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<\/a><\/p>\nNow I wonder why the creator of this post felt the need to represent this level of gamer with a female figure and on top of that a chubby female figure. One might get the impression that this kind of games are silly and therefore meant to be played by woman and the rest of the games that require a minimum of different skills are for true gamers, male gamers. I found this in a way a little bit offensive and I don\u2019t even consider myself a gamer. I don\u2019t think I know a lot of female gamers, and it\u2019s true girls and women are less involved in video games than boys and men (you can verify this fact just by asking to your circle of friend which of them play online game, it would most likely be men), and when they do they usually prefer different type of games, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are not there or that we can deny the increasing amount of girls\/women that are getting more and more interested in online games.<\/p>\n
Another issue I\u2019d like to point out is how we can see once again the construction of Masculinity in this case. With the simple act of placing a woman in this comic one can easily get the impression that this kind of games are somehow girly or even weak and therefore not masculine at all, so if you are a men and enjoy playing these games you might be considered lest manly, less masculine.<\/p>\n
So, what do you think? What comes to your mind when you first see this image? Do you think the author could have represented the level of \u201ccasual games\u201d with a different figure or it was needed to be done this way to make the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this opportunity I\u2019d like to write about something that really caught my attention while surfing in the 9gag website I was telling the other day. I ran into this post called \u201cthe videogame entertainment curve\u201d and it attempts to … Continue reading