Femme Fatal — Female participants only SSF4 tournament
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by icycalm » 30 Mar 2010 01:35
Femme Fatal — Female participants only SSF4 tournament
by EightEyes » 30 Mar 2010 03:45
icycalm wrote:Do women get their own separate chess championships?
by NighAligned » 31 Mar 2010 22:06
Natalia Pogonina wrote:Different tastes and priorities are probably part of the answer, but they are also closely connected with the other reasons. For instance, priorities are largely affected by social stereotypes and upbringing, so if (theoretically) we change them (e.g. encourage boys to play dolls and girls to study chess), we may see a completely opposite result.
by icycalm » 12 Apr 2010 17:50
zinger wrote:Hey icy, how's it going?
Is there some scientific literature that you could point me to regarding women's lacking intellectual capacity? Well anything to help me distinguish sociological effects from biological ones and get a good grasp of how they are related. Good psychology books in other words, I guess?
Thanks man.
zinger
by icycalm » 12 Apr 2010 18:11
by icycalm » 12 Apr 2010 18:32
by icycalm » 12 Apr 2010 18:49
perhaps [women] are too intelligent to spend more time at something that is just a game. Maybe the question should be, are men too stupid or too immature to quit obsessing on chess? Then maybe we wouldn't have this topic getting abused over and over again. "Chess is a sign of lack of intelligence" -- now wouldn't that be a kick in the head?
by icycalm » 12 Apr 2010 22:36
by amadeus » 12 Apr 2010 23:55
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 02:08
Iris wrote:I think you'll have a lot of new people to help if you wait it out.
by zinger » 13 Apr 2010 07:45
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 12:40
zinger wrote:what I'm after I guess is any clues to why gender roles isn't an issue of how we bring up our kids alone.
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 12:53
Einstein wrote:As long as all international conflicts are not subject to arbitration and the enforcement of decisions arrived at by arbitration is not guaranteed, and as long as war production is not prohibited we may be sure that war will follow upon war. Unless our civilization achieves the moral strength to overcome this evil, it is bound to share the fate of former civilizations: decline and decay.
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 13:03
Freud wrote:In this context we would point out that men should be at greater pains than heretofore to form a superior class of independent thinkers, unamenable to intimidation and fervent in the quest of truth
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 13:04
In this context we would point out that men should be at greater pains than heretofore to form a superior class of independent thinkers, unamenable to intimidation and fervent in the quest for power
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 17:09
by icycalm » 13 Apr 2010 23:42
by amadeus » 15 Apr 2010 17:39
Meggan Scavio. Runs GDC.
Kim Swift. Designed Portal.
by abe » 15 Apr 2010 19:19
And I could actually add a whole bunch more ladies doing amazing things with games (Jen, Diane, Cat, Sophie, Robin, Heather, Sarah, Claire, Rita, Susan, Merci, Regina and Tracy, for instance and for starters).
Margaret Robertson
Living legend.
If it were up to me, in creating any list, I would take a number - say 50, and a field - say games, and then pick out the top 25 men and the top 25 women, highlighting whatever it is they're doing. Because that's called fairness.
the longer we continue to publish lists containing all-men or nearly-all-men, the longer we propagate the broken image and insulting idea that women aren't as good, or as important, as men.
Many women just haven't had the chance yet: they haven't had the encouragement, the education, the freedom, the support, the role models, the contacts, the friends in high places, the opportunities and the finances that their male counterparts often get by default, by tradition and by homophily.
It's not right and it needs to change. Monocultures are evolutionarily a dead end: game people, take note.
by abe » 15 Apr 2010 19:33
Games That Make Me Cry
this is going to be embarrassing.
it’s going to be embarrassing for you.
it’s going to be embarrassing for all of us,
I’m here today to fight a myth.
That myth is this: Games Aren’t Art Because Games Can’t Make You Cry.
If it’s someone with a rather narrow-minded view of the gaming audience, it’ll probably go like this: Games Aren’t Art Because Games Can’t Appeal To Girls.
defeating it requires a terrible, horrifying weapon.
I’m going to tell you about the games that have made me cry, which I hope will lay the myth to rest,
Which means that when Vivi does finally find his home, it’s the place where he also finally understands that he’s not real, that his parents are dead, not missing, that they weren’t his real parents anyway, that he was built to serve the bad guys and that he probably won’t live to see his tenth birthday.
So what happens next? I cry, is what happens next.
The next game that made me cry wasn’t even a game.
but seeing this screenshot, all my hopes for Link’s triumphant return were dashed. The end of Ocarina had stripped him of his home, his love and his only friend, and now the new game was going to strip him of the only thing he had left – his identity. And that was enough to choke me up.