The games industry - an interesting statistic.

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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... e-and-male

This is something I've wondered about before. Personally, I have a friend who is looking for work in the games industry and I have noticed that a significant amount of his female friends are either gay or bi*. Further, I joined a visual effects class recently, which is composed of games design students, animation students and commercial digital design students. I have wondered about the statistical likelihood of ending up in a class with a lesbian couple (both in games design) as well as another woman (another games design student) who happens to be in a relationship with a woman. Despite the fact we're a small class. There's one other girl taking the subject (animation student) and she might be straight....if she's not then that would mean there's no straight women in my class (I'm not straight), which would be unusual. It's predominately male.

Now, I'm not trying to invalidate any straight women working in the games industry or gamers. Personally I'm a casual gamer who only owns three PC games and tries to make mobile games. Yes, yes, I know, I'm ruining the industry. I've heard that before. However, you have to start somewhere and personally I think there are some good mobile games out there (such as Among Us). Besides, I mainly work on advertising and I'm not entirely sure what direction I want to go in when I finish my final semester in a few months.

* Adding on to that thought, there's a stereotype, especially among gen Z on social media, about bisexual women often ending up with 'gamer boys'.

Maybe I am reading it wrong, but that stereotype almost seems like a fetish thing, about gamer boys fetishizing the idea of a bisexual girlfriend or something. But I probably know so little that it is just a guess that might be really misplaced.

I think it is fair to make assumptions that girls/women in general get shamed from being involved with video games. It goes back to the NES being marketed as a toy for boys after the video game crash, to ignore some stigma. It is not a huge surprise that men are feeling more welcome to join the industry. As for the women joining having a large percent that can be attracted to other women, maybe it has something to do with already being more likely to understand the distance from expected female characteristics and thus being less likely to give into pressures from joining the video game industry.

I might again not really know what I am talking about.