> Rock! :) Just a quick comment on this, I don't think that the cars and guns > thing is what puts girls off some games, it is the ridiculous pigeon-holing > of women in those games that leaves the bad taste. I loved playing quake, > doom, wolfenstein, metal slug and a bunch of other shoot-em-ups as a kid, > even though there were next to no "normal" looking women in them (with the > exception of metal slug :), but now most women in games are portrayed as a > prize or a sexy enemy. It is no wonder there are image problems left right > an center. Loads of games still rock, and have female characters that are > cool and getting more chicks to write games would help :)
Exactly. Aleks Krotoski wrote about this in her ELSPA White Paper (http://www.elspa.com/about/pr/elspawhitepaper3.pdf) "Chicks and Joysticks: An Exploration of Women and Gaming." (See sidebars on "Turning Men On, and Women Off: The Helpless Female" and "Turning Men On, and Women Off: Sex Kittens.") Coincidentally, I'm going to a talk by Aleks on women in gaming this afternoon. I expect others will be interested in hearing about it, so I'll post a summary here afterwards. -- hanna m. wallach blog: http://join-the-dots.org/ work: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/hmw26/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
