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Is the games industry institutionally sexist?

A bold question I know, but please bear with me.

This started as an update to this post but I realised that once I had written over eleven paragraphs it probably needed its own URL. Right, deep breath, here goes…

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I’d like you all to read ‘In which I don’t try to write like a man’ by Margaret Robertson. Margaret is both a leading games writer and development director of Hide & Seek. It is her response to Mark Sorrell’s blog post ‘Dear Men, Please Listen. Love, Man‘ and also a discussion thread about his article on Reddit.
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In response to: ‘Dear Men, Please Listen. Love, Man’

Once again it started with a Tweet from the loveable Bill Thompson, writing:

Reckon @Doctoe will find @Sorrell piece of interest: Dear Men, please listen. Love,Man http://www.bewareofthesorrell.com/2011/12/dear-men-please-listen-love-man.html

To explain, @doctoe (Jo Twist) is leaving Channel 4 in January to become CEO of UKIE, the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment. @sorrell (Mark Sorrell) is Head of Games at Screenpop.
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