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 difficulty even getting into the community soley based on the fact that they were female and nothing else. To me, this is absurd. It’s 2018, and there is no freaking evidence that women are inferior to men in gaming or anything else, and yet communities still feed into it. Part of this is in the gaming community is due to the reason that Yee outlines: “video gaming is dominated by male game designers making games for male players”. This makes sense as we see it all the time in literally every genre of game. The example that springs to my mind is Chun Lee, one of the most powerful fighters in the game, and yet she is shown in an absurdly tight and short Chinese dress while her male counterparts are dressed traditionally in modern martial arts garb. The more games I play (or perhaps the older I get), the more examples of this I notice. Female characters are often given the short end of the stick; being delegated to secondary roles if not outright damsels in distress. If more female protagonist games were released, or even just games that took out the overt sexualization of women, I feel like slowly we could see a shift towards a better, more balanced community that is not so lopsided as the male dominated one we currently have.<\/p>\n
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