goals.
I didn’t start playing because I could dress up my avatar. I started playing because I could smash a zombie in the face with a mallet and not go to jail. And I’m a ‘traditionally’ raised girl.
Crazy.
Mine likes healing. Like… Loves it. Raids and BGs
Me too, but my family stopped buying me Barbies when they saw I’d rather beat them up and torture them than play house. That’s when I started to get Legos and hot wheels instead…
A “traditionally” raised girl in my view would be fine with toting (and shooting) a rifle on a hunt and flieting a fish after I caught it. 
Excellent skills!! I wish I was taught those things 
Dying skills these days but they are worth preserving. I am trying to pass down the things my father passed to me to my girls the best I can.
Of course I want to pass down my 1337 dps skills to them as well though.
I uhhh… never tortured my dolls. I just lined them up on display and never bothered with them. I was usually outside looking at plants, making potions, trying to find fairies, collecting nuts, shells, bird feathers. Etc. Then as soon as I could read I was identifying useful plants, birds, animal tracks in nature books. 
I do both.
My kinda lady.
I’ll sew you up some leather bracers. More stuff to disenchant!
I don’t think my wife is going to appreciate you flirting with me like that.
No worries. I’ll make her a cute pair of moccassins so she doesn’t feel left out.
You ever heard of the book Where the Crawdads Sing? It’s about a girl who lives a rather reclusive life and lives off the land. There’s a heavy emphasis on nature identification and appreciation. Your comment reminded me of that read.
Heh that is true. I was a incognito gamer for a while, mostly because I didn’t want my buddies to know I was into gaming, worked in law enforcement then, so one day one guy comes clean and that was it. Turns out we were all incognito gamers. I work with the same guys but now we are in the private sector and we play together when we can.
As for my wife, she tried, Diablo, WoW and she likes the fighting stuff until you get to the itemization and class talents, she gets bored and goes back to matching fruits. And not it’s not an IQ thing.
Marriage seems fine. It’s the trap of becoming a parent that I will avoid.
It’s tough. Any reasonable person wouldn’t lie to you and say that it’s all joy and rainbows.
But it was something I did feel the same way as you about at one time. I do think differently now.