The women I know who game are so into it. We come alive with controllers in our hands. We open up.
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Replying to @AlexandraErin
This might be a side effect of defining their avatar around apathy: she "doesn't care about anything except video games", right?
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Replying to @AlexandraErin
But you draw this character with the intention of conveying "does not care" and then you put a controller or keyboard in front of her.
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That's part of it, I think. But another part is that GG is fundamentally afraid of the way women engage with our hobbies, including gaming.
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We are the social organizers. We are the ones who engage with the story in multiple dimensions. We invented organized fandom.
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You show a smiling, laughing Vivian James having fun with her friends, and what's next? She's pinning fan art. She's writing fan fic.
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She starts to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang... wait, no, wrong trouble.
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In other words, GG defined Vivian as a woman "just wants to play video games" instead of a woman "who loves to play video games".
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Because if she had any actual enthusiasm or passion for games, she would threaten the supposedly natural order of things.
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@alexandraerin Yeah, remember the thing with the T-shirt shitting on "fangirls"
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