STIGMATIZATION IN GENDER AND VIDEO GAMING 

As we already now they are alot of stigmas involved when it comes to gender as a whole as to what boys are required to like and what girls are required to like, in these interview we break through these various social constructs as we look at the female and male perspectives on the topic and try to come up with ways in which we can deal with these various stigmas involved.

FEMALE PERSPECTIVE :

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Interviewer: are video games more male or female dominated

Interviewee: yes i feel like it is more male dominated than female dominated space because it more male appealing and they use alot of social constructs to over- sexualize female characters in the game.

Interviewer: so your saying it’s more of a social construct issue

Interviewee: yeah! I feel like the discrimination in gender gaming is routed to the past as males are grown to play sports and females would do less masculine things like playing with dolls

Interview: how can we combat this social construct issue

Interviewee: making the video games more gender neutral, creating a video game that has both a male and female character and creating alot of equality

MALE PERSPECTIVE

Interviewer: what gender do you recognize as

interview : i’m a straight male

Interviewer: are video games more female dominated than female dominated

Interviewee: definitely more male dominated… females are the minority in video games 

Interviewer: Do you feel like its the social construct we have in life

Interviewee: Yeah I feel like men are more exposed to it, if you think about the early days of video gaming it was just a bunch of guys hanging out in their basements as that was seen as very uncool that’s why I guess less girls are into gaming.

Interviewer: how can we combat this social construct 

Interviewee: i don’t know make video games more appealing to women, because i see video games are more appling to guys than girls for example COD and various fighting games are things that guys would be social more interested in