It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.
Interpretation
The inclusion of women in game production means little if their perspectives are not considered in evaluations.
Brianna Wu emphasizes the importance of representation not just in the workforce but also in decision-making roles. Unless women's contributions and perspectives are valued and integrated into the evaluation processes, the industry will continue to overlook their voices, limiting diversity and innovation in game production.
In practice
In a panel discussion on diversity in tech, to highlight the importance of including women's voices.
Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.
Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. β¦ Gender equality is your issue, too. β¦ I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a menβor less of a man. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.
It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really talented young male counterparts are having.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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