![]() ![]() A spin-off of the highly popular Fallout game series, this mobile game is all about keeping your dwellers happy and working, and increasing the number of dwellers living in your shelter. It’s a fabulous example of how the way society perceives or treats some women can work to the detriment of all women, and the pervasive, systematic discrimination that results. Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play sim game by Bethesda where players try to construct an underground fallout shelter for their dwellers. In a stroke, with one unnecessary design decision (pregnant women no longer fight ), Fallout Shelter has turned me into a systematic, discriminatory misogynist. It has become my default decision: men get the best outfits and the best guns, because some women might, some day, get pregnant. I don’t have to remember to make changes. Any time a woman gets pregnant I have to check her weapon change it give her powerful gun to someone who won’t run screaming from a fight. Women will fight just as well as men (until they get knocked up). Of course, I don’t need to discriminate against ALL women only the pregnant ones. I know that even if he becomes a father, he will still fight off Radroaches. In fact, most of my female dwellers have no weapons, and none of them have high powered weapons. So Denise, who is one of my best characters, doesn’t have a weapon. When a Radroach attacks, or raiders raid, or fires break out, they put their hands in the air and run screaming for safety. She works effectively in my water treatment works and can hold her own in a fight against invading Radroaches. (If you haven’t played Fallout, those bars above the letters SPECIAL represent attributes such as Strength, Charisma and Luck). She is a powerful Dweller with high stats. ![]() All because of one simple design decision. It has also made me into a misogynistic manager who systematically discriminates against women. ![]()
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