Suppressed feminism: China’s gaming industry is too gender insensitive
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, argued that feminism poses the biggest threat to China’s authoritarian regime, which is partly why it has faced such high censorship. Prominent activists have been detained.
Last year, a ruling party-affiliated think-tank blamed “the spread of radical feminism" for having a negative impact on China’s birth rate. The World Economic Forum ranked China 106 out of 146 countries on its 2024 Global Gender Gap index.
Women are increasingly active gaming consumers: The growth rate of new female gamers in Asia is nearly double that of males. It’s unwise of Game Science to dismiss the Wukong controversy as feminist propaganda or part of a Western DEI agenda, especially as Chinese companies look abroad to boost revenues.
Instead of suppressing this dialogue, gaming studios should drive the narrative. ©bloomberg
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