>It's an interesting topic, and one without answers, I guess: Are men simply
>more violent? Men commit the majority of violent crimes. If so, is that a
>product of conditioning? Have we raised women not to be violent? In so
>doing, have we also raised women to avoid conflict, or have we taught them
>different, perhaps better, ways to resolve conflict? Or, are men just
>inherently more violent? It's sort of an impossible issue to discuss, since
>emotions run high on either side of the question, all these political issues
>being wrapped up in it.
my vote would be 80% conditioning, 20% genes...
and yeah, i think the main thing is that the upbringing of females tend
to include more reasonable ways of resolving conflict. but i may be
wrong....
>
>At any rate, I would find any effort to do "girl video games" sort of
>offensive. What would they be about? Some kind of daring, high-speed
>embroidery race? ;) I'd rather see efforts to understand -- and perhaps
ferheavenssake, no! ;-) but perhaps more games where other forms of
conflict, and other form of handeling conflicts, could be more
important. dammit, a gun is a poor conflict solver, in real life,
so why don't we try to make video games involving just a little
more brain and a little less guns? video games where cooperation is
the key to success, would that be possible?
>reduce -- gender differences in our society, rather than exploit them for
>profit, thereby validating and solidifying them. But exactly how you'd do
>that in the case of video games, I don't know.
>
>This is one of those strange topics where, as a feminist, I find myself
>sitting on the fence, I guess. I end up defending women's rights to play
>with the toys of violence that men have enjoyed for eons, and admiring women
>who cross gender lines to enjoy traditionally male subcultures. And yet I
i'm all with you on that! and i admire men doing the same gender crossing!
>abhor our society's real, non-playful violence, which is often, after all,
>turned against women. Our play violence may or may not worsen our real
>violence; I suspect it does. Beats me what the answer is. I'm not about to
>give up my John Woo flicks, though ;)
neh, i'm just happy that my wife is almost as grat a fan of splatter
movies as i am :-)
have a nice day :-)
tb
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