Beginning with Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox”, I agree with what he has to say regarding the difficulty of women joining gaming communities. In my own life, and with several of my female friends, I have heard stories about how they were harassed in online communities, hit on by creeps at gaming conventions, and had […]

All of these articles are related because they discuss gender roles in games. Gender roles in gaming has always been an issue and is still prevalent today. The first two articles discuss the roles of females in gaming more generally where as the third article specifically discusses the game tomb raider. All of the articles […]

Quake Girls to Desperate Housewives discusses the complications that girls face when trying to participate in the gaming world. Although they claim that the gap between sexes access to online sources is almost closed, this hardly means that women are equivalent to men when it comes to gaming. When looking at the fields that correspond […]

The title of this post is just the names the authors of the articles. As for the articles themselves, Jenkins & Cassell and Yee both write about female representation in gaming, both in the player base and the industry, while Anderson & Levene explore the origin, rise, and fall of Lara Croft, as well as her impact […]

Just for those who do not understand the title, it is a culmination of all the reading article titles together. Anyways, talking about the actual readings, what was said holds very true even to this day in my opinion. The two articles, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat and The Proteus Paradox, were both focused on the […]