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Heh. Mea culpa. Okay I just scanned it for tone and missed the swerve around unionizing. Pan me quick and get it over with. Sounds like they need a union to me though.

Here's IDGA's offical column on unions and such in gaming development. http://www.igda.org/articles/msakey_qol.php They're for for unionizing.

I'm part of this informal club over at Four Fat Chicks where we get together to play games using a thread called "Never Mind the Bollocks". We post our progress, problems, etc. 3/4 of the players are women. Most are probably 35 or older. They kill with relish. Discuss frag gernades in KOTOR, ways to blow the catedreals in Fallout. Which corridor to check out in SS2. How to creep into a building in the newest Thief. A couple play Sims but has a rule it's a dead subject. Most just want exicting gameplay with half-way vivid characters. Most started on adventures and now find them lacking. Some of these women build their own computers, to varying degrees of success. Others play little known Japanese RPGs. In fact Sims discussion in the last year has arisen only once. They, women, want what everyone wants. To be involved at a human level. To be part of something rewarding. I play as well and more often then not end up somewhere in the 50th percentile ablity wise.