Video Games Why The Bias
This Christmas, like millions of other parents, I bought my two children, a boy and a girl,a popular home video game system. I thought they could share it and when asked if this was OK with them, they replied, “Sure mom, that would be great.” So, we planned on installing the little goody onto the TV in the family room, so that both kids would have an equal chance to play. So, “What then?” you may be asking is the problem. The problem arose when we went to shop for games for the system. They weren’t hard to find. They were in all the local toy stores and Walmart and Kmart too! But, there weren’t any for girls! I looked high and low and came up Why was this happening? Surely, girls must want to play video games as much as boys do! Why then, aren’t game manufacturers producing any video games that feature girls as the main character? On a recent trip to our local Walmart store, I found over two hundred video game titles, yes I counted, for our game system, but of these only two had female main characters. One of them was, you guessed it, Barbie! The other one was a female warrior dressed in a scantily clad leather outfit. I’m pretty sure the latter was
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