Obviously, Sexism in games is kind of a deal around here, and we’re always looking to up the signal, broaden the conversation, and keep talking about the issues until they improve. (And they can and DO improve!) So when GaW’s own Professor Jessica Hammer turned me on to GTFO, a documentary in the making...
Read more →Convention season is fast approaching, and with the advent of convention season comes the return of the furor over the problem of convention harassment and how to deal with that. And because I read several blogs in other areas of geekdom besides gaming, this is a theme that I’m seeing repeat over… and over…...
Read more →This is the follow up to the previous article Men wear armour, Women wear sexy-time lingerie. Here I address issues of how men and women are pictured in games, beyond what they are wearing. We will try to answer the this two common questions that often arise in discussion: “What is wrong with pictures...
Read more →Okay, so the title maybe gives it away. But! I promise that there will be a bit of a twist ending. Fine fine, not really a twist ending at all. Anyway, I’ll get to that in a bit. The Tournament I’ll admit, I was quite nervous. Worried about how I’d be perceived. About all...
Read more →Sometimes, two questions pop up when you discuss women wear when they are pictured in games. ”What is wrong with chainmail bikinis? It’s fantasy, it doesn’t have to be realistic!” ”What is wrong with chainmail bikinis? Sexy doesn’t equal sexist!” Let’s try to answer the two questions in this article. In the end they...
Read more →There’s a Magic: The Gathering tournament this Friday. I was invited because they want as many people as possible to come to the game and I used to play way back in the day. It’s been quite a while. I started playing in, what, 1996? I don’t even remember. But it was a long...
Read more →The Daily Beast gives many, many good points about why it’s time to end the U.S. Military’s female combat ban. Slate featured an article by Rebecca Watson about her experiences after she spoke about sexism in the skeptic community. (Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault.) This article at The Geeky Peacock is awesome. I like...
Read more →I recently had the opportunity to speak with creators of the Pathfinder RPG at Paizo Publishing, James Jacobs (Creative Director) and F. Wesley Schneider (Editor-in-Chief). The subjects at hand were: the inclusion of the “forced-sex” origins of Half-Orcs in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook (discussed here), and some of the art in the Pathfinder Advanced...
Read more →In exciting news, F. Wesley Schneider shared Brie’s Paizo Publishing and Pathfinder – Half Orc Origins post AND posted Meet the Iconics: Imrijka fiction about the half-orc Inquisitor. We’re excited for all of the dialogue with Wes this week! We’d like to hear our readers’ thoughts on the “The Message” movement (Men Ending Slurs and Sexist...
Read more →It’s that time again! Time for another installment of Dear Gaming as Women! We do invite our fair readers to send us questions, and today’s question is from a convention organizer (we’ve been asked not to specify which convention) regarding implementation of anti-harassment policies at conventions. There’s some great stuff here, so let’s dive...
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