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Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp

Posted by simoniker on from the camp-krusty-for-gamegirls dept.

wiredbeat2000 writes "The part of my brain that led me into the Women's Studies department in college is glowing tonight, after reading about a new computer game camp set up for teenage girls. The News-Gazette Online has a story about the camps, which are called the UI Girls' Adventures in Mathematics, Engineering and Science (G.A.M.E.S.) Camp. The story comes on the heels of today's announcement by Entertainment Software Association that game demographics are skewed differently than you'd expect."

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  1. as a high-schooler in honors classes ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't see the point. Granted I'm a guy, but no girl in my classes has ever had an issue with raising her hand and shouting out an answer. The days of "girls being intimidated by boys in the classroom" are over - if anything, *we're* afraid of *them*.

  2. Re:What in the!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >The part of my brain that led me into the Women's Studies department...

    I truely truely hope that a much larger and intelligent part of your brain led you out of that biased, dead end, self serving department...

    Here is a short course in Women's studies:
    1. men are bad
    2. men caused all of the problems
    3. all women are victims
    4. I am a victim
    5. Logic is unimportant
    6. sssshhhhhh...don't ask why there is no men's studies department...diversity means that only liberal politically correct opinions are allowed...

  3. Re:Camp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you people even KNOW what "redundant" means?