women
Women make up a huge chunk of the game-playing population, but it ain't always simple being a girl gamer.
Pub Games and Women - Jem’s Perspective
My parents took me to quite a few pubs when I was younger, but I don't remember playing any games in them because we were too busy eating crisps. I think probably my earliest memories are playing pool in pubs when I was a teenager and just hanging out.
By Gaming The System - The Feminist Gaming Podcast4 years ago in Gamers
Hyper-Sexualization of Women in Gaming - Caroline’s Perspective
We’ll start off with my most egregious examples. I quite often talk about how I love playing 7 Days to Die. I shouldn't because it's a terrible game and I hate the developers in so many ways, but I do like playing the game. You get to build, you get to do whatever you like and I like those games. Creating my own house, spending time doing things and killing zombies. One of the traders that exists in this post apocalyptic world is Trader Jen and 7 Days To Die has been an alpha for about a century and the latest update came out and what did all those developers spend that time doing? They made her cans bigger and lessened the doctor aspect and it made her look more like a nurse. It's just tiresome when you're playing games as a woman to have to constantly look at this stuff.
By Gaming The System - The Feminist Gaming Podcast4 years ago in Gamers
Accessibility and Disability in Gaming - Matt's Analysis
Accessibility and disability are issues that the gaming industry shares with wider society. The message that society tends to send to anyone who is not a white, cisgender, straight, white, able-bodied man with no illnesses whatsoever is that you don't belong here, that this is not a space that the belongs to you. Then we add in capitalism, which espouses that if you can't work a nine to five job then you're essentially a drain on society and you're worthless. Sometimes you can feel like a dead weight on society. It's terrible for your self-esteem. The gaming industry is not exempt. This article is about the idea of whether games give you a sense that you belong.
By Gaming The System - The Feminist Gaming Podcast4 years ago in Gamers
Roleplaying the Real Me
We spend most of our lives wrapped up in the concept of who we are supposed to be. Acting as expected, and never straying from the course. As a woman, I’m expected to sit down, and shut up. I’m supposed to be meek, and well mannered. Never raise my voice, and always say please and thank you. I’m supposed to dress nice and smell good. Never cuss or fight back. I’m supposed to fit into this mold of how women are meant to be. A mold that society has spent decades upon decades crafting.
By Leah Knight4 years ago in Gamers
How I splatted my way to Inner Peace
“Call me when you’re on your break” His text said. I call my husband as my break begins and he tells me he’s about to buy a Nintendo Switch. Before games me scoffs” We already have more than one Xbox and a PlayStation”. My husband builds his case for purchasing a Switch by telling me it’s a gaming system that all 4 of our children can play simultaneously. Multiplayer games are already in his hands. After he tells me what it’s on sale for, I tell him to go for it but I’m not convinced it’s a smart buy. Oh, how wrong I was.
By Britt Blomster 4 years ago in Gamers
Dungeons and Dragons; an experience in itself.
I started to learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons with a few online friends at the beginning of covid-19 lockdown of 2019 summer. I began my journey with a Dwarf -Druid named Rosaline Warhammer, who had a large red beard alongside her bushy and curly red hair. I almost died 2 times within this game, and I ended with a permanent injury to my knee which decrease my walking speed by five foot, and as a dwarf only has 25ft of walking speed - this wasn't very good at all.
By Amethyst Atkinson5 years ago in Gamers
