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Things We Saw Today: AMC Wants A Zombie For President
In the ongoing battle between AMC (and other networks) against Dish Network, the cable channel has started a viral campaign called, “A Zombie for President.” Wonder how he’ll do in the debates. (via...
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On Franchise Fiction and Women
Women read comics. Anyone at all engaged in social media knows this. Women read comics and are a driving force behind fandom. I think I could call them the driving force behind fandom and put up a...
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Geena Davis on I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched
[Davis noted] that the bulk of those shows was spent on the men trying to stop the women from using their magical powers. “This happened in several of my marriages,” Davis said wryly. — Geena Davis on...
View ArticleSome of New York’s Only Female Cab Drivers Talk About the Job
“What’s a girl doing here?” from Narratively on Vimeo. There are 46,000 cabs in New York City, and a commensurately large number of cab drivers, but only one hundred seventy of them are women....
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What Women Want (In Female Video Game Protagonists)
The Escapist’s Shamus Young recently penned a thoughtful article about Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series, and how he believes the lack of female protagonists in games is a more...
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“But Alas, She Is A Woman”: How Dishonored Uses Gender Roles To Tell A Story
I beat Dishonored on Tuesday. I began my second playthrough on Wednesday. Suffice it to say, I like this game. A lot. Stealth games make me go weak in the knees, and this is one of the finest of such...
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Hey Mass Effect Fans, Bioware Finally Reveals Female Turians
Our much beloved Mass Effect series is set in a lovingly crafted and intricate universe, where an ambitiously large number of alien races coexist (or at the very least tolerate each other as long as...
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Election Recap: U.S. Senate Will Reconvene With Record Setting Percentage of...
Right, right, victories for women and minorities in the polls last night, but we all know that the victories of the internet come first. Ladies and gentlemen, you are looking at the majority content...
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Wreck-It Ralph: How Video Games Should Be?
In 108 minutes, Wreck-It Ralph accomplishes something the entire video game industry has failed to achieve for more than 30 years: Wreck-It Ralph contains more positive and nuanced female characters...
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History Is Made: There Was a Line for the Women’s Bathroom… in the U.S. Senate
For the first time, there was a traffic jam in the Senate women’s bathroom. There were five of us in there, and there are only two stalls. – Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Ah, the unforeseen consequences of...
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A Look at Beast Boxing Turbo, or, That Time A Developer Worried About Women...
Earlier this week, I was contacted by Gordon Luk, lead developer of newly-released indie game Beast Boxing Turbo. He had come across the article I wrote on what women want in female game protagonists,...
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Dragon Age‘s Head Writer Explains the Value of Women on His Writing Team
We were sitting down to peer review a plot— a peer review being the point where a plot has had its first writing pass completed, and whoever wrote it sits down with the other writers as well as...
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Why Games With Female Protagonists Don’t Sell, and What It Says About The...
So, here’s a question: why are female video game protagonists so rare? Their absence is palpable, and we talk often of how we want to see more of them, but the why of it is typically addressed with...
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Geek Girl Performance Anxiety
Only two panels into this comic and my inner voice was already screaming “YES. YES EVERY TIME I PLAY IN FRONT OF STRANGERS.” See also: “I better not choose to be the singer in our Rock Band group even...
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Introducing: The Hawkeye Initiative
Something special happened on Tumblr this weekend, as many of you reached out to tell us. To those of you who did, I want to say I already follow all of these people so relax we got this thank you....
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Google Global Impact Awards Grants Geena Davis Institute $1.2 Million to...
Google uses its Global Impact Awards to award grants to small institutions for whom a mere $1.2 million (“mere” when you compare it to the full extent of Google’s wallet) is a huge impact, and places...
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Why Talking About Character Gender Still Matters (Even Though It Shouldn’t)
Last weekend, I played Omega, the latest DLC for Mass Effect 3. It’s good. Not great. Solidly good. But while it’s not the most memorable DLC of the series (Lair of the Shadow Broker still reigns...
View ArticleLady Scientists Promote The Field With Make-Up, Dancing, & Actual Science...
Remember that video, Science: It’s a Girl Thing? Yeah. It was terrible and the European Union Commission spent a lot of money making it. So a group of Bristol women getting their PhDs in neuroscience,...
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The Last of Us Insists on Including Both Its Main Characters in Cover Art...
I believe there’s a misconception that if you put a girl or a woman on the cover, the game will sell less. I know I’ve been in discussions where we’ve been asked to push Ellie to the back and everyone...
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Hasbro To Unveil Gender-Neutral Easy-Bake Oven
Two weeks ago an eighth grader named McKenna Pope made waves when she created a Change.org petition to convince Hasbro to make a more gender neutral Easy-Bake Oven so that she could buy one for her...
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