>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
>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.
just in case: i'm not really concerned about stupid(?) game-makers not
being able to earn money on the female market segment that was just my
smartass way of asking the question i guess... the real problem is of
course that computer technology is dominated by males (hell, the
percentage of girls/women) takin a higher education in computer
science here in good, old social democratic .no is actually going
DOWN!), and that video/computer games has been/are a major entry point
for young people to the world of computers... so, one part of the
answer to the question "how do we get more females into computers/
computer science/well paid and important jobs using computers?" could
maybe perhaps be "introducing more girls to computers at an early
age, by getting them to play games on the damn things!" and i said
ONE part of the answer....
as to "why should we care if girls learn to use computers?" i guess
the answers would be along the lines of
a) because it's fair?
b) because it would make a better society?
c) because it would make better technology?
or something like that.....
and or course, as a man i would love to find games that could appeal to
something else than my urge to-go-out-and-kill-things-for-supper-and-
defend-my-male-honors. and i would like my child/children(?) to be able
to find video games about something else than destroying giant robots....
any good games around, btw? of the not-so-much-hack'n'slash-and-maybe-
even-a-little-brain type of thing?
have a nice day :-)
tb
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