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?
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