Has anyone ever told you that women are bad drivers? Does that confuse the heck out of you? Alternatively, do you love sweet, sweet manly destruction in racing games?
Answer “yes” to any of the above and it’s your lucky day. This week at Joystiq is a column of mine about the gender lines of real-life driving and racing games alike. Down with the female-driver slander; up with the Hello Kitty race cars!


Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games journalist who contributes regularly to publications like The Economist, Forbes, and The Village Voice. By day she's also a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, gender, sexuality, surrealism and perversion. You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] AT gmail DOT com.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:47 am
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