Online Riot Grrrl Gamers

Although the gaming world is dominated by males, by looking deeper into the gaming 'society' you can find female gamers of many ages that can, well, 'kick some ass' and better than many male gamers themselves.

There was a show running from 1999 to 2001 called 'Bits' which was a computer games show that reviewed computer games, which sounds pretty obvious and conventional, but the hosts an reviewers of the show where three women (Aleks Krotoski, Emily Booth and Emily Newton Dunn), and what was even more 'surprising' is that they knew their stuff about the games, strange right?



Channel 4 show 'Bits' (1999-2001)



This show encouraged the idea that women can be interested in gaming and know the facts about what they were reviewing, this showing women that they can also be involved in these games and not to feel like they are in a 'man's world'.

This made an opening in the gaming culture and showed everyone that female players can exist, but it seems that this has been forgotten. Why? Because we do not have any shows like this on currently or throughout any media, all media in our pop culture era shows us now is that women should keep to a certain identity of which gaming is not involved.

To be totally honest, I'd rather be having fun with friends playing video games than focusing on how I appear to look and how others think I look.

I'd rather be happy looking like this:

Than being miserable and blending into the common stereotype of what a woman should be from my area: