All the Ways Video Games (and Gamers) Are Portrayed in Media

Women Don’t Play Games

Of all the ways gamers and gaming culture are still portrayed in mainstream media, you’d have your work cut out for you if you wanted to find some great examples of women in the media playing video games. In fact, mainstream media is far more likely to play up the idea that a woman being a gamer as an anomaly than it is to simply have a female gamer present without a shtick. The truly ironic part of it all is that women actually represent far more of the gaming community than most people think. In a 2015 Pew Research Center survey, 42 percent of the participants who owned a gaming console identified as female and statistics released earlier this year found that 41% of gamers are female.