There are many reason I don't play WoW:

It costs money, apparently people will hack you for gear (true story, ask my girlfriend), my one experience with gaming in the late nineties in an email Buffy RPG turned me off (look, I realize that's like comparing apples and meatloaf), I consider myself to be higher on the geek hierarchy (where things link at the bottom totally applies to the entire column), but today I realized there was one other reason:

I don't want to be an example of a lousy girl player--because I'm not good now, obviously, and I'll never invest enough time to be good, that's for damn sure, and if I can't be excellent, be a paragon, be a--a--a credit to my gender, then I don't want to detract from the reputations of women who play well and care passionately about the game.

Ugh, but that's a nasty bit of social conditioning, the nastier for the fact that I want to think I'm overreacting and can't be sure that I am.