[quoting Mindrup, 10 Dec 98.a] The video game industry will go on as it does, but educational software should be held accountable and to a higher standard of gender awareness--or. I should say, unawareness. We have the opportunity to avoid labeling males and females according to their society-imposed roles and capabilities. We should hold the industry to a standard of gender fairness and equality. Computer technology has the potential to be a genderless tool, it is crucial to realize this early on, so young girls will not be excluded in yet another realm of society.
You say "educational software should be held accountable and to a higher standard of gender awareness." I'm sure we all couldn't agree more with that. You also say "Computer technology has the potential to be a genderless tool, it is crucial to realize this early on, so young girls will not be excluded in yet another realm of society". This statement tends to veer off from gender in games and into issues of sexism in modern society, which I think is inappropriate. Do you feel your comments are appropriate when you are, after all, discussing gender awareness?