It can be hard to put your foot down, because no one wants to have to nag.

Because A) they can get away with it, and B) have never been programmed to feel judged over their householding skills. Men are judged for being deadbeat dads, or unemployed, but not about cleaning. Not even now.

Thissss! I went I away this weekend unexpectedly and my husband stayed home. I asked him to please clean the whole apartment (which I do on a regular basis) and after much gyration he agreed. When I got home it was mostly clean (but not very well done) and he hadn’t cleaned the bathtub because he “didn’t know how.”…

This is so me. I can’t count on my husband to do things, or when he does do them it will be sloppy or wrong. So I end up doing most everything. I worry that if I tell him to do things he’ll be mad or if I don’t praise him for doing something he’ll feel taken for granted. Meanwhile I’m doing intense deep cleanings of…

Well said. When I would bark at my husband for not emptying the trash or picking up after himself, he said he didn’t notice it. Literally expecting someone else to take care of it.

Here’s the issue my husband believes (like literally believes) we are at 50/50 when in reality it’s more like 90/10 and it blows my mind. What was even more revealing is I tried to create a chore chart/list to create a more equal workload but so many items I was like “he won’t do that right” or “this looks like he’s…

You must be thinking of the numerous workshops that already exist.

I’m sorry, but this smacks of high school students (and their parents) saying that they can’t get a scholarship because they’re not a minority.

There are plenty of game design workshops and camps offered by numerous sponsors that are open to everybody. The reason why there are a just a few only open to specific…

Hey, when I was learning programming, one of the male programmers patiently explained to me that I could never learn to code because women’s brains fundamentally lacked the ability to understand logic. Women, he explained, were biologically incapable of employing logic and thus could never be programmers. He’s…

Ok yeah we get it, but it’s the same issue as recent grads for jobs nowadays: How do you get 5 years experience when you need 5 years experience for the job?
That’s why you target for inclusion. That’s the price to pay for centuries of inequality. Sometimes people get in cuz they’re not white men. But since like,…

The most simple way to put it is boys already have “Boys Make Games.” There are plenty of organizations out there to teach coding to everyone. The issues comes from the fact that these are typically geared towards boys and can be quite hostile to girls. In my programming classes we never had more than 3 women. We…

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…

Two of my college professors tried to tell me I shouldn’t be a coder and should seek a different degree, despite me being a 4.0 student. One of them later got busted for sexist grading policies.

You know what’s underneath the message anytime someone says stuff like this?

Literally no one is suggesting what you’re saying. But it’s very telling that you assume that women and blacks aren’t as good as their male white counter parts.

Also FUCK GAMERGATERS. I want women in games, games journalism, and games criticism. BECAUSE I’M NOT SCARED THAT I WON’T BE THE ONLY VIEWPOINT THAT’S CATERED TO. I’m aging out of the target demo of EVERYONE (White, Straight, Male, 35) and everything is boring. I’ve see it all. I want something new. Also, I’m a fucking…

But nobody is talking about quotas. We’re talking about summer camps and workshops for girls. Wouldn’t you agree that this is a great way to encourage increasing the number of women in the industry as opposed to having these top down quotas that you don’t like?

“We need more women, just because” is the kind of straw man that lazy thinkers use when they want to convince people that they don’t have to do any intellectual work. It’s not “just because”, and it never has been. Women buy and play video games, and are participating significantly in the economic market for video…

No one is saying “don’t look at their experience”.