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The Lack Of Women Presenters At The PS4 Event Is Bigger Than Sony
The consensus on last week’s post about the lack of women presenters at Sony’s PS4 event was rather uniform: there were no women at the PlayStation 4 reveal, because obviously there aren’t women in high positions and the project leads just happen to be male.
Why Were There No Women Presenters At The PlayStation 4 Event?
Today we got a healthy dose of next-gen information, delivered to us by a bevy of excited, breathless developers and publishers. Here’s the thing: not a single one of the presenters at the PlayStation 4 event were women, and people noticed.
Attractive, Female, And They Play Games Live On The Internet
Back when Kotaku wrote about a troll that targeted women, there was one critical word that kept popping up in responses: camwhore.
Anita Sarkeesian’s First ‘Tropes Vs. Women In Games’ Video May Come Out Next Month, But Her Tumblr’s Live Now
Anitia Sarkeesian, the controversial feminist critic whose plans to produce a crowdfunded video series about female tropes in video games led to someone creating a video game all about punching her in the face, is almost ready to show her work.
EA Exec Says Industry Needs More Women But Blaming Sexism Is A Cop Out
Gabrielle Toledano, Electronic Arts’ chief talent officer, says sexism isn’t what keeps women out of the games industry. “The video game industry is being painted as more sexist than other male-dominated workforces,” she writes in a guest editorial on Forbes.com, “but the issue isn’t just in video games. And it’s not what’s holding us back.”
This Jerk And His Supporters Find Joy In Harassing Women Gamers
New year, new cretins who hate women who dare to like video games. Here are a couple of videos by YouTube user ShrineNI where he tells people how to go about finding and harassing women gamers, particularly those who stream on services like TwitchTV and play World of Warcraft.His main gripe seems to be that they are attractive and are ‘using’ that against men who are too stupid to resist falling for them and then donating to them (his reasoning, not mine).
Feminist Game Critic On Her Attackers: They Cast Me In The Villian’s Role
The woman behind Feminist Frequency hasn’t been shy about sharing stories of the harassment she’s gotten while trying to create Tropes vs Women in Video Games. Anita Sarkeesian’s goal of examining how women get portrayed in video games won her lots of enemies but, according to her, they thought of themselves as heroes.
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