Should females really be encouraged to "game"?

By saying that you sound like Gaming is a disease upon our culture? Gaming has been around for the past 25+ years but back then Gaming wasn't as widely accepted as it is now. It was considered a nerd thing and such but you fail to realize that even young girls were sitting alongside their brothers back in 1985 playing Super Mario Bros on the NES. Why are you stereotyping Females by saying that you think they lack the "intensive hand-eye coordination" to play the modern games of today. I know so many females who play Xbox 360 and PS3 (not just the games like on the Wii which most guys seem to clify as a "chick console") and not only the more casual games but the shooters and blood and guts games as well and on top of that all are reasonably good and i would go so far as to say are better than many males. To say that females should be discouraged from gaming is a very narrow-minded statement. Yes there are negative influences mainly ONLINE but that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone has to play online on Call of Duty to be considered a "Gamer". If you enjoy doing something than do it even if it bothers certain people like you.