> By looking at video games, you only get to know video game
> manufacturers's ideas of male fantasies: "According to NPD Group, a
> market research firm based in New York, some 81 percent of video game
> players are male";
Way too high. Most of the numbers I've seen put the figure at 60-40 or 65-35 male-to-female. Sports and action game are very male-dominated, but other genres are not -- the Sims games, for example, are gender balanced: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5113554/
More to the point, videogames are much more than testosterone-fueled fantasies of destruction. They're complex aesthetic documents, with all the contradictions of the society which produced them.
The IGDA, the game developers' trade association, has some info on gender equity here: http://www.igda.org/women/
-- DRR