February 27th, 2007
by
Liz Henry
There’s some really good stuff going on in Peaseblossom’s journal. I’ve admired her posts on various gaming forums for a while! Pulp, gender, genre. Now if only we could have the feminist discussion without the enormous hijacking attempts? Peaseblossom suggests a feminist gaming group blog. Make it and we’ll link up to it! Maybe gamers will catch the excellent wave that feminist comics bloggers are riding!
Another excellent post, too, at Yudishthira’s
Dice, on cheesecake cover art, a good explanation for men by a man why demeaning women is bad for men. (Lord knows no one cares if it’s bad for women… except us shrill, nagging, nitpicky, lesbobot hussies.) But seriously it’s a good post and the comments thread also has some reasonable thought-provoking stuff. If only the Yudishthira’s Dice dude would create a female net alter-ego and just say the same stuff he normally would. He should be careful to create a realistic persona with a little bit of backstory to her and online presence. If he wrote as a woman for a while he might learn some interesting things about what men are “allowed” to do in argument that women aren’t.
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Actually, in terms of group blogs there’s Killer Betties (I guest blog there). There’s also Jade Reporting which is a group link blog.
One day I want to start a feminist/anti-oppression gaming site (forums, blogs, reviews, the whole shebang) but I need to get my other project off the ground first. And probably make sure that I have a team of people willing to help me launch it, because there always seems to be the problem of people saying they’ll help out and then not having the time…
Yud’s dice dude here,
Actually, I have been online as a woman in the past. I spent the better part of a year (in 99, I think) with a good chunk of my online time being done through a female alter-ego.
It was a shocking, horrifying, and enlightening thing to do. I was freakishly horrified by the way things I said were dismissed on their face, how every conversation became a series of personal attacks or propositions, and how on every MUSH, chat room, or IRC channel at least two or three boys would assume I was only there to have net sex. Specifically to have net sex with them.
Anyway, I just wanted to say keep up the good work. Blogs like this one are important in a way that my little natterings can’t even touch.
Hey! I’m actually very excited that Mo of Sin Aesthetics has taken the idea of a feminist gaming blog and run with it; hopefully you’ll have that link sometime soon.
I’m also very excited that a couple of people in the course of the discussion linked over to this blog. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before! I’m reading through the archives right now.
Tekanji – Nifty, thanks for the links! They seem more online-gaming focused, but it’s all interconnected.
Brand – Oh! That explains why you get it so well.
Pease – Sin Aesthetics looks amazing. I read down it a little bit this morning. Super awesome rpg theory stuff, just what I love, all about collaboration and building interesting social structures.
Liz: They’re video game focused, actually, not just the online variety :p But I definitely agree that it’s all interconnected… a lot of times JR features posts about other forms of gaming simply because everything being said applies.
Not a group blog, but mer writes about rpgs often talks about gender issues on her blog.
I do wonder, though, if it wouldn’t be worth it for me to start up a forums for anti-oppression gamers of all varieties. I just don’t want it to turn into what happened with my last forum experiment… no one signed up!
We have http://forums.feministsf.net, with 300+ users signed up. But little activity lately. I’d love to see more anti-oppression work on different media.
My first internet experience was through a university server, a friend’s dad was a professor, we went in late at night and gamed in a Star Wars MUSH. I had a female character, and… got hit on, told how to behave in-character, had my ideas dismissed out of hand, and so on. Since then I have always been in my true male persona online, it’s less headaches that way, I’m too wussy to put up with that shit.
Good luck with your feminist gamer group blog!
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