women
Women make up a huge chunk of the game-playing population, but it ain't always simple being a girl gamer.
For The Love of Gaming
“There weren’t always dragons in the valley. What does that mean?” GamerGirl4EVER reads her scroll. “I wish these quest descriptions were a little more specific,” She keeps clicking on the quest menu, in a fruitless attempt to better understand the cryptic message.
By Rose Rossenbach4 years ago in Gamers
The Evolution of a Female Gamer. Top Story - May 2022.
When I was a kid, I was one of the very few girls who played video games. It wasn’t something that girls did back in the 1980s. Little girls were supposed to play with Barbies and baby dolls. They were supposed to play dress up and pretend to be wives and mothers, I guess in preparation for their adult lives. While I did play with my Barbies on occasion, usually with my cousins, I didn’t pretend Barbie was dating Ken or was always dressing up for parties. Barbie had real issues to deal with in her life. My Ken was often a murderer and Barbie had to solve the crime before the other Barbies were victims. Sometimes Barbie’s life was normal, but most of the time I preferred to play with Star Wars action figures, Legos, and Hot Wheels because there was more action to them. As the gaming industry began to develop, I started to shift to more video games. I was unknowingly laying the foundations of becoming a gamer.
By Jen Sullivan4 years ago in Gamers
Why Aloy is the Character Female Gamers Need
Yes, I am an adult female gamer — a growing crowd over the last several years. I have been gaming since I was a little girl during the age of the ColecoVision and the Atari 2600. In a previous article titled “ The Evolution of a Female Gamer,” I shared my experiences as the gaming industry progressed, mainly playing online during the early days of Xbox Live. There is an area of gaming that has drawn the attention of the female gamer that I touched on a bit in that article: female lead characters.
By Jen Sullivan4 years ago in Gamers
GAMER_MOM
My stats are: Age 43, female, married, 3 kids–all boys. I love reading, writing, cooking, drinking whiskey, dancing (sometimes while drinking whiskey) listening to Nina Simone and ... playing video games. But please, don't be cringe and call me a GAMER MOM. My 13 year old son can't handle it.
By @K_L_Rivera4 years ago in Gamers
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
