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Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 3 days ago

Report: Nearly half of US adolescents avoid games that portray women in "stereotypical and harmful ways"

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Report: Nearly half of US adolescents avoid games that portray women in "stereotypical and harmful ways"

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Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 3 days ago

New study also finds that 47.8% of respondents struggled to find characters that represent them

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I would imagine that they didn’t define the term on the questionnaire and just asked if they avoided games for that reason.

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