The Girl Gamer Beat
If you’re a fan of game journos and you know the name Jane Pinckard, it’s because of that article. You know the one I mean. A couple years back she wrote a blog post detailing her discovery of the peripheral-based music/action game Rez, and specifically the peripheral, which was called a “trance vibrator” and, when deployed to the crotch, sent happy sensations to the little man in her canoe. Things got wild. There were pictures.
The post was a hit. And insofar as women always cross a certain threshold when they reveal the fact that they are sexual beings and have discovered their genitals, Pinckard crossed the threshold big time. She wrote about her sexuality in relation to a videogame and it scored her lots of readers.
So I ponder, as a woman joining the community of game scribblers, if you’re expecting me to do the same. Do women who write about games have to write about sex?
