Our opinion is as valid as yours and whilst we may not agree (which we wouldnt because you are involved with the brand) our opinion is just that, an opinion! Readers will make up their own minds.

Surprising post considered Bingo Night In is the only one you have ever commented on. Is this the only site you have played at? It might be why you have such low expectations of the online bingo game.

I found your entry interesting thus I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

It was good to get your comment about Bloke Bingo and was interesting to read another take about bingo for men players.

We wish you good luck with Bloke Bingo and it was also interesting to hear that you have had the same amount of women bingo players signing up as men.

Admin – Bingo Babble

If I may address some of your questions/concerns, hopefully we can very much come to live in peace.

Firstly I would say that Bloke Bingo wasn’t set up to segregate the market, it was set up because I have worked long and hard to convince the bingo networks that a site such as mine is needed in a market which is pretty much totally focussed on its female players.

I am a bit astounded at the fact you could possibly think my site is sexist? Personally I have come across sites such as Bingo Chicks, Bingo Wags, Ann Summers Bingo, Bingo4Her, Bingo Chicks and very much so on… All totally aimed at women but really haven’t made me think that “they are sexist” just that, “boy, I wish I had somewhere I could play that was aimed at ME”.

We could also start applying this concept across the board and I don’t think it’s ever been said that magazines (either online or offline) focussed entirely on women or men are thought of as sexist? They just provide entertainment for whatever niche market of that sex they have gone for.

You may think Bloke Bingo is some huge corporate machine that is chewing away at an already saturated bingo market but it is most definitely not. Personally I have had to fight every step of the way to get this site up and running and even though we have wonderful support through the Better Bingo Network, it’s really been an uphill struggle because everyone is completely focused on bingo sites for women and everything else is pointless. Hopefully I can beg to differ.

I do think that your vision of “blokes” sat in the pub chatting to their mates about bingo is slightly old fashioned. Blokes are fixed with this stigma but I think you will find that not all of us men go down to the pub every night with our mates and drink until we can’t stand up. None of the men I know do that anyway!

I will just say also that in our first day, nearly 25% of our signups were female. It’s an interesting statistic really as that’s the exact same as male signup rates on the more “girl” orientated bingo sites. There really is nothing stopping girls signing up to Bloke Bingo, and I am sure a lot will because they want what we offer, prizes and competitions that are not aimed at girly girls.

I sincerely hope I have managed to make you think twice of the motives of this site and that you may even agree that there are next to no sites that cater for men at all in the bingo world.

Hence Bloke Bingo exists and long may it continue.

On a side note, I created love2bingo.com 6 or so months ago which is very much a girly girl site, especially for my girlfriend Lisa, who wanted to promote her run for Cancer Research UK.

Thanks for listening anyway!

Mikey
BlokeBingo.com