Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Wmeg7OTU#action=share
Read this article: http://www.aauw.org/2015/03/24/women-get-in-the-game/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
After watching this video, let’s talk about this attack on Anita. First please realize that Steven Colbert was being sarcastic when he was talking to her. He did not mean what he was saying. (In the past many of my students didn’t understand that he was being sarcastic.).She has been talking about the latent consequences of the “Damsel in Distress” representation of women in video games, death threats etc.
Explain this reaction to her and to women in the gaming industry from a Structural Functionalist perspective. What would they say about women in the gaming industry ( hint: dysfunctional).
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