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Tag Archives: RPGs
Boob Sliders, Or How Role-Playing Games Helped Me Transition
The following is a guest post from Samantha Allen: Samantha Allen is a transgender woman and an ex-Mormon. She is also a third-year PhD student in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University writing a dissertation … Continue reading
The Escapist on Wussy RPG Girls
Today, in The Escapist, journalist Eileen Stahl writes an intriguing analysis of wimpy women in Japanese role-playing games that hardly deserve the title “heroine.” She links these wimpy women to the tradition of Kabuki theater in 17th century Japan, which both artistically … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games
Tagged characters, female protagonists, FFXIII, Final Fantasy XIII, Japan, Lightning, princesses, RPGs, the escapist, women
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The Laboratory of Dreams: Theory from an RPG Sourcebook
This is a crosspost from my blog, Nuclear Unicorn, enjoy! When we’re children we’re often taught that great ideas are the product of great minds; blessed ideas that spring forth from the creator’s cranium like Athena from Zeus, fully … Continue reading
Posted in General Gaming
Tagged Eclipse Phase, feminism, gender, RPGs, transgender, transsexual
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What’s Wrong With Leanne
by guest contributor Sparky Clarkson Michael “Sparky” Clarkson is a biophysical researcher at a small university in Boston, and is originally from Alabama. He blogs at Discount Thoughts. To a large extent, my enjoyment of a game depends on … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games
Tagged PS3, resonance of fate, RPGs, SEGA, sexism, tri-Ace, Xbox 360
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Designing Against the Default Human
A friend linked this post about the indie flash game Every Day the Same Dream, a conversation between Nick Montfort and Mary Flanagan about criticisms of the game with regard to gender and race, and the implications of changing the … Continue reading
Posted in General Gaming, Virtual Worlds
Tagged game design, gender, race, racism, RPGs, sexism
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