Comments on: On women-oriented gaming communities http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-05-07_595 Because we care about stuff Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Zach http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-05-07_595#comment-2520 Zach Fri, 11 May 2007 16:36:33 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-05-07_595#comment-2520 Hey, thanks for linking to my post. Sorry I didn't reply sooner; I've been buried under a mountain of finals for the last couple of weeks. I think women/feminist oriented gaming communities are important in terms of engendering dialogue that otherwise gets silenced or ignored in mainstream gaming communities. I've been meaning to post about the commenting culture at Kotaku (and, for that matter, Joystiq) for a while, as I get pretty mad whenever I brave the comment section on a post involving women in gaming (or sexuality in gaming, or race in gaming, etc). The post on Cerise is what pushed me over the top, as it managed to contain nearly everything that angers me about mainstream comment sections in a fairly short thread. Hey, thanks for linking to my post. Sorry I didn’t reply sooner; I’ve been buried under a mountain of finals for the last couple of weeks.

I think women/feminist oriented gaming communities are important in terms of engendering dialogue that otherwise gets silenced or ignored in mainstream gaming communities. I’ve been meaning to post about the commenting culture at Kotaku (and, for that matter, Joystiq) for a while, as I get pretty mad whenever I brave the comment section on a post involving women in gaming (or sexuality in gaming, or race in gaming, etc). The post on Cerise is what pushed me over the top, as it managed to contain nearly everything that angers me about mainstream comment sections in a fairly short thread.

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