Idk about anyone else but I found this very interesting. I’m not really a super activist about gender equality (which in itself probably says something about how far we have come and so on), and I had honestly never really thought about this before… it just seemed ‘normal, always this way’ to me. And actually I probably SHOULD be more about gender equality. After all I was the only girl in my class in college - my game programming class of course - for the vast majority of the time, and when I wasn’t, there was only one other female and over two dozen males. I’m happy though knowing that good ol’ vidja games are starting to be used so much more as educational devices, which in turn exposes younger females to them, thereby eliminating some of the chance for those girls to grow up thinking ‘only boys play games’ or whatnot. I mean, I don’t really know why a girl would feel that way at all, I still remember being raptly fascinated by Super Mario World which was my first home video game, and it only spread as time went on.
Now I don’t play as many games as I’d like. I’ve been dabbling with free-to-play MMOs, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning the last few weeks.
Well that was a tangent all right. Back to my writing…
