thenthwave: MYTH: More girls aren’t gamers because they’re just not into gaming.FACT: More girls aren’t gamers because they often feel unwelcome by the gaming community. Thanks, NPR, for reminding folks that lack of female participation in the video game community isn’t due to brain differences or some shit, but is greatly attributed to—ummm, hello—Sexual harassment!  … Miranda Pakozdi, a regular competitive gamer, entered the Cross Assault video game tournament. During the six-day fighting competition, her team’s coach badgered her with questions about her boyfriend and her bra size, and trained the tournament’s Web camera on parts of her body. “Eventually,” says O’Leary, “she found this so difficult to deal with that she committed kind of virtual suicide and forfeited the tournament by walking straight into a competing player so she’d be killed off.”
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MYTH: More girls aren’t gamers because they’re just not into gaming.

FACT: More girls aren’t gamers because they often feel unwelcome by the gaming community.

Thanks, NPR, for reminding folks that lack of female participation in the video game community isn’t due to brain differences or some shit, but is greatly attributed to—ummm, hello—Sexual harassment! 

… Miranda Pakozdi, a regular competitive gamer, entered the Cross Assault video game tournament. During the six-day fighting competition, her team’s coach badgered her with questions about her boyfriend and her bra size, and trained the tournament’s Web camera on parts of her body. “Eventually,” says O’Leary, “she found this so difficult to deal with that she committed kind of virtual suicide and forfeited the tournament by walking straight into a competing player so she’d be killed off.”

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Our findings suggest that little has changed for women and minorities; they are portrayed differently and unequally. What has changed is how they are relegated to secondary status. We found that black women are largely ignored in computer gaming imagery with only one black female appearing as a character in any of the advertisements. This presents both favorable and unfavorable consequences for black women. On the one hand, black women are not reduced to sexual object for the entertainment of men. On the other hand, black women are ignored as sexual beings which reinforce the notion of ideal beauty as white. This leaves black women safe from being victimized as sex objects, though victimized by their exclusion from the world of computer games. This is not unique to computer game advertisements. In a study of TV advertisements in 1990, Coltrane and Messineo (2000) found similar results. They concluded that “a lack of such exploitive imagery for African American women could be considered positive, except for the fact that it is part of a larger pattern of excluding African American women from images of fantasy consumption and personal fulfillment (Coltrane and Messineo, 2000: 383).

Racism and sexism in the gaming world: Reinforcing or changing stereotypes in computer games? - B. Mitchell Peck, Paul R. Ketchum, and David G. Embrick (via isitscary)

BUT SOME DUDEBROS SAID BIOWARE IS TOTALLY EQUAL!!!

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