sexism

#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 a borderline troll question, given this person’s apparent disingenuous and…

Dec 3, 2012

Business and Industry, Sex and Gender, Social Issues, Social Media

#1reasonmentors, #1reasontobe, #1reasonwhy, games industry, misogyny, sexism
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 project to raise funds to create a series of web…

Jun 17, 2012

Culture, Film, Sex and Gender, Social Issues

critique, feminist frequency, harassment, misogyny, sexism, sexual harassment
Parkour and Gender

I’m still playing Mirror’s Edge. Free time has not been so readily available. Another reason for my slow progress is that I’m masochistically attempting to complete the game without firing a weapon. I also really suck at platformers, and a first-person platformer is even more difficult for me. Mirror’s Edge…

Dec 8, 2008

Culture, Sex and Gender

feminism, parkour, sex and gender, sexism
“STFU and GTFO”

Priceless quote from a commenter on a recent Joystiq post about Gaymer.org (emphasis mine): I’m sick of hearing about gay gamers and female gamers. When 90% of their audience is straight men, why would any developer care about any of you? I know that trying to segregate yourselves is a…

May 8, 2007

Annoyances, Culture, Sex and Gender, Social Issues

gaygamer.org, homophobia, joystiq, misogyny, privilege, sexism
The Debate About Gender in Oblivion

There was a heated debate last week in the gaming blogosphere regarding the gender inclusiveness of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Adam LaMosca had made a blog post about Oblivion, and how he was impressed by the game’s gender equality. I emailed him a link to Guilded Lily’s post regarding…

Apr 9, 2006

Sex and Gender, Social Issues

sexism, the elder scrolls iv: oblivion

sexism

#1ReasonWhy: Thoughts and Link Round-Up

Tropes vs. Women on the Internet: Having Opinions

Parkour and Gender

“STFU and GTFO”

The Debate About Gender in Oblivion