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Should Gaming Media Work to Fight Stereotypes?

Posted by Zonk on from the laudible-goal dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes "Gaming Horizon has a nice editorial taking a look at how gamers are poorly stereotyped and pandered to. (SpikeTV awards, anyone?) The writer proposes that gaming media unionize to help fight the stereotypes perpetuated by outsider media and interest groups, perhaps a more "Oscar-style" awards show, and further establishing the ESRB rating system among parents."

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  1. It may help if you stop whining. by Seumas · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whining a whole lot about your "videogamer image" doesn't exactly do much to help tear down videogamer stereotypes.

    Get a pair of balls. Quit crying. Play your games or don't play them. Either way, stop worrying so much about what the hell everyone things of you. You're not the team captain of the football team and you're never going to be treated with that reverance. So grow up.