It’s not uncommon to see sexual harassments or threatens on MMOs or game forums towards female player. What makes females playing games such a big issue? They are just like everyone else wanted to play game. The prejudice of female gamer is directly related to the female figure been under presented in videogame, media in general and in the society. The boy club stuff and some of the wrongheaded male players has driven women away, or at least trying to keep female the other within videogames and probably to stay in kitchen.
In regard to the Team Unicorn’s “G33k & G4m3r Girls” video and comments about fake geek girls, the fact is how you perceives them strongly depends on what you believed in. The meaning of the content is solely relying on their audiences to interpret them through reference to their own feelings and relationships with the images. I can’t say no to people who argue that there are girls play games to grab attention, but that’s just the minority and there are far more serious female gamers. The reason for people only sees these “fake geek girls” is because only who needs approval will stand out and the real ones don’t have to and probably don’t even care. In fact, in many MMO environments the most successful and skilled female gamer will tend to use a male character in order to hide their gender. This is not only due to the fact that male characters have higher fighting ability but also to be treated by other players fairly and respectfully.
There are only 2 major aspects of women characters which stand out in most the games which is their leg and breast. Sounds sad, but most of the times their intelligence and bravery were never mentioned. I guess the market demand which is driven by Freud’s psychosexual theory still has a louder voice than feminists who calls for equality. Many of the well educated people, not only women, are considering themselves as feminist. All they wanted was to have some respect for females especially within the videogame culture. The presentations of underdressed female are so common where it becomes a stereotype. Many of the times unless it gets points out you probability fails to realise it. Prejudice doesn’t disappear in a day, but takes time and effort. A good point to start would be stop drawing gender lines, make women comfortable within the industry.
FTVMS 212 & 328, 2014 - Videogames 