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This Week in Feminism and Gaming: Tits, Chicks, and Casual Sexism
This week saw the publication of two sharp pieces on the casual sexism of much of video gaming culture. At Kotaku, LaToya Peterson responds to comments a Comic Con panel titled “East Meets West, Art Direction for a Worldwide Audience” in “The Tits Have It: Sexism, Character Design, and the Role of Women in Created Worlds.… Read the rest
What Video Gaming Does to Women
One of my all time favorite quotes about video gaming comes from Nikki Douglas, Grrl Gamer, in the classic From Barbie to Mortal Kombat:
… Read the restMaybe it’s a problem … that little girls DON’T like to play games that slaughter entire planets.
Arcade Machine as Object
I was digging around the ever excellent Arcade Flyer Archive earlier this week looking for some images of men and women playing video games together. While I found quite a few of what I was actually looking for, I’m most fascinated by an image I wasn’t looking for.… Read the rest
Who Loves Their Gamer
I was scrolling through the catalog over at J!NX the other day when I came across this shirt:
If you can’t quite see it, it is a lavender women’s t-shirt that reads “I love my gamer” with a red pixelated heart standing in for the word “love.”… Read the rest
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