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You all know that I don’t usually bring my politics into the world of Veteran Gamers, at least not without someone asking my opinion. But just this once I’m going to make an exception. Fortunately we’re a pretty enlightened bunch around here, so I hope you’ll forgive my intrusion. A woman named Anita Sarkeesian runs a website called Feminist Frequency, which uses short videos to examine representations of women
Carol Shaw was a pioneering video game designer back in the glory days of the first Atari home systems. She created River Raid, a superb game on the 2600. Vintage Computing and Gaming did an extended interview with her recently, which is definitely worth a look. One time when I was working in the lab, Ray Kassar, President of A well-structured and intelligent look at the gender dynamics at play in many video games, which tries to shed some light on why so many women (and men, like me) get pissed off at how women are portrayed in games (and comics, movies, etc). The Escapist : The Big Picture : Gender Games |
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