Get some popcorn and/or a cup of tea. This is some good late night reading. More »
When is a game being sexist? When is a game not being sexist? They’re tricky topics to wade through with words. More »
The latest Call of Duty‘s out today and there’s going to be lots of trash talk and cuss words among the many fans who’ll be cutting class, calling in sick and otherwise shirking their duties to play the latest entry in Activision’s best -selling FPS series. But, as Jenny Haniver can attest, there’s a special kind of trash talk reserved for female players. It’s filled with casual sexism, vulgar slurs and an angry dismissiveness of any skills a woman playing an online game might show. More »
It’s Friday night and I’m gathering supplies for Girls Night over at my friend’s house. Fashion magazines? Check. Nail polish? Check. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PlayStation 3? Check. As I chuck the box into my Tinker Bell shoulder bag, somewhere, a feminism fairy dies. More »
Despite women’s documented surge in gaming, “somehow, gamer girls retain their aura of mystery,” writes Dairuka Sutain. “Gamer girls are not special anymore. Take them off the pedestal.” More »
Kotakuite Baltech sent in this snap of a sticker he found hanging about on a pole in Austria. If you were ever curious about which side of the fence those 8-bit invaders were on on the subject of sexism, now you know. I didn’t even know those little guys had a gender. Although when you shoot them all down, more just show up so they must be coming from somewhere.
For those of you that would like to make the pilgrimage to see what’s sure to be the hottest thing since the Virgin Mary appeared on a taco shell, Baltech sends along the location of this wonder which is in the city of Klagenfurt at the intersection of Perhartgasse and Dr. Hermann Gasse. And you better hurry because it looks like someone’s already trying to scratch it off.
