{"id":105,"date":"2012-07-04T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-07-08T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T09:26:43","slug":"femmes-jeux-et-statistiques-women-games-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/femmes-jeux-et-statistiques-women-games-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Femmes, jeux et statistiques<br> <i> Women, games and statistics<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Je ne doute gu\u00e8re que, comme ce fut le cas en son temps pour La Vall\u00e9e des mammouths, Speed Dating, qui devrait sortir \u00e0 l\u2019automne, va \u00eatre accus\u00e9 d&#8217;\u00eatre un jeu sexiste. \u00a0Ceux qui me connaissent un peu savent que sexisme et f\u00e9minisme sont des sujets sur lesquels je peux disserter pendant des heures, et ne s&#8217;\u00e9tonneront donc pas que je profite de l&#8217;occasion et me d\u00e9fende par avance.<\/p>\n<p>Parce que l&#8217;histoire de notre culture, et de quelques autres, est assez largement l&#8217;histoire de la domination masculine, sexisme est souvent devenu synonyme de misogynie, de m\u00e9pris ou d&#8217;hostilit\u00e9 envers les femmes. De ce point de vue, Speed Dating est inattaquable, puisque la co-autrice, l\u2019\u00e9ditrice et l\u2019illustratrice en sont des femmes &#8211; m\u00eame si l&#8217;on peut m&#8217;objecter que l&#8217;argument est du m\u00eame poids que celui des racistes qui affirment que certains de leurs meilleurs amis sont noirs.<\/p>\n<p>Surtout, s&#8217;il y a dans la boite 150 cartes qui se moquent des femmes, il y en a aussi 150 qui se moquent des hommes. Speed Dating respecte donc bien strictement la parit\u00e9, bien plus que Citadelles, un jeu que nul n&#8217;a jamais accus\u00e9 de sexisme (on l&#8217;a en revanche accus\u00e9 d&#8217;antis\u00e9mitisme, ce qui m\u2019a laiss\u00e9 pantois&#8230;.) malgr\u00e9 ses deux personnages f\u00e9minins sur dix-huit.<\/p>\n<p>Au sens strict, le sexisme n&#8217;est pourtant pas la misogynie, mais la discrimination entre les sexes, ou simplement l&#8217;ensemble des \u00a0lieux communs sur les hommes et les femmes, \u00e0 commencer par l&#8217;id\u00e9e qu&#8217;hommes et femmes sont fondamentalement diff\u00e9rents. Or les clich\u00e9s sexistes, il y en a sans aucun doute dans Speed Dating, il n&#8217;y a m\u00eame presque que cela. Je doute cependant qu&#8217;il y ait beaucoup de joueurs pour ne pas comprendre que, si ces clich\u00e9s suscitent la bonne humeur et sont un bon moteur de jeu, c&#8217;est justement parce qu&#8217;ils sont parodiques et ne peuvent pas \u00eatre pris trop au s\u00e9rieux. Essayez de jouer \u00e0 ce jeu s\u00e9rieusement, vous ennuierez tr\u00e8s vite. Les quelques critiques essuy\u00e9es de la part de testeurs (ou plus souvent de testeuses) ont d\u2019ailleurs \u00e9t\u00e9 balay\u00e9es par les premiers \u00e9clats de rire.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 plusieurs reprises sur mon site, je me suis interrog\u00e9 sur la place des femmes dans le petit monde du jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9, une place certes encore minoritaire, mais en croissance tr\u00e8s rapide, tant parmi les joueurs que parmi les auteurs et les \u00e9diteurs. Pourquoi, donc, ne pas s&#8217;int\u00e9resser aussi a la place des femmes dans les jeux eux-m\u00eames? Voici quelques statistiques sur la parit\u00e9 dans les pions et personnages de mes jeux.<\/p>\n<p><strong>La parit<\/strong><strong>\u00e9<\/strong><strong> dans mes jeux :<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"white\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">Cartes ou pions hommes<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">Cartes ou pions femmes<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">% hommes<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">% femmes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Speed Dating<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">150<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">150<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">50%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Lost Temple<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">8<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">2<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">80%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Agent Double<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">3<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">3<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">50%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Pony Express<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">5<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">0<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">100%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Novembre Rouge<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">8<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">0<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">100%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Chicago Poker<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">13<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">2<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">87%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Tomahawk<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">47<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">8<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">85%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Hollywood<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">9<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">2<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">82%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Toc Toc Toc<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">40<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">15<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">73%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Mission Plan\u00e8te Rouge<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">8<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">1<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">89%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Le Collier de la Reine<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">32<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">4<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">89%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Aux Pierres du Dragon<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">18<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">4<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">82%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Draco &amp; Co<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">12<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">4<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">75%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Myst\u00e8re \u00e0 l&#8217;Abbaye<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">24<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">0<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">100%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Castel<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">29<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">7<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">81%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">Citadelles<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">16<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">2<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">89%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\">La Vall\u00e9e des Mammouths<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">61<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">37<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">62%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\">38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Tout cela ne prouve pas n\u00e9cessairement que je sois un affreux macho puisque, apr\u00e8s avoir compt\u00e9 les cartes de Toc Toc Toc, j\u2019ai eu la curiosit\u00e9 de compter celle de son voisin sur mon \u00e9tag\u00e8re, et son camarade dans la petite collection d\u2019Asmod\u00e9e, l\u2019excellent Fantasy de mon amie Sylvie Barc, qui ne fait pas beaucoup mieux \u2013 40 hommes pour 15 femmes dans Toc Toc Toc, 40 hommes pour 16 femmes dans Fantasy. Ce n\u2019est donc pas comme en litt\u00e9rature, o\u00f9 les femmes ont plus souvent tendance \u00e0 mettre en sc\u00e8ne des femmes, et les hommes des hommes.<\/p>\n<p>Dans aucune de mes cr\u00e9ations, je n\u2019ai d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment cherch\u00e9 \u00e0 mettre une majorit\u00e9 de personnages masculins, sauf bien s\u00fbr dans Myst\u00e8re \u00e0 l\u2019Abbaye. Dans certains, comme Chicago Poker, Lost Temple, ou Tomahawk, le choix ne vient pas de moi mais de l\u2019illustrateur, et le r\u00e9sultat n\u2019est pas bien diff\u00e9rent. Cela en dit donc sans doute moins sur moi et mes jeux, que je ne consid\u00e8re en rien comme sexistes, que sur notre imaginaire \u00e0 tous, hommes et femmes.<\/p>\n<p>Alors, l&#8217;explication ? Le sexisme &#8220;fossilis\u00e9&#8221;, plus instructif que g\u00eanant, peut expliquer l&#8217;absence de parit\u00e9 dans Castel ou Citadelles. Dans un univers m\u00e9di\u00e9val, m\u00eame fantastique, la forte proportion de personnages masculins tient moins aux caract\u00e9ristiques de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 actuelle qu\u2019\u00e0 celles de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e. L&#8217;excuse vaut pourtant plus difficilement pour Le Temple Perdu, et certainement pas pour Mission Plan\u00eate Rouge &#8211; m\u00eame si pour ce dernier, comme pour La Vall\u00e9e des Mammouths, je revendique le second degr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>J\u2019aurais pu, et je me souviens y avoir pens\u00e9 pour Citadelles et Lost Temple, faire l&#8217;effort de parvenir \u00e0 la parit\u00e9 homme-femme dans les personnages. Si je ne l&#8217;ai pas fait, c&#8217;est parce que c&#8217;est un peu comme la parit\u00e9 en politique: si elle est artificielle, forc\u00e9e, elle est ridicule et peut-\u00eatre contre-productive. Il faudrait qu&#8217;elle vienne suffisamment spontan\u00e9ment pour que l&#8217;on ne s&#8217;en pr\u00e9occupe pas, ce qui, comme le montre clairement mes statistiques, n&#8217;est pas le cas. Je sais, \u00e7a tourne en rond.<\/p>\n<p>Bien s\u00fbr la question, n\u2019est pas seulement de savoir quel est le poids des femmes dans mes jeux, mais aussi quelle est l\u2019image qui en est donn\u00e9e. Fort heureusement, je peux ici me d\u00e9fausser de toute responsabilit\u00e9 sur mes ami(e)s illustrateurs. C&#8217;est ce que je ferai plus en d\u00e9tail d&#8217;ici un ou deux jours dans le prochain article de ce blog, le temps que je finisse de fouiller mon disque dur \u00e0 la recherche de toutes les illustrations compromettantes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m sure that, as it has been the case a few years ago with Valley of the Mammoths, Speed Dating will be accused of being a sexist game. My friends know that sexism, feminism and the question of women identity are issues I can discuss for hours. They won&#8217;t be surprised if I try, and I hope manage, to exonerate myself in advance<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Male domination has left a strong mark in the history of western culture, as of several other ones. That&#8217;s why sexism has often become a synonym of misogyny, of specific contempt for or hostility towards women. Speed Dating cannot be attacked on this ground. I&#8217;ve designed it with a woman, Nathalie, and it will be published by another one, St\u00e9phanie &#8211; unless you consider this point to be of little more value than the usual &#8220;some of my best friends are black&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A more solid argument is that if 150 cards in the game make fun of women, 150 other cards make fun of men in a very similar way. Speed Dating is strictly respectful of male-female parity, much more than Citadels, which has never been suspected of being sexist (though it was suspected of being antisemitic, which let me flabbergasted !) &#8211; with its 16 male characters and its 2 female characters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Strictly speaking, sexism isn&#8217;t misogyny but discrimination between the sexes, or belief in and use of male and female stereotypes &#8211; starting with the most basic one, the idea that men and women are fundamentally different. Well, there&#8217;s little else than rough male and female clich\u00e9s in Speed Dating &#8211; except for a few homosexual clich\u00e9s. On the other hand, I strongly doubt anyone can play the game and take theses clich\u00e9s seriously. They are the game&#8217;s core engine, and this engine works only because they are parodic. Try to play Speed Dating seriously, and you&#8217;ll soon get bored.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve already written a few articles about the place of women in the boardgaming world. They are a minority, but a fast growing one, be it among gamers, designers or publishers. But what about the place of women in the games themselves ? Here are some statistics of male \/ female distribution in the cards and tokens of some of my games :<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Male &#8211; Female character distribution in my games<\/strong><strong> :<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"white\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>Male cards or tokens<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>Female cards or tokens<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>Male (%)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>Female (%)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Speed Dating<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>150<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>150<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>50%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>50%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Lost Temple<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>8<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>2<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>80%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>20%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Double Agent<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>3<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>3<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>50%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>50%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Pony Express<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>5<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>0<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>100%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>0%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Red November<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>8<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>0<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>100%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>0%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Chicago Poker<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>13<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>2<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>87%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>13%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Tomahawk<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>47<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>8<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>85%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>15%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Hollywood<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>9<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>2<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>82%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>18%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Knock Knock!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>40<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>15<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>73%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>27%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Mission : Red Planet<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>8<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>1<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>89%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>11%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Queen&#8217;s Necklace<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>32<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>4<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>89%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>11%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Fist of Dragonstones<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>18<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>4<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>82%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>18%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Draco &amp; Co<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>12<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>4<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>75%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>25%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Mystery of the Abbey<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>24<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>0<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>100%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>0%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Castle<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>29<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>7<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>81%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>19%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Citadels<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>16<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>2<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>89%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>11%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"160\"><em>Valley of the Mammoths<br \/>\n<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>61<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>37<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>62%<\/em><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"57\"><em>38%<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>This doesn&#8217;t necessarily prove that I&#8217;m a dreadful male chauvinist. After checking the cards in Knock-knock, I also counted the cards in Fantasy, the card game designed by my friend Sylvie Barc and published in France in the same series. Sylvie doesn&#8217;t do much better than me : there are 40 males for 15 females in Knock Knock!, 40 males for 16 females in Fantasy. It\u2019s not with games like with novels \u2013 women\u2019s novels have far more women main characters than men\u2019s novels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I never deliberately placed a majority of men in my games &#8211; with the obvious exception of Mystery of the Abbey. In some games, like Chicago Poker, Lost Temple or Tomahawk, the distribution was not made by me but by the illustrator, and the result is not statistically different. This tells very little about me and my games, but it tells something about our &#8211; men and women&#8217;s &#8211; imaginary world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, what ? \u201cFossilized\u201d sexism might explain the unbalance in Castle or Citadels. In a medieval setting, even a mildly fantastic one, the unbalance might be less in our society than in the past society used as a game\u2019s setting. Unfortunately, this excuse won\u2019t work for Lost Temple, and even less for Mission Red Planet and its Femme Fatale \u2013 but for this one, as for Valley of the Mammoths, I think I can rightly claim that, like for the male\/female relation in Valley of the Mammoths, it must be taken with a pinch of salt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I could have opted for a strict male-female parity in my games. I remember considering it for both Citadels and Lost Temple. I didn&#8217;t do it because, like parity in politics,\u00a0 it&#8217;s a conundrum. If it&#8217;s constrained, it&#8217;s just artificial, unconvincing and might be counter-productive. If it&#8217;s not constrained, it&#8217;s spontaneous and there&#8217;s no need bothering about it. Though it obviously doesn\u2019t work that way so far<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have only considered so far the proportion of women in the character cards from my games, but I could also have discussed the image of women given by these cards. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do in my next blog post, in a few days, after I&#8217;ve found all the compromising pictures lost in the depths of my hard disk. Of course, I&#8217;ll blame everything on the illustrators.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je ne doute gu\u00e8re que, comme ce fut le cas en son temps pour La Vall\u00e9e des mammouths, Speed Dating, qui devrait sortir \u00e0 l\u2019automne, va \u00eatre accus\u00e9 d&#8217;\u00eatre un jeu sexiste. \u00a0Ceux qui me connaissent un peu savent que &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/femmes-jeux-et-statistiques-women-games-and-statistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[124,254,349],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-monde-du-jeu-game-trends-and-styles","category-speed-dating","tag-femmes-et-jeux-women-and-games","tag-politics","tag-speed-dating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}