I've been reading X-Men comics for 19 years and started playing D&D in 1986. While there weren't many girls, there were always some of us, and I lived in a tiny little conservative rural town in Australia with no cinema or bookshop - we had to make our own fun, I suppose! But there was no shortage of Dragonlance fanfic in notebooks... When I got to university in 1994, there were geek girls everywhere, running most of the fan clubs with the exception of Doctor Who.