#I love making randomly selected characters kiss like barbies

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Go Girls Games

yes i did just play a bunch of girls games

I came for this website because it is labelled for girls and I remember playing these games as a child although the games I played today were terrifying and should not be advertised to anyone.

This website is Go Girls Games which is a website advertised to girls and for girls and there are 5 main categories for these games

Dress up Games

Skill

Simulator

Cooking

Room Decoration

Skill games has a range of puzzle games for girls- no fault there- except the ones that will probably draw girls in the most are probably the least skillful I.E Ice Queen Dress up which i played and involved me finding 6 objects in the picture and then dressing her up. not exactly skill building if you ask me.

Now Simulator games had the range of games shown below:

Kissing Games

Love Games

Baby Games

which is quite honestly an absolutely terrifying selection of simulations. 

Now while playing one of the dress up games - aside from noticing the range of ‘nerd- to popular- games there were and this idea that being smart is some how ugly and must be altered still attacking girls- I clicked on a randomly harmless game about disney princess going to school.

My problems did not lie with the tight fitted, mid rift revealing clothing because I believe that a bit of my project will look at this idea of slut shaming and ‘your skirt is too short’ mantra that most teenage girls will get at some point in there lies. To some extent this is the fashion. The problem I had was this loading screen:

The problem was minor and probably not noticeable but I guess i’m so used to noticing this blue vs pink now de to this project that this stuck out. 

The blue side- blue being associated with boys- has reference to strategy and learning and education and science. 

The Pink side- pink being heavily associated with girls- has make up and nail polish and lips. 

It almost gives the idea that this is some how to separate worlds. Being pretty and being smart.

This game made me laugh- Emma cheating on liam which involved clicking the mouse to flirt with the boy behind you so your boyfriend liam doesn't see.

Although a bit of fun, this pink clad blonde highlights this idea of needing a man to young girls and to be honest I found this showed no skill or involved no thought. What kind of message do these type of games send to girls?

This game was terrifying. Tinkerbell Sauna game was suggested to me multiple times. And this is just a screenshot of what the game was. 

After showering down tinkerbell, tanning her, this screenshot shows me shaving her armpits. Tinkerbell has the audience of 8 year olds. why are we encouraging them to shave their armpits?

Furthermore we then kiss a pixie in the sauna and towel them down. Honestly this game was terrifying and again makes me wonder what kind of message does this send to children??

The final game I played was my worst nightmare of encouraging young girls to feel insecure. NERDY GIRL - FAT to FIT

This game entailed removing of glasses and braces and then helping a young healthy girl go from so called ‘fat’ to fit. 

the fact that this girl was not fat in the first place sets off so many alarm-bells because this puts the idea in the head very early on that glasses aren’t beautiful, braces aren’t beautiful but also that girls as skinny as this animated character is are considered ‘fat’. It is games like this, barbie, magazines and tv shows that all play a part in this idea that young girls aren’t good enough.

My final problem with this game is the calorie counting that is shown. Every exercise you perform you cannot complete until the calories have been burned. highlighting this unhealthy obsession that can lead to eating disorders in both men and women.

Now 

My ideas that came from this are a glitch art type thing like with my music tech project except doing the video as well-

I have a book on digital art from the library so will have a look in there. This was mainly for research but because I couldn’t show the video I decided to explain the screenshots. - the video is only a sped of version of me playing.