You're right in that not everyone who playes games are sexist; it's that the community as a whole generally seems to tolerate this kind of behaviour. They may not approve, but how many people are willing, in the middle of the game, to speak out against the sexist comments made by others? To shame the jerks into…

I imagine that's Chipzel, so the answer may very well be yes.

In that case . . . what a jerk.

There are plenty of reasons why someone would use a wheelchair without needing one—my partner will use one when shopping in a mall, because her lupus makes it tough for her to walk for long distances. She can still get up and walk unassisted, but it causes pain (and she'll pay for it later if she overdoes it).

When novels, television, movies, and video games feature a similar number of female protagonists saving males, then it won't be a big deal.

There's a huge difference between trying to please everyone, all of the time, and using common sense to not exclude an entire gender from feeling welcome.

That argument doesn't hold water with me, to be honest. Look at the equality fights over the last hundred years. "People need to not be such whiny fucking bitches" sounds an awful lot like, "I benefit from something that doesn't make you feel like an equal member of society, so be quiet, because my wishes are more…

Because people never grow up, never change their minds, never mature, and never realize their mistakes and work to correct them?

We need to not make people feel uncomfortable.

I'm pretty sure that people can tell the difference between "dancer" and "sexy dancer intended as eye candy," and it isn't just about the amount of skin showing.

Darius Kazemi is not a woman.

People need to actually read the article properly, because there's lots of interesting things to think about in here. Great read.

Great essay to read. I'm loving the improved spotlight on women in gaming on Kotaku, like this and Patricia Hernandez' articles. Sometimes it seems the only way to get change is to hammer the point home, again and again, relentlessly.

I came here to say this; I'm glad someone got there first!

"I'm not trying to judge her, but what an attention whore, right? I'm totally not saying she's an attention whore, but she's such an attention whore."

Loving these articles from Patricia Hernandez! I'm glad she (and Kotaku) are doing more to open the community up.

I was hoping for some ethnic discrimination this afternoon. Thanks, buddy.

It's okay if you don't like Carly Rae Jepsen or her songs, but to complain about how Harmonix is offering DLC that you're under no obligation to buy is somehow a bad thing drives me nuts. Shouldn't we celebrate the diversity of musical styles available instead of decry things we don't like?

It's a shame that the list isn't a little longer. Brent Spiner's turn as Data was a wonderful mirror of humanity, but I understand that it's hard to put three different Star Trek characters into the list.

I rolled a female Sylvari to start, and had to abandon it, because Jennifer Hale's voice acting was -horrific-. I don't know who her director was, or what happened, but -yeesh-.