Why Do We Only Count in October

With the release of the Imagine series focused on girls who of course want to all be fashion designers or play with babies, I was really irritated by the video game industry and then I saw the announcement for the second Fight Like A Girl Halo Tournament. The problem is that this is a Breast Cancer Awareness Charity event taking place in October, Breast Cancer Awareness month. I am glad that there are tournaments for women and girls who play Halo, but I am troubled that this tournament is taking place in the context of a charity event. It somehow lessens the impact when it is modified by the soft and feminine blanket of a charity event, for Breast Cancer no less.

Of course there are other charity events put on in the gaming community, but there are not that many women’s only gaming events and the supposedly gender neutral events have a very skewed gender representation. I think it is great for there to be a space for women to frag with the best of them, I just wish that space was the general gaming space and not a safer charity events.