It seems like nobody has mentioned the point that men actually like videogames more than women because they are biologically more inclined to enjoy them. There's a pretty fantastic study by Stanford Universitys School of Medicine, which hooked up 11 men and 11 women to FMRI machines and scanned their brains while they…
Whew... very tired after reading this thread. Lots of strong opinions which makes me too scared to add any cents of mine, so I won't :P All I can say is from my personal experience growing up with an INCREDIBLY smart / loving / busting-ass mother (at times it was just my mom, sister (who is also an amazingly strong and…
There are many great points in this thread but I feel like people are dialing in most their ideas at an 11. While some of the comments are a little sensationalized, at their core they still bring out great points. I've been talking to my wife about this thread and topic in general and while what I had mentioned about her…
A couple of points I'd like to address: First of all, there is a ton of research being done on females and video games. If you've got access to scientific magazines, you can find dozens of studies in minutes. This, in combination with the Tropes vs. women project, raises a problem, namely that Sarkeesian's work up to this…