Women in Games conference canceled due to 'low delegate numbers'

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As terrible as this was, that was an accidental perfect set-up, I have to admit.

Actually, that was a sick burn, ijustw1n....

Don't let it happen AGAIN.

I actually go to Bradford College. There are quite a few women on the game dev courses I hear. However there's only 1 game dev tutor who's female compared to about 4 males.

I'm annoyed this is cancelled as I wanted to go. But I'm not surprised as the College did jack all to promote it.

The computer game side of Bradford College as a whole is very hit and miss. If on the off chance someone is reading this who is considering going there to do a computer games course especially a HE one: DON'T GO! Go somewhere else, seriously.

Also my girlfriend plays games as much as me, as does my sister. I know other women who play games. Blah blah blah. Both women and men play games, let's all try accept that and not keep pushing a tired stereotype.

I have a friend who does games design (or something along those lines) at Bradford College, and the way he makes it out is that he spends most of the day playing CoD4.

It's a shame they didn't advertise this better, because all Bradford seems to have going for it at the moment is a dirty great big crater and a smoudering pile of rubble in the town centre. Oh, and the Jesus Man.

Zal knows every woman who plays video games apparently. There is, actually, a huge number of middle-aged women who play games, but they mostly play little freeware-demo-type shits on the internet. they still count them for polls and whatnot but I doubt they spend much money on games.

I actually dug this, so hopefully we're in for some fireworks...

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Women and suck in the same sentence........? ; )

Aw, why'd Jack get downvoted? I thought it was pretty clear he was joking along...

Nerdy, though, I can't say for sure. :/

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Er, BROAD*, not sure why I said "proud".

Exactly. And I don't think farmville farmers need (or want) a whole conference discussing the future of gaming, do you?

farmville is not a game :)

Speaking of women in the kitchen, how are you doing in FFXIII?

or maybe that's why the conference was cancelled. can't blame people for showing up to a place that doesn't exist.

How's sleeping on the couch working out for ya? ; )

Judging by your user name, you probably weren't interested in them to begin with.

I'm just an open book aren't I? : P

I think he meant the fact the dude listens to Coldplay...

I thought it was because I'm nerdy and a PC gamer. : D

Haha sorry desi, I was referring to coldplay.

You shall be known as Joystiq's resident moodle.

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I remember that:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100227222015AADQQ9E

Actually, this is the original one:

http://i.imgur.com/mCUfG.jpg

"In my 3 years of playing on xbox live I have only come across one girl gamer"

Well there's your problem right there. XBOX Live.

Hell, of all the women I know, only one has heard of an Xbox and actually knows what it is.

Cody knows some idiotic girls. Who's never heard of xbox? Oblivious people that's who.

um....i'm a guy who's been involved with women's right issues and activism for a while, and i can tell you right now that you're not going to win anyone over by ridiculing them.

i understand your frustration, some of the things being posted here are downright ignorant. but if you think you're going to change anyone's mind or advance your cause by acting as immature and childish as the people you're angry at, then you're going to be waiting a long long time. people don't change because you yell at them. if you can't win people over with reason, then anger certainly isn't going to do it.

next time, try being a little more level-headed. state your case, and don't let it get to you. let the haters hate, these kinds of attitudes are slowly dying off, even if some internet bozos make it seem otherwise.

I want more people to be here upvoting David

@David

LOL that wasn't anger that was plain ole me. I've been running my OWN site for over 7 years, hosted my own podcast for over 5 years (I knew Joystiq when it was brand new) I've been on G4, spoke on panels and the list goes on. As I said I speak to them in a language they understand.

The tactic you're speaking of is WHY a lot of women sites/conferences/gamers/gamer clans DON'T do well. It's because so many women think, oh, turn the other cheek. Be nice, we'll win them over. Nice does not WORK when dealing with people like this. I cannot tell you how many times I've been at a conference and standing in front of men who are ignoring me because I'm being "nice". I'm 5'1, tiny ,woman of color. They don't want to pay any attention to me, until I get in their face. THEN I get things done. The guys, same thing. When they realize I'm not going to crawl into a corner and cry because of something they have said (and this is a common tactic among a lot of the male gamer population. To play on the 'emotions' of a woman) they tend to back down. I've heard every insult and nothing they say is going to deter me.

So while your advice is good advice, it's time to put away the niceties and actually get things done...by any means necessary.

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