More Women Playing Video Games

Paul Nelson wrote an article about the growing number of women who play video games. Being a woman and a gamer myself, I clicked the link to it with much enthusiasm. Said enthusiasm was quickly extinguished by the inevitable genderfail.

“Hughes says most of the girls there get introduced to gaming by their boyfriends, and then become serious gamers themselves.”

As with all gaming articles, the primary focus must be on male gamers. Even the image included with the article is one that is meant to appeal to males rather than the gender that it was allegedly written about: a woman in a skimpy tank top and skin-tight pants, with her legs spread apart ever so slightly. Because, of course, when women play video games they don’t dress for comfort; they dress to appease the male gaze! In the end, it’s not an article about women who enjoy video games, but about women who take up gaming to please the men in their lives.