I'm 40, I'm playing videogames since very little, my first console was my mom's Atari, then my NES. I started playing mmos in particular since Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest 1. I ended playing WoW when SOE bit us in the ass with SW Galaxies deleting the original characters (and yes I'm still salty about losing my lethan twi'lek jedi) and after Lich King I parted to better grasslands. I ended up on Guild Wars 1 and I was very hardcore in it. Then GW2... but I played Lineage, Aion, Tera.
Also I played arround that time Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online and DC Universe Online and I still do from time to time when there is something new.

My current mmo loves are FFXIV (I'm been playing since 2.0), TESO (I played the beta, the game was a disaster back then but when they updated with Tamriel Unlimited, I went all in) and, not exactly a mmo but like-a... Warframe.

I'm a mother and all my free time is playing videogames

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To answer the question, we probably didn't have the chance as we know woman were forced into kitchen before now. Now we have more avenues for creative expression.
Obviously nothing wrong with men doing it, we just dominate the area because it attracts us more then men

I don't want to start a back and forth, but I see this tendency primarily as something produced by society and not just in the last few decades, but for thousands of years. As you rightly say, in the past women had little opportunity to express themselves in any field of interest. But creative design or the desire to build/create things is equally strong in both genders, in my opinion. After all, why would men in the Bronze Age, for example, have produced and carried elaborately decorated swords if they hadn't been concerned also with the aesthetics of the weapons? They could have just been functional.
If girls in particular like to set up doll houses today, it is primarily because they are influenced by the media and the toy industry, because they are their "target". People are so manipulated by the media these days that they don't even notice it anymore, and then women think it's "natural" for them to rather furnish houses than men.

Perhaps, but my son and daughter-in-law raised their kids with the desire to not enforce these stereotypes. Their children largely fit the stereotypes anyway. The evidence it is "forced by society" is largely missing.

This thread (a great thread BTW) is teetering on being derailed. I think you guys should consider stopping while you are ahead.

True, I forgot I started this to get an answer to the base question, not argue politics. I will not respond further.

A general note: Thank you for all the women that replied! It was interesting to read.