The IRIS Network
So there's a new gaming forum up. The IRIS Network is described as a feminist-oriented community for gamers. A post clarifies it as:
While I just described the forums as "feminist-oriented", this isn't a community just for feminists. It's for women of all walks of life who count gaming among their passions, men interested in networking with women gamers and perhaps learning more about inclusive game design in the process, and, really, anyone who has ever felt that they have been excluded from most games and/or gaming communities at large.
Via it, I found mr_orgue's seven-part postings of a gender analysis of Dragon magazine covers, starting with Part 1 (with each one linking to the next at the bottom).
I started a thread on Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to D&D -- a book from Wizards of the Coast slated for release in September already discussed in a Story Games thread.
I'd toss out some possible topics for discussion:
I've mentioned before vito-excalibur's excellent send-up of Wizard's comic-book drawing guide, where she reverses the drawing style and posing of men and women. However, I discovered to my chagrin that I hadn't actually posted about it here.
In jimboboz's post "Gender and writing differences", he cites some studies on differences between men and women's writing styles, and ponders their application to role-playing.
And there is Meera Barry's "Illegal Gods: The Role of Women", where she talks about art, characters, and pronoun use in her plan for her game Illegal Gods.
While I just described the forums as "feminist-oriented", this isn't a community just for feminists. It's for women of all walks of life who count gaming among their passions, men interested in networking with women gamers and perhaps learning more about inclusive game design in the process, and, really, anyone who has ever felt that they have been excluded from most games and/or gaming communities at large.
Via it, I found mr_orgue's seven-part postings of a gender analysis of Dragon magazine covers, starting with Part 1 (with each one linking to the next at the bottom).
I started a thread on Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to D&D -- a book from Wizards of the Coast slated for release in September already discussed in a Story Games thread.
I'd toss out some possible topics for discussion:
I've mentioned before vito-excalibur's excellent send-up of Wizard's comic-book drawing guide, where she reverses the drawing style and posing of men and women. However, I discovered to my chagrin that I hadn't actually posted about it here.
In jimboboz's post "Gender and writing differences", he cites some studies on differences between men and women's writing styles, and ponders their application to role-playing.
And there is Meera Barry's "Illegal Gods: The Role of Women", where she talks about art, characters, and pronoun use in her plan for her game Illegal Gods.