August 2011
2 posts
'I am just happy to join such a respected... →
what I see is a young woman who’s just stoked to game with the pros. I mean, can you imagine? Somebody strolls up to you and says, “Hey, do you want to get paid to play video games?” I would be over the freakin’ moon. Can you then imagine what it would be like to read those comments and see those pictures and hear dudes on YouTube trashing you for not being as good as players who have been pro...
Women Play Magic the Gathering! →
Brought to me by the Ever-Fighting @SarahDarkmagic
July 2011
6 posts
At Least We're not as Bad as Comic Con →
Heroic? Jennifer Stuller, Seth Green, and no surprise to me, The Girl Scouts! (Go girl scouts, go!)
June 2011
11 posts
'Strong Female' Characters vs Strong Characters,... →
Some movies nowadays go even further. They pile up one awesome trait after another on top of this sexy female character, thinking that will make them “stronger.” For instance, consider Rachel Taylor’s character in Transformers, who, Megan Fox claims, is an intelligent, Strong Female Character. Of course! She’s a 23-year-old, model-thin super-attractive super-genius hacker who is SO SMART...
WatchYes, this, a thousand times this. (Care of @lilyorit care of @geardrops)
Geeky Dad Day!
How about something awesome for a bit? Here’s some links to some awesome gamer dads, or stories about gamer dads! (My own dad isn’t a gamer, but boy, he helped create one.)
Amanda Valentine talks about her husband and what a great gamer dad he is! (Also a great blog to watch, as that’s her first post.)
Philippe-Antoine Menard, or The Chatty DM talks a lot about gaming with...
megan rosalarian gedris: Dressed to Kill →
rosalarian:
Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Or are they? You do or pick art for game books? You might want to consider this piece as well. Sexual, sensual pieces are sometimes right. This might be a good litmus.
“A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s...”
– Db0 (Feminists don’t think all men are rapists. Rapists do.)
You're calling it a battle. I'm asking for help. →
This isn’t uncommon. A request for help, for equality, for shared understanding is treated as an attack. (Because as long as we’re ‘irrational’ and ‘just angry,’ our questions of ‘why’ are easy to dismiss.)
I’m with Lindsey. I want you to be my ally, Dustin. I want you to help me and make me feel welcome. If you don’t want that, sure,...
May 2011
12 posts
DC Women Kicking Ass: I am done with people saying... →
dcwomenkickingass:
Last week Entertainment Weekly called it “a stripper outfit”. Yesterday on the Beat someone said it made her look like a “prostitute.” I’ve also heard hooker, slut, streetwalker and plenty of other descriptors.
So much fail.
What Wonder Woman wears has nothing to do with her sex life or…
Avoiding Sexist Art →
Thanks @russellem for, as always, being a wonderful human being.
Fairness at the Gaming Table →
Thanks @adamjury for posting this on twitter.
I know there are a lot of allies that get uncomfortable when we talk about privilage. This is another attempt to described privilage and what it means, but I think it’s still a little rough to allies who are sensitive about it. That’s okay, we’re all working for the language for the conversation.
It’s still a great post....
“Advice for young feminists? Do something else besides feminism. I’m serious. The...”
– Latoya Peterson (via all y’all / whereisyourline.org)
GameZenith's rather superb post about a recent... →
Inclusion, by the way, is not just something I want for women. A black protag? Rock on. Now if only it wasn’t PS3 *grin*
gamejournos:
GameZenith’s Tyrell Jackson wrote a simply marvellous little assessment of a recent IGN post about the black protagonist in Starhawk that had me thinking, “Wow, I wish I’d written that.”
Read Jackson’s criticism here. The IGN article in question can he...
J.R. Blackwell: Ladies, Be A Man →
jrblackwell:
Whenever I sign up for a site on the internet, I register as a Man. I’m male, a guy, a dude, a bro, a penis-possessor, masculine identified, a beard-shaving, balls-having, capital M male.
It wasn’t always this way. I used to register as being female. But no more! I discovered that being female…
The Invisibility of Women →
We don’t define other writers and editors by their relationships but their accomplishments and roles. I catch myself in the succeeding sentences where I describe Tijam as an editor and a talented writer, but it’s interesting how it’s prefaced by her relationship status. The damage has been done.
Hate Her Because She's Beautiful →
I’ve done it. Dismissed a fellow gamer because she was attractive by media standards. Is it right? Of course it isn’t. It’s wrong, wrong wrong. I fight it whenever it comes up. But so long as (geek) culture is going to pay her more attention than me because she’s skinny and I’m not, it’s hard not to feel better. Solution? Stop putting value on ‘sex...
April 2011
4 posts
Female Lantern gets covered up in new TV ad
dcwomenkickingass:
When the GL footage from WonderCon was released, I noted that the one female Lantern was not wearing a lot of costume and suggested Warner Bros. might want to fix it.
The Green Lantern film is made for all,
So please heed this bloggers call,
Use some CGI to add some green
So less of this female Lantern’s boobs are seen
Last night the new television ad was released. See...
I want you to know that you hurt me, White Wolf →
Details: We are looking for four women that are a size 6 or under
I don’t have much to say. I am a fan of White Wolf. I have been a writer for White Wolf. I am a size 16/18, and I am not alone.
Now, perhaps the other clan images are where the average sized models are. Maybe Shane can address that by showing us character images that look like me any many other women who are...
Game Designer talks about gender roles in nerdom →
Slut-shaming is something that’s coming up a lot around me in my gaming experience lately. I’m guilty of it myself sometimes and I hate it. It’s nice to see a designer who sees it, and among his other random thoughts on sexism, mentions it. Thanks Jamie.
It really gets my goat that the same people who will admire and high-five a guy for getting it on with a dozen women over...
What we want in sex-positive female characters →
Isabela is pretty much an all-round legitimate harbinger of female positivity, when it gets right down to it; an actually honest-to-gods example of how to do a confident female character who not only legitimately owns her own sexuality but goes out of her way to be a mentor and friend to other women.
January 2011
4 posts
Dismissive →
Oh Russel, I love you.
Games are sexist. Roleplaying games are sexist. Video games are sexist. Massively multiplayer online games are sexist. Not all of them, not always, but way too many and way too often.
Ann Dupuis, Mother of Indie Games →
Ann Dupuis deserves the gratitude of everyone who creates, publishes, plays, and buys independently published, storytelling-oriented roleplaying games today. As a publisher, author, and designer she took risks early on, way before the advent of the modern online PDF market and Print On Demand made being a game publisher comparatively easy and cheap.
Fuck you, Urban Outfitters →
They can Eat Me, how about that?
November 2010
3 posts
“It occurred to me that many men had trouble expressing empathy because no one...”
– So that essay I wrote for The Good Men Project is up. I probably won’t read the comments but if you want to talk to me about this or whatever, as always, you can email me.
(via nightmarebrunette)
Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill... →
stfuconservatives:
Thanks, GOP! Finally, a good way to discourage women from the workforce.
TO ALL GIRLS, PLEASE BE AWARE! →
zerostop:
keleison:
gentlemannick:
keleison:
ipissexcellence-:
amourseeo-xo:
shortxmimi:
joxa:
(Published by CNN.NDTV)
This message is for every girl who goes to work, school, or home alone.
If you find a child crying on the road showing his/her address & asking you to take him/her to that address, immediately take that child to the police station and ABSOLUTELY NOT to the...
October 2010
2 posts
When Women Discuss Sexism on the Tubes →
August 2010
5 posts
New Statesman - Girls, exams and employment - a... →
rayoffuckingsunshine:
Girls are trained from an early age to understand ourselves as social and physical commodities, as objects for others’ consumption who can adapt and should submit to whatever the current labour market wants from us. We expect to have to work hard for little or no reward, to be pleasant and self-effacing at all times. If we encounter failure - whether in the face of...
“This makes me so fucking happy:
Feminism expects a man to be ethical,...”
– Michael S. Kimmel (via sarahgraham7, adales, nudecency) (via earlyfrost) (via feistyfeminist) (via likefirehellfire) (via rayoffuckingsunshine)
Wow, Kotaku sure are obsessed with... →
gamejournos:
Two days ago Luke Plunkett decided she was worth writing an article about, opting to eschew the “poor her” angle of the story in favour of one more slanted towards the “I SURE HOPES SHE GOTS A GREAT ASS!!!11” spectrum of stories about people who remove clothes for money.
Kerplunkett made the mistake, however, of stepping on Bashcraft’s turf. He’s the one who writes about...
Border House Asks: Ain't I a Gamer? →
Gaming Products by Women: Blowback →
June 2010
7 posts
4 tags
