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Yet Another Stat That Proves The Male Gamer Stereotype Is A Farce

With new data from a Pew Research Center survey, we know that women play an even bigger role in the gaming community. Of the 40% of Americans who own a video game console, 42% are women and only 37% are men.

1. I’m not sure if they include PC as a gaming console here, but that could sway the statistics. An ever growing part of the gaming community is on PC, and it would invalidate these stats to leave it out.

2. They don’t give specific statistics for each console, which is an important oversight. There’s hardware that’s generally more popular with female audiences, like most Nintendos, and there’s hardware that is more popular with male audiences, like the PC. 

3. This only examines American gamers, even though other countries have their own gender ratios. There are no international borders in video games, so this survey only looked at an unrepresentative chunk of all gamers.

4. The survey mentions the previous survey that claims adult women outnumber teen boys in video games, even though that survey included mobile games. While mobile games could be seen as valid, they shouldn’t be included with console/pc games as they are an entirely different thing.

5. The survey claims that gender relations in video games don’t match these statistics, and blame gamers for this gap. But the survey fails to assess whether women and men are playing the same games on average.  There are numerous statistics that show women are more likely to play platformers, visual novels, and character driven games, whereas men are more likely to play shooters, mobas or mmorpgs. Life is Strange, Sims 4 and Hatoful Boyfriend are going to have different demographics than World of Warcraft and Gears of War, which explains why women are the prioritized audience in some genres and a secondary audience in others. 

6. The survey claims that “women are rarely considered to be an equal presence” in video games, even though this year has given us some of the most progressive games to date.

7. This survey doesn’t account for the fact that a single console can have multiple users. In a household with a mother and son, the mother will own the console, but the son might also be a player of it. He wouldn’t be counted in this survey. Therefore, there’s potentially a large number of gamers who aren’t accounted for.

8. The survey had a sample of 948, which I personally don’t think is large enough to represent 319,900,000 people. Plus, the sample isn’t mentioned. They could’ve taken it at an anime convention or at a maximum security prison. Where/when/how they took their sample group will have a large impact on results, especially with such a small sample. 

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This movie has nothing to do with America. REPEAT AFTER ME, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AMERICA!

Stop erasing other cultures’ history. Stop making everything about you. American isn’t the center of the universe. 

The paranoia and sexism is strong with this one.

But yes, sometimes mentally ill people are violent. Sometimes we are bad people. And even those mentally ill people are in need of advocacy, maybe even more so.

More realistically: go take a shower because it’s been three days. Wash the dishes that have been in the sink since last Friday that you can smell as soon as you open your door because rotting food stinks. Pick all your clothes off the floor because that’s where your entire wardrobe is and you’ve already cried today because you tripped over a sweater and realized the cat puked on it. Call someone who can give you enough courage to pay that bill you’ve been ignoring. Put away the crackers because that’s all you’ve eaten for two days straight. Apologize to the friends who are worried sick about you, and if you can’t at least let them know you are ok and need space. 

One of the most empowering types of self-care is responsibility, but tumblr just wants to sit in a closet strung with fairy lights and read their favorite fic.  

Tagging is largely the oppressed claiming space, space for themselves and space for their art. It’s not meant to make anyone feel comfortable. The fact that the very same people who think that black people’s live are worth so little embrace Banksy is proof of this. 

One of the things that’s recently pissed a lot of taggers off is, he’s not part of the tagger community and doesn’t know the rules, doesn’t follow them. NYC is locals only when it comes to graffiti, since they’re the ones whose space it is.

Like. He went to East NYC, predominately black and Latinx, majority poor, where there are a TON of local taggers, and claimed areas as his, Instagrammed the general area so people (mainly white middle to upper class) could come flocking He’s going to poor parts of NY–areas where taggers flourish–and waltzing in and claiming space as his. 

He’s also like, peak liberal. ‘Down with the system!’ while being the very system itself. ‘Destroy capitalism!’ while doing everything he can to capitalize. Literally ‘If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes politics’ while being someone who benefits from the horrors committed.

Marvel, Please Cast an Asian American Iron Fist | thenerdsofcolor

“Yes, I am proposing that a major comic book institution change the race of one of its popular characters as it transitions to a new form of media. In this case, I want Marvel Studios to cast an Asian American actor to play the lead in the upcoming Iron Fist show it is developing for Netflix.

It seems logical enough to me, though as always, there are fans who are urging Marvel to resist changing his race. Now, I know the topic of cross-racial casting has come up time and time again here at The Nerds of Color. And while there are a contingent of fans who don’t think such things matter — or worse, are vehemently opposed to such casting choices — I can’t help thinking that Iron Fist gives Marvel a chance to add even more diversity to its interconnected cinematic universe.

Not to mention that this is a case where changing the race of the character has the potential to actually add layers of depth to the story of said character. First, let’s get a couple of misconceptions out of the way. My call for an Asian American Iron Fist is not meant to displace Danny Rand from the story. It is, in fact, the opposite…” 

Keep reading Keith Chow’s article at thenerdsofcolor

At a Tent Theater Near You: Traveling Tent Cinemas of India

Nomadic cinemas travel to remote villages in India, far from fixed-site theaters. Films are shown in large tents, often using makeshift equipment, with the audience seated on the ground. Although India is home to the most prolific movie industry in the world, producing around 800 films a year, it has one of the lowest ratios of screens to population – 13 screens per million people. The traveling cinemas show mixed fare, including regional language films, Bollywood blockbusters and Hollywood movies, but they are facing a fight for survival as DVDs become more easily accessible and cable networks penetrate further into the country.

(World Press Photo, Arts and Entertainment, first prize stories, 2011)

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