still lacking

[asterroc]

Some day even famous gamers will grow up, and on that day they will suddenly understand why they don't have more girls in gaming.



Since Gabe made the post about it on the PA news/frontpage, I'm considering emailing him about it, however it's Khoo who has much more sense about ... well, anything. I'm not really *upset* about it, per se, more disappointed. I'll think about it for a couple days and then see how I feel and maybe write to Khoo then. And yes, I do have his email address - a Google search seems to imply it's a well-kept secret, but there are honors that come with Omeganaut status. No, I'm not going to post it here now. Ask me later if you want it.

ETA: After thinking about it (see rosefox's comment below), I doubt I'm going to email Khoo, and instead I'm sorely tempted to buy one and wear it at inappropriate times.

Comments

[rosefox]

Whereas I assumed you were posting it as "Hey, nifty gift idea!" and I was about to send it out to people I thought would appreciate it. If I still wore tshirts that say things, I would buy one.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I'm of two minds about it, hence not immediately flying off the handle and emailing the all-powerful Khoo. On the one hand, yeah, it is funny, and I can also see how it could be empowering to geek chicks. On the other hand, it's really immature and is one of the reason there's so few girls in fields where this shirt would get a laugh out of people. I'm torn.

This semester I'm advising a group of gamers at my school, and I'm really torn between ranting about it to them, and buying myself one and wearing it to a meeting. Hm, thinking about it more, I think the latter would get people to start thinking about their stereotypes and their own thought process more than ranting about it would.

*sigh* I need to stop thinking and get back to grading. You can send on to people or not as you wish - I do not presume to tell people how to fight sexism, only that they should, and I'm pretty sure that you agree with me on the important parts of that one. :-P

[kadath.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I won't buy anything from PA.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

See above comments and ETA.

From my taste of them at PAX and being in the Omegathon, I really got the feeling that Tycho and Gabe are ignorant but not malicious, Robert Khoo (the real power to the group) will do whatever it takes to make them succeed (and expanding the market to girls would do so), and Travis (in charge of the Omegathon) really DOES want to bring more girls in but is clueless as to how to do so.

I did NOT get the impression that they were hopeless, or else I probably wouldn't even read them. It does seem to me that if I bought the shirt myself and wore it in gaming situations it might open the door to discussions about gender in gaming.