Talk:Women in Gaming

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In the Game Content section, can we have a citation for the claim "Although these games were, and still are, successful with male gamers, the violent and aggressive nature proved to be less appealing to women."? Seems to be based off the stereotype that men like violence and women don't. - Drake

a big thing going on right now is the kickstarter led by Anita Sarkeesian and the news involved with that- worth looking into Brownman (talk) 16:19, 5 December 2012 (EST)

I fixed up a few of the examples that were incorrect and cleaned up some of the phrasing/grammar. The page needs better organization on a whole, since sub categories are sometimes not related to its parent category. Some of the pictures are broken, as well. -Michael

Does anyone know if under "Other examples of female video game characters" the first subcategory means eroticized characters? (I don't know enough about mortal kombat) The subheading seems to imply so, but then the lead in paragraph before the bullets contradicts that... - Allison

  • yup beyond good and evil is seen as portraying the female lead character in a positive manner.

i moved what was the original ethics section to the acceptance of women in gaming, and started a broader discussion of the ethical issues in portraying women in gaming. but it needs expanding.

i undid the last edit, i think it was a little extreme, the information needs some editing but you can't talk about women in games without looking at race/gender/sex/color all of which are essentially null use categories but are exploited in games to different effects thus...they have to be addressed