Genderpolitics in Games
Thanks to a game blog (Destructoid, or Kotaku, I do not remember) I came across the Border House Blog, a blog about questions of gender, feminism and LGBT in games. One of the articles is about WoW:
I suddenly saw social ideas writ large in the game’s concepts. The racial undertones that often gird roleplaying games where humans are coincidentally European and other real-world human cultures are given pigeon holed non-human races. The way even female heroes are shown wearing very revealing or skimpy “robes” and “armour,” or the occasionally poor writing for female characters. All of that analysis became impossible for me to ignore because something dramatic had shifted in my life. I was now well outside the target demographic of games like WoW.
I think we will have a course about females in games, but this blog shows nicely that it simply is not done with putting a generic female body into a game to address the issues.
Definitely a blog to keep an eye on, even more with my bachelor game coming up.
[1]: http://borderhouseblog.com[2]: http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=2703Thanks to a game blog (Destructoid, or Kotaku, I do not remember) I came across the [Border House Blog][1], a blog about questions of gender, feminism and LGBT in games. One of the articles is about [WoW][2]:> I suddenly saw social ideas writ large in the game’s concepts. The racial undertones that often gird roleplaying games where humans are coincidentally European and other real-world human cultures are given pigeon holed non-human races. The way even female heroes are shown wearing very revealing or skimpy “robes” and “armour,” or the occasionally poor writing for female characters. All of that analysis became impossible for me to ignore because something dramatic had shifted in my life. I was now well outside the target demographic of games like WoW.I think we will have a course about females in games, but this blog shows nicely that it simply is not done with putting a generic female body into a game to address the issues.Definitely a [blog to keep an eye on][1], even more with my bachelor game coming up.
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