Archive for January 14, 2012

| January 30, 2012
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Sexism and Racism in Media

I’m a person that doesn’t believe that sexism or racism should be stripped from games.

I know, I know! But step back and look at it from another perspective. Is it the racism and sexism bothering you? Or is it how it’s handled?

Look at all the books and movies and TV shows that you enjoy, and compare them to the games you enjoy. Now think of the racism or sexism in them. Does it add or detract to the media? Does it serve a purpose? And, I think most importantly, are the characters /aware/ of the sexism and racism of their world?

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| January 27, 2012
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Why Steam Works

So I was doing up my spending information from 2011 and there was a few surprises in store. The biggest one, though, was definitely just how much money I give to Steam every month.

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| January 25, 2012
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Disability and the Male Gaze

I want to continue on from lesbians and the male gaze into the territory of disability. Disability, and especially disability in a sexualized context is something that isn’t discussed in very many mainstream outlets. I’ve read about them mostly of feminist and sociology blogs, and very rarely does anything hit the mainstream.

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| January 23, 2012
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SWTOR: Women Don’t Flirt?

I’ve been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) for the last few weeks, and have been really enjoying it. I’ve leveled a Sith Inquisitor to 25 and I’ve been finding the quests engaging, the characters interesting, and the moral choices to be over all well done (though some are fairly arbitrary).

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| January 20, 2012
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Ocera – Interview with a Self-Pubbed Author

Ocera launched on December 4, 2011, and we have an exclusive interview with the author, Joelle D. Haskell, about the process, the characters in Ocera and more!

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| January 19, 2012
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No Girls on the Internet

It’s a tired trope by now, a standard response by boys who think they’re being witty that almost everyone I know is bored of.

Women don’t like games. Women don’t use technology. Women don’t like comic books. It’s boring, stop that.

It’s insulting.

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| January 16, 2012
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Faking Lesbianism in Pop Culture and Patriarchal Bargains

So I was listening to Tatu today, which some of you might remember from around 2001-2002, two faux lesbian girls who went out there, looked cute (one was femme, one was femme with a short hair cut), they kissed. They touched one another. They behaved like a couple.

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| January 14, 2012
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Proposals and Societal Expectation

Men and women have a lot of set expectations, in relationships and in life. These things that categorize how we are expected to behave can be seen as a helpful guideline, but often times they’re so constrictive that it feels more like a regulation.

That’s why I recently saw a tweet that kind of upset me. Leigh Alexander was talking about video game / geek proposals.

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