{"id":203,"date":"2018-10-02T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/?p=203"},"modified":"2018-10-02T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:52:17","slug":"response-to-3-readings-on-gendergames-micaela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/2018\/10\/02\/response-to-3-readings-on-gendergames-micaela\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to 3 Readings on Gender&amp;Games (Micaela)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself extremely interested in each of the readings for today! <em>Lara<\/em> explained the phenomenon of Tomb Raider and its protagonist Lara Croft (as well of the tragedy of the game\u2019s creator, leaving before profiting), <em>From Quake Grrls to Desperate Housewives <\/em>discussed the factors of the Girl Games Movement and its impact or lack of impact in certain areas (including the videogame industry), and <em>Locker Room Utopia<\/em> went into depth about the alienation of girls\/women in videogames and videogame environments, as well as the representation of women in games.<\/p>\n<p>Both Yee and Jenkins &amp; Cassell brought up points that I\u2019d noticed myself when playing videogames. They mainly discussed MMORPGs, which I have never personally played, but I\u2019ve watched my brother filter through and play intensively for years as we grew up. I can\u2019t count all the times his friends (the online ones, at least) would inquire about the female voice in the background and he would immediately explain \u201cIt\u2019s just my little sister\u201d and probably cue me to get out of his room. It was the same when his friends (all male) would come over to play whatever on the Xbox and immediately shoo me out of the room and close the door. He grew out of that and we eventually played countless games together, but I\u2019ve seen firsthand how male dominated games can be.<\/p>\n<p>The point Jenkins &amp; Cassell made about game-spaces now being described as predatory to girls\/women is also something that I\u2019d never really thought about but found to be very true. When I was 10-12, playing Little Big Planet, I would often notice my mom hovering around, watching the chat, asking me what I\u2019m talking about with the people online. God forbid I used a mic around her (I just did that when she wasn\u2019t home). She hated the idea of me playing games online but couldn\u2019t stop me on the principle that my brother had done it before me and she hadn\u2019t said a thing. <em>It\u2019s just different. <\/em>That\u2019s the reason parents give. It\u2019s always different when it\u2019s the daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Which kind of sucks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**This wasn\u2019t supposed to be a vent, I was just relating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself extremely interested in each of the readings for today! Lara explained the phenomenon of Tomb Raider and its protagonist Lara Croft (as well of the tragedy of the game\u2019s creator, leaving before profiting), From Quake Grrls to Desperate Housewives discussed the factors of the Girl Games Movement and its impact or lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys100-15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}