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SOPA MUST BE STOPPED OR BLOGS LIKE THIS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OPERATE
1/17/2012
STOP SOPA / PIPA
1/04/2012
Game Design In One Word: Male-Dominated
Continuing the thoughts from my last post on chauvinism in game design ...
I saw a link to this video on Twitter via SL user GiannaBorgnine.
Let's play "count the women". Actually, let me spoil it for you. It's two. Of dozens.
The first is buried 2/3rds into the video at 1:00. Her word is "curiosity". This is Robin Hunicke, from TGC, and is the only one who says that word. TGC is a 12-person team, according to their website.
The second is a few seconds later, and her word is "imagination". Again, the only one who says that word. Also, this is Caitlyn Meeks, of Unity Technologies, and you'll note that all of the other Unity people interviewed said "Unity". If that doesn't scream my point about how women will in fact think differently than the echo-chamber male-dominated Silicon Valley boys' club, I don't know what will. I wonder if Caitlyn got a demerit from her superiors for taking the questions seriously and not kowtowing to her brand name? ;)
And that's it.
Oh, but the company who did it put Robin on their banner when you click to the site.
I'm not sure if this makes it a little bit better or a lot worse.
Maybe next time they'll get a non-white person there, too.
(Oh, snap. I went there.)
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