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- Crane's question of why there aren't more women game creators? Or, why don't more women play video games?
Here's a revelation that should have happened sooner: an industry that continually considers "50% of world population is a 'niche' market, while 18-25 year old males (~5% population) are 'core' [sic]," according to one male game designer on Twitter, is going to attract fewer women to their product.
Ditto an industry that dismisses game concepts for not being "f**kable" and apparently told their female leaders "we don't need women in order to know what female players want from this industry," according to two other tweets. So when an industry is unrelentingly sexist, women don't flock to it! Who knew? -
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Further on this topic I found an excellent come back on tumblr from a fellow girl gamer to an entitled man-child;
[man-child]: what you fail to realize is that video games shouldn't cater to females in the first place. It's largely known that it's targeted towards the MALE demographic and has been for so many years, so why would they ask for something like that to be handed to them on a goddamn silver platter?
that's like a guy walking into the women's department of clothing at a sears and demanding that there be more clothing for men there. Separation of sections be damned.
that's not how it f'ing works.
[Answer]: no not really
the game industry is more like walking into a regular department store and seeing that all the clothes are only men's clothes
and when you ask the cashier where the women's clothing section is, they wheel out a small rack of cheaply made tutus, g-strings, and high heels all in bright pink
and then when you go "wow really that's it" you get called an uppity bitch and everybody assumes you want all the focus on you when in reality you'd just like to be considered a worthwhile demographic since you also like to wear clothes, it's not like you want some ridiculous getup, you just want a solid shirt and pair of pants that fits you alright.
I mean hell you even sort of like men's clothes and you have no problem wearing them. They suit you well. But it's very obvious once you throw on a pair of men's pants that they were not made for you.
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