Dear Video Game Industry

The best way to make games that appeal to women is to hire women to work on them. Not one, not a few, but a lot. Also, not one game, or a few, but the majority (if not all) of the games you produce. Because we've tried to pound it into your thick frackin' skulls for *years* what would make us more interested in your video games (e.g. women as heroines rather than side kicks, shaped like human beings instead of Barbie dolls, who kick ass and take names without having every single interaction tinged with (much less dripping with) sexual crap - go talk to Joss Whedon) and you still don't get it. Since you're so astoundingly incompetent in this department, just give up and let us do it instead. ktnxbi

Oh, while I'm on the subject: women gamers in the BBC News, a pretty decent article on the subject (ignore the Desperate Housewives thing, that's just flower-scented bullshit)

Dear Video Game Industry

The best way to make games that appeal to women is to hire women to work on them. Not one, not a few, but a lot. Also, not one game, or a few, but the majority (if not all) of the games you produce. Because we've tried to pound it into your thick frackin' skulls for *years* what would make us more interested in your video games (e.g. women as heroines rather than side kicks, shaped like human beings instead of Barbie dolls, who kick ass and take names without having every single interaction tinged with (much less dripping with) sexual crap - go talk to Joss Whedon) and you still don't get it. Since you're so astoundingly incompetent in this department, just give up and let us do it instead. ktnxbi

Oh, while I'm on the subject: women gamers in the BBC News, a pretty decent article on the subject (ignore the Desperate Housewives thing, that's just flower-scented bullshit)

Love, Sex, and The Brain

I wanted to share a fascinating discussion on the biology of sex and love and how sex and love are changing (or not so much) given by anthropologist Helen Fisher: TEDTalks: Helen Fisher (30 min video w/sound) There were several places where I completely failed to agree with her (anyone who knows how much I bloody hate evolutionary psychology could've figured that out ;P), but overall it's worth watching.

Love, Sex, and The Brain

I wanted to share a fascinating discussion on the biology of sex and love and how sex and love are changing (or not so much) given by anthropologist Helen Fisher: TEDTalks: Helen Fisher (30 min video w/sound) There were several places where I completely failed to agree with her (anyone who knows how much I bloody hate evolutionary psychology could've figured that out ;P), but overall it's worth watching.