Tag Archives: women
BBC’s The Women Challenging Sexism in E-Sports
A quick one to share today: Apart of their 100 Women of 2016 series, a series of videos and articles about influential women in varying industries, the BBC has put together a video and accompanying piece about women in the … Continue reading
Nintendo Celebrates Women’s History Month
Nintendo’s been making some headlines this week with their announcement that they’ll soon be entering the smartphone app world, but they’ve also been hard at work highlighting some of their memorable female characters in honor of Women’s History month. Here … Continue reading
New Tropes VS. Women In Gaming Video: Women as Background Decoration Part 1
Anita Sarkeesian has released a new installment in her Tropes Vs. Women in Gaming video series that explores women as decorative objects in gaming. Her videos tend to be controversial amongst the gaming community, but I think she does great work to … Continue reading
Forbes Releases Their Choices for the Top 10 Powerful Women in Gaming
Forbes Releases Their Choices for the Top 10 Powerful Women in Gaming Forbes released their list of the 10 most powerful women in gaming today. In an industry dominated by men, the 10 listed women are blazing new ground for … Continue reading
Tropes vs Women in Video Games – Part 3:Damsel in Distress
The third installment in the Tropes vs Women in Video Games series has been released today. I’m not going to say anything about it, but here’s a brief description: This is the third installment in our three part mini-series exploring … Continue reading
Tropes vs. Women in Games Ep. 2
This is just a quick one: A few days ago Anita Sarkeesian released her second Tropes Vs. Women in Games episode, focusing on the trope of the damsel in distress in recent video games. There’s is nothing I can say … Continue reading
Female Employee Calls out Game Developer Boss’ Sexism with Awesome Prank
Female Employee Calls out Game Developer Boss’ Sexism with Awesome Prank This is just a bit of great and funny news. A post that originated on “The Hawkeye Initiative”(which if you haven’t already gone and checked out you should do … Continue reading
How Objectificiation Hurts Video Games
How Objectificiation Hurts Video Games (Caution, main picture on the article is a little on the NSFW side) Here’s an article that was posted on the NYTimes Live site. To be honest, it’s not the greatest article, but it brings … Continue reading
Can Video Games Teach Young Girls To Be Rich?
Can Video Games Teach Young Girls To Be Rich? http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanshapiro/2013/05/09/can-video-games-teach-our-daughters-to-be-rich/ These two articles came out in the last few days, and they examine how children’s gaming is gendered, and ask the question “what are games teaching or not teaching our … Continue reading
Misogynism in Video Games: Struggles and Solutions
Misogynism in Video Games: Struggles and Solutions This interesting article hit the web last week. It chronicles one female’s gamers struggle towards acceptance in both her online communities and her real world gaming community. “A lot of ‘gamer’ guys just … Continue reading
