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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Jenny of the Prairie
Message-ID: <551@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 18:49:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 18:49:21 1984
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Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
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Summary: 

(A review of a game, Jennie of the  Prairie was posted. JotP is a 
non-competitive game put out by a software company aiming at providing
games that will appeal to their conception of what "women" play like.
The review was posted without comment;  it isn't clear whether we
are supposed to approve the company for publishing non-violent games
or condemn them for their outmoded picture of women...)

Actually, my favorite games are non-competitive.  Atari Skiing is my
idea of the perfect video game.  Role-playing games, although often
containing elements of conflict, cannot be considered to be
competitive.  Role-playing games are one of the most popular "growth"
areas around.  How is "Trivial Pursuit" competitive?  All the women
I know of who can play Rogue, (1) do, and (2) do it to excess.
In general, the assertion that there is some difference in how
men and women play, and particularly in how their tastes for
video games runs, would appear to be ill-founded.
	I suspect that you can still find a difference in the number of
adolescent males and adolescent females in video arcades, but that
this is due more to the unease between the sexes that exists at that
age than to any difference in preferences.  



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"Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore." -- John Prine

Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
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