Laura Bates: Everyday Sexism at Work. We have not yet achieved gender equality in the UK workplace.
We know this to be indisputably true thanks to statistics that reveal a stubbornly persistent wage gap between men and women and show that women continue to be underrepresented in top jobs. The Home Office website, citing data from the Office for National Statistics, states that "The pay gap between full-time men's and women's median earnings stands at 10.5%, whereas the overall gap when comparing the pay of all men and women in work is 20.2%. " It goes on to acknowledge that "discrimination may still be an important factor" in explaining the disparity. Meanwhile, a study by the Chartered Management Institute just last year revealed that the gender pay gap between male and female managers had more than doubled to £10,546 in a single year.
GFMode. Borderlands 2: Gearbox reveals the Mechromancer's "girlfriend mode" Update: You may have noticed Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford speaking out against the "girlfriend mode" nickname on Twitter.
As reported below, the Mechromancer skill tree that helps video game newcomers is formally called Best Friends Forever. But Borderlands 2 lead designer John Hemingway referred to it numerous times as "girlfriend mode". Sexual Harassment in Online Gaming Stirs Anger. Under the Beret » The Readercon Thing. Man disagrees with woman, makes game about punching her.
Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games Vs. The Internet. By John Walker on June 13th, 2012 at 4:00 pm.
The question of sexism in videogames really oughtn’t be a question at all. Videogames are rife with the thickest seam of sexism, and have been since the first had front covers on the cassettes. Not just in the games themselves, but in the culture surrounding it, from the prevalence – and misogynistic reaction to – ‘booth babes’, to the wretched response received in all corners of the internet when people attempt to discuss it. Misandry in videogames? Oh grow the f–k up. (This is another edition of , a weekly opinion piece column on GameFront.
Check back every week for more. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not reflect those of GameFront.) A recent Kickstarter project caused a bit of an outcry this week due mostly to the disproportionate backlash perpetuated against its founder. Girl Gamers & Competitive Gaming Community - PMS. We here at PMS clan have a very explicit mission statement -- provide a competitive, fun and positive environment to female gamers.
It’s a shame that for that environment to exist, gamers needed to develop a clan to create it. The gaming community can be harsh and unwilling to accept women into their ranks, partially because the media they consume is reminding them why women don’t belong here. Gaming still feels developed by men, for men, and that leads to a lot of negative portrayals of women in video games as well as negative actions towards women in gaming. I studied the media through my college tenure because I wanted to understand video games’ impact on society and the messages it presents.
Harassment via Wikipedia Vandalism. As some of you may know a harassment campaign is being waged against me because of my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project on Kickstarter.
This coordinated attack was launched by various online video game forums and has included attempts to get my accounts banned, a torrent of hate on YouTube, plus countless threats of violence, death, sexual assault and rape. As part of that intimidation effort the Wikipedia page about me was vandalized with misogynist language, pornography and racial slurs. I went back and forth about whether or not to share this publicly because I don’t want to inadvertently encourage this kind of behavior or scare other women into staying silent out of fear something similar may happen to them.
But ultimately I’ve decided I’m going to document and strategically share what is happening to me because these types of online harassment tactics are used against women, feminists and people from oppressed and marginalized groups every day. Related posts: Harassment, Misogyny and Silencing on YouTube. June 7, 2012.
Penny Arcade vs Rape Culture « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows. Trigger warning: rape.
Rape Culture In Gaming « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows. About a week ago, I wrote a post on Penny Arcade vs.
Rape Culture, which sent my blog traffic skyrocketing after it was linked on Reddit. I apologize if this is too personal, but can you expand on "non-consent fantasies" and how it is different from "rape fantasy" or how it differs from, well, rape. Elevatorgate « Freethought Kampala. Elevatorgate is the unprecedented INTERNET WAR that erupted after Rebecca Watson (above) posted a video in which she discussed an ordeal she experienced in an elevator while attending the World Atheist Convention which took place in Dublin, Ireland, from June 3rd to June 5th, 2011.
During the months of July and August 2011, the atheist-skeptic blogosphere was ablaze with accusations, counter-accusations, verbal fights, moral declarations and insults as hundreds of bloggers and millions thousands of their readers tried to determine whose assessment of the events narrated by Watson best represented the facts at hand.