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I'm gonna link to character art that most of you have seen, because I have some people on the f-list who haven't, not because I think you are dumb.
So, my job at work often involves me doing grantwork, as in, typing shit up. I talk with production and work with them, yes, but I am primarily a "come up with ideas" and "omg does this even make sense with SCIENCE?" and "shit can you do the lit review for this?" type of person. And it's a lot of fun most days, but some days I am idling (like yesterday). But the good thing about working in EDUCATIONAL gaming is that not only are we supposed to looking at stereotypes, but we're supposed to avoid them. And it's not easy!
Being a female in engineering, I was in charge of most of the review for "how do we get girls to play this?" And while some of the research has me rolling my eyes, I try to keep an open mind and remember that I am about as close to normal girl as well, I'm not. XD And even I don't get how it just doesn't click for some girls. Outside of fandom, I hung in mostly dude circles! So I have to get the dudebro out of my brain sometimes.
But we still have mistakes! And thankfully the office is pretty even with men and women (we are, it's kind of shocking for a tech company, and one of our programmers is of the chick variety) so they don't happen for long. And we had a slight problem with the sexy.
( the sexy! )
So basically the point of all this is that even in the happy place where I am, where we try to think of equality and minorities and including everyone, we still have moments were we default back to Dudebro 101. And that's silly! Plus lots of other people talk about this way better than I do. The end!
So, my job at work often involves me doing grantwork, as in, typing shit up. I talk with production and work with them, yes, but I am primarily a "come up with ideas" and "omg does this even make sense with SCIENCE?" and "shit can you do the lit review for this?" type of person. And it's a lot of fun most days, but some days I am idling (like yesterday). But the good thing about working in EDUCATIONAL gaming is that not only are we supposed to looking at stereotypes, but we're supposed to avoid them. And it's not easy!
Being a female in engineering, I was in charge of most of the review for "how do we get girls to play this?" And while some of the research has me rolling my eyes, I try to keep an open mind and remember that I am about as close to normal girl as well, I'm not. XD And even I don't get how it just doesn't click for some girls. Outside of fandom, I hung in mostly dude circles! So I have to get the dudebro out of my brain sometimes.
But we still have mistakes! And thankfully the office is pretty even with men and women (we are, it's kind of shocking for a tech company, and one of our programmers is of the chick variety) so they don't happen for long. And we had a slight problem with the sexy.
( the sexy! )
So basically the point of all this is that even in the happy place where I am, where we try to think of equality and minorities and including everyone, we still have moments were we default back to Dudebro 101. And that's silly! Plus lots of other people talk about this way better than I do. The end!
