You do a very good job of laying out the basics of the situation. For perspective on the matter, the studio I work for is currently accepting applications for programmers. Of the applications I have dealt with none have been women.
The industry is not even reaching the moment at which we could choose our hires based…

There are plenty of game jams and workshops for you. This one is not for you. I can’t imagine that will really affect your life all that much, but if it does, consider it a trade-off for all the other inherent advantages you’ll have in the video game industry. Not having to worry all that much about being sexually…

I can’t star this enough

I’ll assume you’re commenting in good faith despite your use of an awful buzzword like “identity politics,” so consider this: Lots of girls are taught that video games and game development are for men. Girls Make Games is an institution designed to teach girls that hey, they can play and make video games too, which…

Sesame Street introduced me to diversity back in the day and I’m glad to see it’s still fulfilling that role, anyway. As a rural white child in the early 1970s, I didn’t see people of color IRL ever and knew they existed only because of Sesame Street.

I think they put heroin in it.

And even then, cheeses that are imported from the UK (Kerrygold, some stiltons, etc.) are exorbitantly expensive here, and are often the only decent cheeses you can get at your average grocery store if you’re not in Wisconsin or on the coast.

On the bright side, I previously had no idea that there were restaurants that specialized in cheese. I am now off to find the nearest cheese affinage restaurant.

Sorry, this is for white people only:

They should have asked him for his SAG card in return.

I suspect he spends his nights furiously hate-masturbating that 90% of his cheese is French/British/German.

But did you venture into coastal Orange County? It’s a whole different world from the places you likely visited in our mostly-fair state.

They should have asked him for his SAG card in return.

What the actual fuck?!?

Zero logic was applied there. Bigots sure are stupid.

The hell? What if they weren’t? I’m Canadian and have vacationed in Cali several times, and have *gasp* eaten in restaurants. As a non-local citizen.

It makes no sense whatsoever. I’m blonde and green-eyed and have an accent and I have a feeling I wouldn’t have been refused service, even if I’m not a US citizen.

I just wrote the same thing. This is the most poorly thought-out bigotry in the history of poorly thought-out bigotry, which is to say ALL bigotry.

“I need to make sure you’re from here,” the waiter told the women who, not knowing what else to do, handed over their IDs.