Significant Other – Gender Signifiers in Video Games
by Anjin Anhut
http://howtonotsuckatgamedesign.com/?p=7852Depictions of gender in video games generally don't work. Actually in most of geek culture they suck – yeah, I'm looking at you comic book industry. Why? Because they create hostility between two parties who really don't need to be at each other's throats.
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Female gamers and LGBTIQ gamers are here to stay, which is wonderful, enriching, progressive... and admittedly – for male caucasian heterosexual 29-year-olds like me – also challenging. We need to drastically reform the way we depict gender in our oh so mature and oh so progressive medium, people.
