#1ReasonWhy: Thoughts and Link Round-Up
An interesting conversation thread happened on Twitter last week. Someone who works at Kickstarter as the specialist for games projects asked why there are so few women working in the games industry. It’s a huge question, one that seemed like…
Tropes vs. Women on the Internet: Having Opinions
One of the big pieces of news over the past few weeks has been the organized harassment campaign (trigger warning) against Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency. What she did wrong, according to the harassers, was to dare to put up a Kickstarter…
C*nt (the Game): Gynophobia and Misogyny [NSFW]
Warning: This post contains graphic descriptions of female and male genitalia, descriptions of abstracted, in-game violence against female bodies and women, and some of the linked content and possibly some words in this post are not safe for work.
Vexation
After I started my new job at ArenaNet a few months ago, I was going to respond immediately to the bigoted, ignorant, and narrow-minded views of several people in various gaming communities. Since then I’ve been busy at work and…
I Reject the ‘Big Boys’
One of the interesting things about the whole set of issues associated with women gamers is that women, unsurprisingly, have different views on these matters — if they choose to consider any of this as at all important. Some of…
