A while back, a study revealed that 20% of UK women have dumped their partner over their gaming habit. Well, according to MTV's True Life TV series, that study might not be far off. The show featured two avid gamers who both admitted that they struggled to maintain romantic relationships and their gaming habits.

Game addiction is a topic that's been nearly done to death since the American Medical Association first considered adding the term to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) back in 2007. However, it seems there's still room for discussion from different perspectives.

This week, MTV's True Life TV series aired an episode titled "I'm addicted to videogames." The show featured one stereotypical gamer -- that is, a college-aged white male -- named Barry and an African-American female gamer named Charisse who both struggled to maintain romantic relationships and their gaming habits. (Personally, we think bad taste in music is more likely to affect a relationship than gaming habits, but that's just us.)

Feminist blog Jezebel points out that Charisse's story challenges conceptions about "gaming addicts" and gamers in general. For one thing, she plays a wide range of games from FarmVille to Halo as part of her "addiction." For another, says Jezebel, it debunks a gaming myth that all guys think gamer girlfriends are hot. Plus, "If girl gamers are invisible to the industry, black girl gamers might as well be unicorns, frolicking on a Lisa Frank folder somewhere."

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