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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:08 The most exciting and interesting thing
00:11 that I've seen happening is we are
00:13 starting to see young women playing
00:15 games in equal numbers to men.
00:18 And yet, there is active and regular abuse
00:23 directed toward women.
00:25 We got images of women who'd been raped,
00:28 images of mutilated women's bodies.
00:30 Every time I opened my mouth to say, hey, dude,
00:32 there's someone coming up behind you, it was, shut up, bitch.
00:35 Shut up, bitch.
00:36 Shut up.
00:38 So it's remarkable how quickly people
00:40 take offense that someone with two X chromosomes
00:44 would play this game.
00:45 There was something saying that he
00:47 wants to wait outside in the bushes
00:50 while my children are at school and kill them to show them
00:52 that they should have been aborted.
00:54 I mean, really, really horrific stuff.
00:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:59 You'd be hard-pressed to find a kid growing up today
01:02 that doesn't play games of some sort, male or female.
01:05 The industry is actually at the beginning stages
01:08 of transforming and changing into a more inclusive space.
01:11 Compared to the other industries,
01:12 we're still quite young.
01:14 There are no maps for these territories.
01:17 You have one population sort of knocking
01:20 into another population, which is reality.
01:24 And it's not so much that they're
01:25 against more inclusionary games and design and marketing.
01:30 It's just this sense that the thing they love
01:32 is changing for a reason that they don't value.
01:35 Occasionally to this day, someone still
01:37 sort of gets real mad about a thing that
01:39 happened three years ago.
01:42 In order to stay into games, you either
01:44 have to be in kind of a vacuum situation
01:46 where you're like, I had no idea that other people were
01:49 like this, or you just have to be
01:52 willing to take shit forever.
01:54 [LAUGHS]
01:54 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:58 What in God's name is going wrong?
02:03 Unfortunately, the answer is a lot of different things.
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