It's not skimpy outfits that are considered demeaning for female characters in video game, but the dialogue that is directed at them. During the Women in Film, Games and New Media event at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, female gaming industry professional Leigh Alexander said: "I don't like it when conversations get sidetracked onto how sexy images of women or how the women themselves are or aren't allowed to be." Demeaning dialogue in the video game is directed at female characters. In the world of online mulitplayer gaming, any gamer identifying herself as female has catcalls and insults directed at her during the game, and is harassed afterwards.
Meanwhile The Montreal Gazette of Canada reports that even though female gamers are now the fastest-growing video game consumers, there is a shortage of female gaming industry professionals. At the Montreal International Game Summit there were very few female participants or speakers. "It's something we have recognized as an issue and it's something that we're working on," Danielle Parr, executive director of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, which launched a public awareness campaign last year to attract women to the video game industry.
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