Aram Zucker-Scharff

No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry: Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering content
The gaming industry gets more terrible daily and the internet is full of awful people.

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But it’s awfully depressing that, in the summer of 2014, when 99% of American women use birth control, we can’t just come out and say that most women use birth control for sex. And that we like said sex – a lot.

I can promise you this, too: focusing on the non-orgasmic reasons women use contraception will not magically change conservatives’ minds about the issue.

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– “Women like sex. Stop making ‘health’ excuses for why we use birth control”

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it’s easy to see where to start. Move away from the visual emphasis on objectified body parts and start illustrating women the way they want to be viewed in real life:

As people.

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– How sexist video game animators keep failing women.

“Not being sure what story you’re in anymore is a different experience depending on whether or not you were expecting to be the hero of that story. Low-status men, and especially women and girls, often don’t have that expectation. We expect to be forgettable supporting characters, or sometimes, if we’re lucky, attainable objects to be slung over the hero’s shoulder and carried off the end of the final page. The only way we get to be in stories is to be stories ourselves. If we want anything interesting at all to happen to us we have to be a story that happens to somebody else, and when you’re a young girl looking for a script, there are a limited selection of roles to choose from.”

– I Was A Manic Pixie Dream Girl.