This Week in Gaming
by wundergeek and Kira Scott • May 20, 2012 • News • 1 Comment
Why “Straight White Male” is like playing on Easy Mode. This post by John Scalzi is, hands down, the best explanation of privilege for a gaming audience I have ever seen. I’m going to link this now and forever. – wundergeek
Anita Sarkeesian, the woman behind the fabulous Feminist Frequency series of videos, has launched a Kickstarter to fund a series of long-form videos about tropes vs. women in video games. It looks to be an interesting project. – wundergeek
Brian Psiropoulos wrote about similar issues as my Performing Gender piece in his post called Gender/Play on the girls like giants blog. Thanks for the heads up Brian! It’s cool to see people discussing this in the video game genre as well. – Kira
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