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Girls in the History of the AvP Community and Movies Since the human species 'found out' there's two genders out there, one called the other "male," and another called the other "female." Since the beginning of the computer century, the male humans have always thought that the females would not be suited for using computers, or even using any computer games. After we think about that, who would even dare to think about having females working on a computer game like AvP? Sarita Churchill, of Vivendi-Universal Well, I do, and I got proof that there are women working on AvP2! According to my research, there are plenty of women working for Fox Interactive, Sierra Studios and Vivendi-Universal in all the AvP games... Lindsey Fischer, Kristin Sutter, Kimberlee MacMullan -- Fox Interactive Rozita Tolouey, Koren Bruckner, Sarita Churchill -- Vivendi-Universal Kathy Carter, Jessica Drossin, Lauren Azeltine -- Sierra Studios David Shipley, Lone Wolf McShipley -- don't ask me; he made me write it! *Sniffles and hides* (In case I forgot anyone, please don't hate me; I'm just a KittyKid.) As we just found out, there have been quite a few women working on AvP 1 and 2, and I think they did the job just as well as a male would have...! And that means women and men have equal rights in today's gaming times, which is a good thing. *Grin* Dunya, main 'bad guy' in AvP2 Still, a lot of people from the male gender tend to say, "What's a girl doing in this game? This is a man's game!" Sure, we can find a whole lot of blood and guts, head-biting Aliens, skull-ripping Predators, machine-gunning Colonial Marines and lots and lots of dead things -- but this does not mean women can't play those games. It would be unfair, and since we aren't in the middle ages, anymore, it's even cool when girls can play such games. Okay, we are not as bloodthirsty as males, but you male readers need to admit that the few female players are kick-ass ones! Hah-hah! It's true: nearly all of the female gamers I know -- and I know a lot of them -- are very good players (well, except for me, because I suck big time! *Sniffle, whimper, cries*). Still, there's always been one thing that confused me about the gaming (and also in the AvP) community: how clans love to use female players as their flagship member. I think it's to make potential enemies think, "Hey, we're good, we're sexy and we have female players!" Of course, it's not always this way, but I've seen it enough to notice that it's a trend these days. The worse that happens these days, of course, is when a female player owns another male player. The male player then feels so ashamed, because: "She is just a girl." Most women would be angry at a comment like that... if it wasn't so funny and pathetic! The fact is, the AvP community is a heterogene community - both males and females, even though there are way more males. We try to live each other, and get past each other's prejudices. But what's the difference between male and female gamers, if there are any? Nothing that matters in a deathmatch game, I say. Advertisement Let's focus on the more or less important females in the Aliens movies, for a moment. First of all, we have Ripley: she's important, as she's the main character in the movies. Without her, the Aliens movies would not have been the same. In fact, without her, they wouldn't even make sense! I seriously doubt the movies would have been as good if Ripley would have been male, as there is a sort of mother-child relationship between her and the Aliens. Especially the scene in Alien 3, where Ripley's 'adopted' child is killed, and has to be cut open; it gave Ripley, and the movie, a warmer and more caring atmosphere that only a female could have conciliated. (Okay, a homosexual male could have managed it, too, but that is not my point! *Giggles*). We all know the movie, and we all know that the mixture of caring, motherly and somehow sexy environment made the movies great. Aliens hunting Ripley was a very cool thing, and it's just one of those things that makes me want to watch the movies again and again. Oh, and Newt? The cute, little girl that made me cry when she died? She looks almost exactly the same as I do! She was so cute in the movie, and made it so much more... well... how it basically conciliates the bound between Newt and Ripley. As a matter of a fact, in the end of my article we can say that women have always played an important role in the AvP community and in online gaming and this is something which is NOT going to change in the next years. In fact I think more and more females will join the crowd. By KittyKid Comments? Flames? Praise? Mail feedback!