Quote: Originally Posted by JasonTerminator The big difference is that Joann Fabric and the craft/knitting/sewing industry isn't sexist against men.

Nor is the video game industry sexist against women. Both industries have a target demographic and market their products in such a way that will be attractive to that demographic. No one says that women cannot participate, but women, who control most household spending, do not buy or play the traditionally core games on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Even on the Wii, a system designed to attract more casual players, women are about 26% of the audience. When women do play video games, it is usually at the behest of a boyfriend/husband, so even the few that do play are not actually voting with their purses. If the argument is that the games industry must change to attract women, I disagree.

Quote: Originally Posted by waldo21212 Go buy 100 copies of Mirror's Edge at full price and make sure you get 100 more people to do the same if you want things to change. Vote with your wallet, not your whining on the interwebz.

Exactly. I'm a so-called sexist gamer and yet I was the one of the few pushing Beyond Good & Evil at a time when no one was talking about it. I can even find my posts from 2004 when I was calling it game of the year 2003. It was a financial flop that all these numerous female gamers should have flocked to and should be flocking to now if they want to support this kind of game. But they don't, and they won't, and that's reality.