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We'll Stick To Jane Fonda
Could Wii Fit be causing up to $40 million in damages for women? A recent survey by an insurance company found that women damage their homes — and themselves — when they work out from home. The flimsy cord on the Wii remote can break under heavy use and can sometimes be flung (accidentally, of course) into televisions, furniture, and precious Ming vases (like the ones lying around the Lodge residence whenever Archie comes over). But mostly woman seem to just hurt themselves, by bumping into furniture or pulling a muscle. Sounds like the Wii is not the problem — it's more a lack of space and proper training for the women practicing in-home workouts. [Daily Mail]
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Vidiots
Um, this video "game," "Carrie The Caregiver," is supposed to be fun or something. Targeted at kids 6 and up, the point is to "feed, clean and soothe adorable babies." The new version, "Camp Funshine," involves helping campers with birdhouses and S'mores and crap like that. Maybe it's entertaining for little girls, but how come there's no "Lulu The Lawyer" or "Cece The CEO" game, huh? (Click to see mind-numbingly dull embedded video) [Packaging Girlhood]
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Neo-Nazis Beat Up Swedish Feminists • Disco Queen Alienates The Gays
Swedish neo-Nazis attack feminists at rally with metal pipes. • Desperate Afghan women are turning to prostitution to make ends meet. • New Lincoln biography attempts to portray both sides of his rocky marriage. • Two Belgian "beer fans" invent a 2-person peeing video game for urinals. • Speaking of video games, Gears of War 2 is being made more "girlfriend friendly" with easier settings and flatter-chested female characters. Whatever. • Born-again disco queen Gloria Gaynor gives up weed, alcohol, and gay fan base. • Author says that hypermasculinity surrounding guns scares off some women from gun culture. • Nerds have a love of hierarchies, rules, but not irony (sorry hipster geeks!). • Non-Arabic-speaking, New Jersey mom becomes a activist blogger focusing on political issues and free speech in Yemen. • Breadwinning wives resent their husbands who don't pitch in around the house. • The $599 Hello Kitty cell phone: to be coveted by little girls and immature adults everywhere!
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Feministing points out that the brand-new, critically-acclaimed 'Grand Theft Auto' video game has lots of strippers and pole dancers in it. You can get a lap dance where the girl puts her crotch in your face. Also! As the trailer shows, you can pick up hookers and kill them immediately after having (explicit) sex with them. "Stay down or I will finish you off!" your character says after gunning down a prostitute. Blogger Samhita writes, "Given the popular nature of GTA, it is cool to be violent and kill prostitutes... Where does this put young women gamers? How do they feel when playing video games with such violent representations of women?" [Feministing, IGN]
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Gaming Industry Is Full Of Sexist Geeks
The editor behind MTV.com's Mulitplayer Blog has posted a series of interviews with women from all different areas of of the gaming industry in response to the internet humiliation of Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond (pictured). When Creed was released last month, Raymond was often in the public eye as she was actively promoting the game. Internet geeks 'round the world felt the need to weigh in on Jade, often denigrating her competence because of her attractiveness. The buzz reached a fever pitch when a website called Something Awful posted a defaming comic, which showed a cartoon named Jade fellating a trio of gamers, and according to our brother site Kotaku, it got worse from there. More »
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Is It Every Little Girl's Dream To Babysit? One Video Game Company Thinks So
Alice Taylor, a prominent gamer (and former nationally-ranked Quake player) blogs on a site called Wonderland. Her criticism of Ubisoft's new line of "girl-oriented" games that focus on "shopping, fashion, animals and babies" was inspired by a post on Kotaku and picked up by Boing Boing. Taylor admits that hugely popular game World Of Warcraft is at least 40% shopping, but says, rightly so, that shopping is not only what girls like. Ubisoft claims,Those games were really designed for young girls who are just looking for fun games and ways to explore their favorite hobbies... From what we've seen, [the girls] didn't mention anything about being a police officer.More »
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Yup, It's True: Girls Play Games
Online Media Daily says that in a Denizens of Digitivity survey, 44% of women said that they owned a gaming console, compared to 39% of men. The stereotype of the American gamer — 18-34, male, single and white — is not necessarily on target, claims the report. Between the Wii, Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo DS, there's a a rise in the female gamer. "The Wii has really caused a democratization of gaming, because that has opened it up to all generations and both genders," said Ann Mack, director of trendspotting for JWT.More »
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