rainbowworrier

Hi Mia! I knew your name rang a bell from somewhere; it turns out I was interviewed for your paper "The sexi(e)st of all: Avatars, gender, and online games". It's really weird to think that comments I made over a decade ago are being used for scholarly research now!

At the time, one of the conclusions that your paper reached was that the women interviewed cared less about any inherent sexism in a game's available avatar/character/gear design, and more about the game itself. Since that study, there's been a much larger conversation regarding women in gaming, both as players and as characters, and also an increase in what types of characters can be made and used as an avatar. What sorts of trends have you noticed in avatar/gear design in the last decade or so, and have you noticed any interesting correlations between the advances in character-creation technology and the types of avatars that are being created?

Hopefully that question made sense. Thanks for the AMA!

hi don, thank you for doing another ama. i have been following your work since the early 00s when i was in high school. in a lot of ways, your work has had a huge impact on my life. i have an "everything will be ok" tattoo. i really don't think that young me watching 'rejected' in poor quality in someone's basement would have believed that if i told her. thank you for continuing to create.

kinda in that vein, my question for you is what is something in your life that you would never have anticipated the effect it would have on you?

thanks again, even if you don't answer, and i hope you have a good day despite the head cold.