“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies are uncovered and made more vulnerable. Thus, as women gain power,… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that lead to… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This… — Nick Yee Copy Share
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site. The love… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17” — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.” — Nick Yee Copy Share
“As sociologist T. L. Taylor has argued, these attempts to create games specifically for women are “reifying imagined difference[s]” between male and female gamers.… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20 The fantasy… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their perceived promiscuity.… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Studies have consistently shown that women have less free time and that their free time is more likely to be infringed on by gendered… — Nick Yee Copy Share
“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and shape how… — Nick Yee Copy Share
