Women and Games
Question:
Is it really fair to only analyze women gamers? it seemed to me like the categories they put them in could be the same categories for males who play games, from intense gamers to non gamers?
This article was interesting to me and at first i thought their argument was going to focus mostly on the stigma of women gamers and their reactions to being a part of a male dominated hobby. It surprised me that they did not focus on these topics nearly as much as they could have and I think that weakened their argument. Instead of focusing soley on how women feel about playing games with male protagonists and the women being very sexual, they decided to focus on just why women play video games. The angle they took in this article is not an original angle that really gets to the core of women playing video games and why it is interesting. The frequency and reasons women play video games that they found could be the same reasoning for men which made this argument pretty much mean nothing to me as a reader. I was expecting a fresh view on women in gaming, but what i read was an angle and topic that could be addressed about why males play video games just as easily as why women play .
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