In an article entitled"It’s 2014 And People Are Still Awful To Female Gamers" on NYULOCAL, Eric Eidelstein explains how females are not being treated as equals. How females are being sometimes sexually harassed and viewed upon as inferior.
Written in the article "In addition to this shock, Ourivio explains that women are often portrayed as damsels in distress in some games." Eric explains how the image of females are stereotyped to damsels who need rescue by typically a male hero. That stereotype portrays women as always needing help and unable to be as good as a male.
Also written in the article "45% of the 58% of Americans who play video games identify themselves as women," The author tells us how females are not a minority but an equal. They make up around half the population yet females are still discriminated against.
Written in the article "In 2012, competitive gamer publicly defended sexual harassment in gaming." The author tells us that the harassment has been defended and concluded to be as normal in fighting games. This tells us that the harassment is normal throughout the community in some parts and will stay for some time.
To myself, I think females are treated horrible. Something needs to change and all this harassment is unneeded in the gaming community.
Why are females being discriminated and stereotyped? If games would place females on equals as males, would the discrimination stop?
Monday, January 27, 2014
Current Connection 3.1
In the Washington Times Article Entitled "Report: Nearly half of gamers are women" written by Annie Z. Yu, She informs us about how even though half of the gaming population are female, they are still thought of as the minority in a male dominated culture of gaming. Females are considered rare even though they make up half of the gaming population and are harassed and treated lowly.
Written in the article "Every time fellow gamers realize she is a woman, she said, they make surprised, derogatory or sexually suggestive comments". Females are clearly not treated as equals in the gaming community. Though half of the population are females, they are thought of as rare and so treated harshly as they move into a male dominated culture.
Quoted from the article"It goes from that, to if you win a game, they think you’re cheating or that it’s not really you playing, and they think it’s your boyfriend or your husband, because there’s no possible way a woman could be playing that well". Playing typical male games, Males regard females as below themselves because males tend to think of themselves as dominate, especially in the field of gaming.
quoted from the article"His daughter Allison is finishing her third year at the University of California, Riverside. Now 21, Allison still plays computer games — mainly, 'League of Legends' and 'Borderlands 2.' Clearly females are entering the field mainly dominated by male players and therefore males are seeing the new trend. Though since the field is mostly male dominated, they are regarded as lowly.
This connects to me because I am also a gamer and i know the stereotypes females have. I rarely see females playing League of legends or any other game usually so knowing a female is playing makes the situation different because you are use to playing with males.
Females are entering section of gaming traditionally played by mainly males, and therefore will face discrimination but I think that with time, females will become common enough that playing with them will eventually become the norm.
Written in the article "Every time fellow gamers realize she is a woman, she said, they make surprised, derogatory or sexually suggestive comments". Females are clearly not treated as equals in the gaming community. Though half of the population are females, they are thought of as rare and so treated harshly as they move into a male dominated culture.
Quoted from the article"It goes from that, to if you win a game, they think you’re cheating or that it’s not really you playing, and they think it’s your boyfriend or your husband, because there’s no possible way a woman could be playing that well". Playing typical male games, Males regard females as below themselves because males tend to think of themselves as dominate, especially in the field of gaming.
quoted from the article"His daughter Allison is finishing her third year at the University of California, Riverside. Now 21, Allison still plays computer games — mainly, 'League of Legends' and 'Borderlands 2.' Clearly females are entering the field mainly dominated by male players and therefore males are seeing the new trend. Though since the field is mostly male dominated, they are regarded as lowly.
This connects to me because I am also a gamer and i know the stereotypes females have. I rarely see females playing League of legends or any other game usually so knowing a female is playing makes the situation different because you are use to playing with males.
Females are entering section of gaming traditionally played by mainly males, and therefore will face discrimination but I think that with time, females will become common enough that playing with them will eventually become the norm.
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