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by SWC Memorybank 06/05/2016, 2:29pm PDT |
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The character was asking the class, "how many of you play games? / how many of you play as girl characters?", then follows gushing about her wykked rad MMO persona.
Equally she herself could be questioned, "Do you write code? / Do you build models? / Do you make textures? / Do you design interfaces? etc", with the answer being a resounding 'No'. She's not there to teach them skills, or to talk about the struggles of her professional journey (Which is improved in the edit). Therefore, she really has no place proselytizing to young children about this kind of diversionary/false empowerment. Placing herself as the 'wise' victim-hero shadowboxing against, uh, the plight of electronic gender representation, and telling these young girls to fallback the same? Barf.
It also comes off as very Shit-That-Never-Happened. And, well, that's because it's fiction scribed by Cory Doctorow. I guarantee this was written for his daughter or something to be "inspirational" (and I don't need to go to Wikipedia to confirm, it's blatant enough as is). Thanks for the empty self-serving, well-wishing, Gamer Dad.
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