Article notwithstanding (I admittedly only skimmed it and in retrospect it was probably a bad example), but in general, while society tolerates women in the workplace more today than in the past, there is still a HUGE double standard.
Okay so you were just looking for an example of chauvinism in the game or in player attitudes? I just wasn't sure what you were getting at.
Women have always been in the workplace- in medieval society they often worked right beside their husbands and took over their husbands' trade if they died, in industrial society women worked in factories, and in agriculture women have always shared the labor load. It's a misconstrual that we're re-inventing the wheel. Much "traditional" thinking is simply an orientation towards survival. Only women can bear children and nurse them, so it naturally puts them in the home sphere more often and they and small children are thus more vulnerable. This is not an arrangement that worked out too great for men, either, since overwhelmingly throughout history it has been men doing the fighting of wars and the dying in them, and men in the most dangerous jobs. But all this is off topic. Gaming is hardly as serious as how society has structured itself to survive.
If anything, I guess some women would feel guilty spending a lot of free time with a controller in their hands. I know I start thinking about dishes and vacuuming. Just thinking, mind you, not necessarily doing anything about it. lol
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