Online Gaming and Gender
Mythago has a great post entitled: "Why is my girl repellent chasing off all the hot chicks?" Here is an excerpt:
The eternal "debate" about T&A in gaming goes like this:
Female Gamer: This really pisses me off.
Male Gamer: The human body is beautiful. You don't have to look at it. If most gamers were female we'd have more naked men and male booth bimbos, although I'm really pretty freaked out at any hint of homosexuality--plus, I could never compete with those hot male models--so I'd be very uncomfortable if that happened, which luckily it never will. Say, I wonder why there aren't more female gamers?
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there are some good sites just for female gamers:
thumbbandits.com
gamegirlz.com
womengamers.com
you might be interested to know that there is LOTS of research going on about gender and gaming--game studies is its own subfield now and i think you can even concentrate in it in some new media degree programs.
for general info on the field start here:
http://socialstudygames.com/
http://terranova.blogspot.com
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February 22, 2006 01:27 AM
There is some research about gender and gaming by academics, and I'm glad to see it, but not nearly enough, and very little interest expressed by mainstream commercial gaming interests. Women gamers tend to be pretty marginalized and othered by most gaming communities.
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February 22, 2006 10:07 AM
ann, sorry, that was my fault. as someone in a very marginal field of research (disability studies & cyberculture studies) i think i redefine the word LOTS sometimes. I occasionally forget that some topics are (and all topics should be) famous to more than fifteen people.
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February 26, 2006 12:14 PM