Analysis of Anita Sarkeesian's 'It's game over for gamers'

Info: I choose the article” it´s game over for gamers” written by Anita Sarkeesian. The article touches on a very sensitive subject which is the female gaming culture

In the article Anita brings up some problems about the video game genre and some stereotypes. She has a lot of focus on the sexism in games and touches on the problem of girl playing video games. She says that society thinks that video games only is for boys and that girls are not suited for the industry she also briefly talks about school shooting and has some points at the end

Analytical essay:

In the article It´s game over for” gamers” Anita Sarkeesian discusses problems that in today’s society is considered a very sensitive subject. She starts the article by telling a story about how she tried to persuade her parents to buy a Gameboy which was an iPad looking thing you could play certain games on in the old days, but her parents were reluctant to by the Gameboy because of and I quote “video games would rot kids brains” she says that it was common for people to say that about video games in the 90´s. so what is wrong with this brutal statement, well in the 90´s there had not been much research and study in the video game genre people just guessed that playing video games would be bad for you. Doctors and researchers advised not to let people’s kids play the games because it would damage their brain, and every parent just bit into that myth because it was the professionals that said it was bad, the problem is they had no idea.