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Game Designers Lack An X Chromosome

Posted by Zonk on from the point-of-view dept.

heartless_ writes "GamerGod is running a response to a recent Chris Crawford article discussing Women and Gaming. The problem with identifying winning game elements lies not in the efforts of the game makers themselves; they can only work with what they have. It lies in the fact that most game developers lack one thing - the elusive extra X chromosome. As a result, we have men trying to decide what women most want to play." We linked to Crawford's piece when it was originally run.

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  1. Jesus CHRIST! by Seumas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Zonk . . . who fucking CARES?!

    Can we just give this "poor down-trodden female gamers" thing a rest for ONE fucking week?!

    I'm sorry to flame off like this but it's just finally getting to the breaking point. ENOUGH already. We get it. It's male dominated. We're sexist and selfish and insensitive and don't get women and don't care about their enjoyment of games and we rig society and academia up so that women fail in everything they do in the world.. OKAY. MY BAD. i'm male. Forgive me.

    Now, can we get on to some REAL articles?! This is SLASHDOT. It isn't fucking N.O.W..

    1. Re:Jesus CHRIST! by meta-monkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Amen, brother. The /. chapter of N.O. M.A.A.M. is taking applications!

      --
      We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
    2. Re:Jesus CHRIST! by ClamIAm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      So mod his articles off the page if you really hate him so much. It's not that hard. Then the rest of us won't have to either put up with or foe+mod_down your bitching.