#women in gaming
The evolution of girl gamers
Boy gamers are so self-centered they act as though women haven’t been playing video games for decades, and then act horrified when the female gamers who have always been there actually become visible and vocal about the rampant misogyny that has infected the gaming world.
Like seriously, how entitled do you have to be that women saying “it sure would be nice if I wasn’t treated like shit while enjoying the games I play” translates to “I must be catered to” when video games have LITERALLY been catered to men for decades?
More like:
- 1993 - 64% of girls reported playing video games
- 1996 - “home use had increased for fourth grade girls”
- 1998 - “both male and female adolescents play video games on a regular basis.“
- 1999 - “88% of the female college students … surveyed were video game players.”
- 2007 - 20-47% of adolescent girls play video games
- 2008 - “94% of girls play video games”
- 2010 - “Forty percent of all game players are women.”
- 2012 - “Women 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (30%) than boys age 17 or younger"
- 2013 -“adult women are nearly half of all video game players”
I didn’t get all the dates, but I think you can get the point.
Also considered posting my own personal gaming history, but I would’ve had to go back to the 80s for that. e_e
More like ‘white male entitlement in the video game industry over the years’
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TogtherCon 2022: That’s a Wrap!
A brief wrap up from TogtherCon 2022 by @ThiatheBard
#togthercon #virtualconvention
It is always wonderful when people can come together and make something really special happen. Every year I am blown away by TogtherCon. It continues to get bigger and better. That is in no small part due to a lot of hard work by staff, attendees and those who put on all of our fun. Panels, workshops, live shows and even movies that get played during the day all have hours put in to make them…
When someone tells you 50% of gamers are women, show them this
The results reported in this monograph are based upon 153,015 first-time, full-time students who entered 227 four-year U.S. colleges and universities of varying selectivity and type. Weights have been applied to these data to reflect the more than 1.6 million first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began college at 1,583 four-year colleges and universities across the U.S. in the fall of 2014. This means that differences of one percentage point in the results published here reflect the characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes of more than 16,000 first-year students nationally.
http://www.heri.ucla.edu/monographs/theamericanfreshman2014-Expanded.pdf
For comparison, the ESA reports only have a sample size of about 2,200
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Sister Augusta by Ayla Meridian
WAAAAAGH!
Undermountain!
In the latest edition of the video game series Grand Theft Auto you can approach a female sex worker, choose what sexual act to engage in from a price list ($50 for a blow job, $70 for a half-and-half, $100 for everything), engage in the chosen act (and thus increase your life points), pay, and then kill the sex worker and get your money back.. You cannot, however, play a female character. The creators of Grand Theft Auto V have made it very clear: women are objects to be toyed with, not human beings.
This game, which allows the player to enter first-person mode, not only objectifies women, and particularly sex workers, it glorifies and trivialises violence against women. It turns it all into fun and games. The game allows you to kill a sex worker for no particular reason. It makes it cool to buy services from a sex worker and then physically harm her. It even rewards you for these acts!
Video game creators are free to create any scenarios and universes they want, yet this is what they choose to create. And this is what people chose to play. The existence of this game and its popularity are clearly a reflection of the misogyny in our society. There’s no doubt, we’re a long way from gender equality.
