If that blog title didn’t catch you, I don’t know what will. After all, Felicia Day is the ULTIMATE example of “guys want to be with her, girls want to be her”. (Well, some girls want to be with her too…but that goes without saying…)
My friend (and EQ2 tradeskill developer extraordinaire) Emily wrote a post on the G.I.R.L. (Gamers in Real Life) blog about what an awesome role model Felicia is for women.
Not only is she a good role model for anybody who’s not yet where they want to be in their career, but she’s also a fantastic representative of women in gaming. To the old refrain of “girls don’t game” we can now say, look! A woman MMO gamer who is attractive, successful and smart. She’s far from the only one, but she’s certainly the highest profile one around right now, and by doing what she’s doing, she represents all of us.
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Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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“guys want to be with her, girls want to be her”
Bad trope, bad. It equates female aspirations to whatever guys find sexy. I’d like to see more female roll models who were successful and geeky and *not* “hawt.”