--- title: "2 Female character Quotes By Nick Yee" description: "2 Female character quotes by Nick Yee. Plus more from Nick Yee and more Female character sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/nick-yee-26952_female-character_where-we-did-find-a-statistical-differen_696101.jpg" --- > [“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This disparity was a direct consequence of how players behave when they gender-bend. When men gender-bend and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/where-we-did-find-a-statistical-difference-was-in-character-gender/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/nick-yee-26952_female-character_where-we-did-find-a-statistical-differen_696101.jpg) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-male-characters-level-up-and-become-more-powerful-their-bodies/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/nick-yee-26952_female-character_as-male-characters-level-up-and-become-m_970783.jpg) ## Other authors on Female character - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-geena-davis-37178.jpg) Geena Davis 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-character/geena-davis/) - [Noelle Stevenson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-character/noelle-stevenson/) - [Madchen Amick 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-character/madchen-amick/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joss-whedon-53730.jpg) Joss Whedon 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-character/joss-whedon/) ## More by Nick Yee > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/it-s-easier-to-put-warning-labels-on-video-games-than-to-address-all/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/where-we-did-find-a-statistical-difference-was-in-character-gender/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/the-being-we-call-god-is-merely-a-pawn-working-for-a-powerful-and/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-male-characters-level-up-and-become-more-powerful-their-bodies/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site. The love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/falling-in-love-in-an-online-game-is-more-similar-to-an-office/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/gender-bending-among-men-is-often-an-artifact-of-the-sexualized/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/taken-to-its-extreme-the-premise-of-gamification-is-that-any-task-no/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [ “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.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-sociologist-t-l-taylor-has-argued-these-attempts-to-create-games/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/even-if-virtual-worlds-were-tabula-rasa-we-are-encumbered-with-a/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/edward-castronova-has-argued-that-virtual-worlds-are-the-modern/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/political-theorist-langdon-winner-argues-that-human-artifacts-embody/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their perceived promiscuity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/participants-exposed-to-scantily-clad-female-avatars-were-more-likely/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/when-the-first-professional-computer-programmers-were-all-women/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Studies have consistently shown that women have less free time and that their free time is more likely to be infringed on by gendered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/studies-have-consistently-shown-that-women-have-less-free-time-and/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/sexism-isn-t-a-conspiracy-that-men-carry-out-against-women-it-s-how/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-character/nick-yee/#itemlist", "name": "2 Female character Quotes By Nick Yee", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. 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