Zoë Quinn's The Fine Young Capitalists

Mariah Burton Nelson’s article “I Won; I’m Sorry” discusses the complex and controversial topics of the roles and attitudes of successful female athletes She provides examples such as, Venus Williams and John Macenroe. Both were great tennis players in their day and both were known for having a short temper. Both athletes had different treatments because of gender stereotypes. This type of inequality is what drives Mariah in her article and the woman sports report. Just by looking at the first page of the website I can tell that this is a website that is empowering toward women. The colors, cloths, and almost all of the article if not all articles are all focused on women sports. Through the pictures that are presented on the website one can

Sadly, the gaming industry has been criticized for lacking complex characterization, especially when it comes to female characters. While this complaint is valid, and it cannot be denied that there is a surplus of overly sexualized one dimensional female characters in gaming, the industry has begun moving away from

A more in-depth study may look at video games from a Marxist point of view, characterizing the games as a modern day “opiate of the masses” with multi-billion dollar corporations publishing the games to keep the proletariat occupied and oblivious to their plights. A feminist may cite the standard role of female video game characters as being the “damsel in distress” and even strong female characters usually being relegated to sex symbol status.

The organization tries to exercise their moral authority. Now(In their time), they want to reform. They want to have clean water, trash collection, hot lunches at schools, playgrounds, public libraries, and sanitation. Those women volunteer for time to create tons of local organization. They did it.

Conference coordinator Samantha Jo Dato said, “It’s about honoring what the trans movement was, what it looked like, where it came from. We’re here to remember that we are all in a marginalized situation and these are our roots.”

There were many signs equating gender justice with racial justice. Costumes designed to look like vaginas were proudly displayed. But does equating vaginas with feminism really represent gender equality? What about the transgender people who were in attendance supporting the cause? Do these costumes accurately represent

In the reading “Gendering Social Capital: Bowling in Women’s Leagues?” by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, they suggest women and men are segregated by gender in social organizations causing a gap in the social capitol of men and women, furthering the inequality of women. They look at 50 societies worldwide and compare the number of men and women involved in associations. Some findings are obvious and looking at factors not discussed make the number presented less important, and findings more questionable. Table one shows the types of organizations men and women belong to, and the percentages of each gender in each group. Worldwide involvement in political parties, sports, peace movements, and professional associations overwhelmingly contain

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Shouldn’t this generation be required to play Pac-Man, Asteroids, Galaga, Centipede Pit Fall or Frogger before they get to play Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto or Halo? The games these days have real life graphics and by some can be considered offensive and too graphic, having an (EC) early childhood to (AO) an adult only rating (Entertainment Software Rating Board). Games went from being a nice hobby to a young kid to the average gamer now being an average age of 34 years old. The popularity of game usage is detrimental to the American society, changing our nation to

The next aspect we’ll be looking at, is the advertisement point of view of gender equality within sports and sporting events. Women's sports never receive as much advertisement as men’s athlete teams do. You can use sports such as worms soccer for an example, along with UFC for an example of this and college and professional females basketball teams. 
For an example of this in a larger aspect, just imagine that someone offered for you to go to the NRG Stadium in Houston Texas where the stadium that had over 70,000 fans watching the 2016 D1 men’s NCCA championship basketball game for March Madness was taking place. It was a crazy game, with what you thought a crazy come from behind win was about to take place for North Carolina, and to make

Gaming as an industry has been evolving over the past few years to be more inclusive. Prior to this shift, the industry has been riddled with discrimination against many different individuals based on sex, gender, and race. While this still occurs today we have many companies and leaders making a push to diversify and include all the members of the gaming community. Gabrielle Toledano is the chief talent officer at EA, also know at Electronic Arts, and she is one of the many leaders pushing for diversity and inclusion in our virtual spaces.

Whose intent was originally planned to solve problems with gaming journalism, however is now seen as a movement that discriminates against women. Intel a company who supported the Gamergate notice that the victory of the Gamergate was a duped by gamers into supporting misogynist movement. Leading to many, more enlighten mind to see that these Gamergate only want to play games that is made for the public’s interests. This was an intriguing movement during 2004 from the Net to the News but this also comes to mind the behavior and purpose of these gamers make it easy to forget that they are daring. Maybe some could be one day become a

In response from all these criticisms, many gaming companies published fourteen different articles on their official website to write about the shift in demographic in the gaming community: The death of the "gamer.” Eventually, a significant amount of gamers started to boycott on theses gaming sites, and contracting their advertisers. Next, this situation brought in the Feminists side, who argued that gamers were mad for all the different reasons. Many well known feminists, like Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and Zoe Quinn, argued that gamers were sexist, and it was reasonable position to take. GamersGate started with one woman’s personal life leaked out on the internet, and escalated to men on the internet slut shaming Zoe Quinn. An enmourse backlash was received after many feminists who spoke out for GamerGate were hacked, doxed, cyber bullied, and received death threats from anonymous trolls. This incident led to the third spectrum of GamerGate. Many people believe that Gamergate is nothing but women hating on

Gender disparity in video games is a topic that both scholars and major gaming icons have discussed before. However, the topic recently resurfaced with the upsurging population of female gamers. The integration of females was a spectacle that caused a massive culture shock. Many members of the gaming community were unsure how to handle the change and took to discriminating females. While discrimination may seem unimportant, many scholars and icons believe it is a prominent factor of gender disparity: an environment which typically favors males, a hostile or “toxic” atmosphere, and repeated stereotypes all manifest certain behaviors of both genders that can cause a disparity to grow. Although some sources claim gender disparity is evident in gaming as a whole, others insist the novelty of female discrimination in video games is less prominent due to a more leveled percentage of male-to-females in gaming. However, both agreed that the competitive gaming community is a different story. Time and time again the competitive gaming community was mentioned for its exclusion of women due to biased and misogynistic members who sexualize and degrade females. These members believe women are inferiors that encroach on their territory with unskilled and seductive natures. Therefore, for the females in the gaming community, their actions will shape the future of women in the competitive gaming community. The change in female treatment is detrimental to gender disparity. Not only because

The portrayal of men and women in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies. This topics is discuss in terms of sexism in video gaming. Especially, women are underrepresented or use as objectification in mainstream games. Women in video games are generally, as a rule of thumb, killed, raped, abused or rescued by the male heroes. This is extremely sad to see because the role of women in society is changing compare to ten years ago. Women has been proven themselves to be stronger and tough in different fields such as sports, politics, education but the representation hasn’t change.