[Lain]

You couldn’t be more-on-the-mark, especially about the Gameboy comment. Why do they call it a GameBOY? (or a Sony WalkMAN?, don’t women use them, too?) I’ve seen news stories about how game programmers are trying to use Barbie in computer games to get women interested in technology. Well, why wouldn’t women be interested in technology? I think it’s that women aren’t interested in using technology in the same way men do. But the best ‘girls’ games that designers can come up with seem to be putting Barbie in some sort of action game. So here’s the question: Not ‘how do we get women interested in technology?’ but ‘what kinds of things do women want to do with their technology?’ Besides just wrapping the same old boys toys in pink plastic and bows…

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Name : Lain, Gender : M, Age : 23, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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