Gender Representation in Magic the Gathering
Many different games are understood to oversexualize women, which is a major component of sexism in the gaming industry. Everywhere you look you in video games you see women with humongous breasts bursting out of their armor that can’t actually protect them. This is quite problematic and causes issues such as different expectations from the people playing the games. Body shaming becomes a major issue that cannot be dodged. Other times a game contributes to sexism just from the lack of female representation? In this post I will discuss the importance of female presence in games that mimic the real world and how this lack of representation in Magic the Gathering has contributed to sexism in the gaming industry. As a young boy I didn’t play many medieval card games or board games, but most of my friends did. It wasn’t until I got to college though, that games like Magic the Gathering became a very big part of...