Bonnie Ruberg over at Killer Betties has a thoughtful piece on homosexual gamers. Women gamers are a minority and lesbians even greater still. Gaming is a testosterone driven Industry as reflected in everything from booth babes to Kasumi knickers to most of my posts here. Ruberg writes:

Women, as members of a larger video game society, are often considered peripheral; if so, lesbians are the periphery of this periphery. As such, theirs is an even steeper uphill battle, a struggle against stereotypes not just about femininity, but about being gay. Yet they continue to play, if sometimes in the shadows - caught in a complex gaming culture that, in objectifying and over-sexualizing women, calls into conflict their feminist concerns and the interests of their desires.

Well said.

Read the full piece here [Killer Betties]

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