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[CW: Racism] Now they're bad because they're made by women and... I guess that's some bizarre slur for Indians
The most underrepresented minority: the bald.
But when it comes to representation, I think the most heartbreaking thing that comes to mind is this Twitter post bemoaning a programmer who was feminine with colored hair working at Bethesda if memory serves. She was revealed to be integral to much of the "golden age" work in Oblivion+Skyrim. I'm paraphrasing because I forget, but essentially she was THERE WHEN IT WHAT "JUST WHITE MEN". For me the frustration is coming from the erasure and making light of people who always liked games.
The obsession with race/sex is exhausting. Shit is like Garchomp in OU - you need to have it or you need something to address it. I want to know if you're indie, if you've branched off of a big company, or if you're taking responsibility in a big company. I want to know if you come from gaming or if you come from capitalist entertainment money siphoning land. Maybe that makes me blind to prejudice, but when the product is a game I just want the game to be good and tell a story and I think an avant garde perspective is an advantage when it comes to that.
there's tension between "oh there were always a few women around
" and "but not nearly enough because the fucking workplace and higher ed are so hostile"
I see your point there, absolutely. My point is that the abandonment of the women who did survive to continue what they do today because of the perception of them is a very sad thing. The hostile environments are another sad thing. What's more, who better to enlighten us about the horrible circumstances than the women victimized by it? In that sense I wouldn't have called it a natural, structural tension - you'd have to be wielding their identity cynically to conflate their existence with the circumstances being good enough as they were.