Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male

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3. Interesting article -

I've encouraged my tween with her gaming - she loves playing Minecraft in particular. She has her PC setup, a You Tube channel, and is quite an extrovert so she is often on-line interfacing with other kids about the game. I actually like her preference for Skype because we can just walk in her room and see who she is playing with (it is nice to see other 10 or 12 year old faces rather than worry there is a 45-yr old on the other end or something) - and my husband has gotten into playing w/her when he gets home from work.

I was thinking win-win in terms of her being able to enter this field as an adult because she has a very positive attitude "I want to have my own gaming company mom" - and it looks like the wave of the future. I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see these gender issues pop up though because we do hear that a lot of the current gaming execs (like Zuckerberg for example) may give to some progressive causes but at heart they are libertarian. So I will have to prepare her for what she might face.

As you might expect she is no shrinking violet though - she has a little bit of my personality in her