Others exploring the girl video gamer world

Many others are delving into the gaming world and the small female portion within and all show different ways of thinking about females in and playing the games yet all come to the same conclusion of why there is less females in the gaming community.

Sexism.

Yes, it seems that although we'd like to think that our society has moved on past sexism and the naturalisation of sexist identities, video games are close to only being aimed at males as it involves the action, adventure and the 'hunter-gatherer' ideas behind it which are obviously only male interests (Note the sarcasm).

Sexism such as:

The 'Damsel in distress' plotline -

Explored on sites such as

• http://www.lovelyish.com/772348697/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games-series-critiques-sexism-in-video-games/
• http://www.feministfrequency.com/

(1:00-2:16)

And are focused around this video which looks into the sexism throughout video gaming where females are made to be the objects of desire and damsels in distress rather than the protagonist.



The Sexualization of Women -

• http://n4g.com/news/1188699/sexism-in-video-games-psu
• http://www.businessinsider.com/story-of-gaming-industry-sexism-2013-3
• http://www.computerandvideogames.com/318418/features/sexism-is-a-major-problem-in-video-games-discuss/#

Which look at the sexism and the over sexualisation of women in video games.



And also the stereotyping of the 'Girl Gamer'-

• http://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-girl-gamer-stereotypes/
• http://www.destructoid.com/love-hate-being-a-girl-gamer--158953.phtml

That look into the stereotyping of female gamers and reasons behind why women don't want to get involved with the gaming scene due to the stereotypes and abuse from the stereotypes which they are given.