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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
I agree, it is time for female players, coaches and front offices people to be added.
And it would hardly be cutting edge. Football Manager added female pronouns and staff many years ago and it for the typical misogynistic pushback but the developers did it anyways.
Now it is just another part of the game.
FIFA added women’s national teams many versions ago. It is only a matter of time before they add leagues like the women’s premier league, women’s Bundesliga and the new NWSL.
NBA 2K last year added the WNBA. And for the current version greatly expanded that. Now you can be the GM of a WNBA team or use the MYplayer mode to create a women’s player and be a rookie drafted into the WNBA and play out your carrer.
I think OOTP has grown to where it is now time.
And this stuff matters. I have a young daughter and son. My daughter gets to see people like her represented in video games which are an important part of her life. It may sound like a small thing but it’s not. I can see how it affects her.
And my son also sees women in games and is going to grow up in a world where he sees women as equals in every field of life.
We teach him this anyways, but it is nice when media that he consumes reinforces this.
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I really appreciate this contribution, you said this all better than I could have
As you said, media representation reinforces our ideas about the world and what is 'normal' or 'possible'. There are so many amazing people doing the ground work for making female and others' inclusion in baseball a reality, but this, I hope, can help move the needle in its own right ^_^