Should video games be changed and developed to be more appealing to women?
I don't think so. I invite girls to come and play video games. I'm not the type to say something like "girls stay in the kitchen/mall/beauty parlor while we play video games and hunt." I wouldn't say that. But do we really need video games FOR girls? No. Video games are video games. Once they are labeled as "girl video games," they are no longer video games. If a girl likes to play video games, I'm happy about that. I like playing video games with girls in much the same way that girls enjoy having a boy that loves shopping come with them to the mall. Boys don't generally enjoy going to the mall. I definitely don't. And it isn't out of some misplaced feeling of manliness or toughness. I don't like the mall because it makes my feet hurt to walk all over the place and it's boring and repetitive and I don't like spending money! But is everybody scrambling to change malls all over the United States to be more appealing to men? No! The reason for that is because the only gender issue that society sees as important is making women feel as if they are more equal to men! We only want to include women in man-things and we don't care if it works the other way around. Today, women are respected for breaking gender barriers. Men are just ridiculed and assumed to be homosexual. Which shouldn't even be considered a bad thing in the first place!
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