Have you ever thought that WHY gaming industry doesn’t have much women? Nothing just “is”, it comes to be somehow.

My mother is an engineer. When in high-school when she expressed the desire to go study engineering everyone from her teachers to her parents belittled her and told it wasn’t possible. This was the mid 80’s.
She was the only woman in engineering classes in University, and she was all the time put down by her professors and peers. The further she progressed the more she faced prejudice. Even in job interviews she faced the same doubting of her qualifications and it was hard to get a job.

So why is gaming industry male dominated? Because women know that if they’d pursue a career path in game making, they could face continuous doubting, remarks and even harassment and hostility.

All of those negative things are now coming to light and a serious discussion is happening, which is necessary for the gaming industry to evolve for the better so that they won’t lose any potential great talents over petty prejudices!

And seriously “feminist propaganda trying to make men look disposable”? Grow up, that is so childish. 😛 Feminism is not about “pitting genders against one another”, it’s about resolving systematic problems that EACH of the genders face.

We are finally having an open important discussion about not judging a person’s potential by who they are, but rather by their talent! Maybe it doesn’t concern you, but it concerns so many other people.

And do remember this interview is about Maxis not the Sims 4.

Take it with a grain of salt, though some of the discussion confirms that the artists portfolio worked quite a bit on TS3 and expansion packs.

As a woman, I think having equal rights and equal opportunities to men is extremely important, however I despise feminism, or at least what feminism has become. It’s merely another version of racism. It desperately tries to make males look useless/disposable. It pits males and females against each other making everyone adversarial, and even destroys families (I’ve seen it happen more than once personally). None of this is a good thing… at all.

If more men are making a video game that I play than women, I’m totally comfortable with that. Fact is, more men work within the gaming industry. I think we all need to just accept this. It’s one of those “why fix what isn’t broken” situations. If more women worked on TS3, would it have been a stronger game? We’ll never know. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great to see women getting positive recognition, but not just because they’re women — because they’re talented at what they do. And you know what, men need recognition too. Like I said, I’m all for equality. We’re all human beings — we should all treat each other as such. One reason I play video games is to get away from this crap. 😛

The idea that they’re still showing us the same old pictures from last summer in this article simply in bad taste. Fans of The Sims who check here regularly for new info are tired just of this — and have every right to be.