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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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a chicken-or-egg thing

0Dear friends,02br
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00The author was talking about the reason why there are so few women working in the computer game industry:02br
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01font00"It's not so much that women look at the computer game industry and discard the idea of working in it. It's that the computer game industry just never even comes up on their 01font00radar02font00. ...02font02br
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01font00It's a 01font00chicken-or-egg thing02font00. If more women were playing games, they might get interested in computer games as a medium and might choose to pursue that as a career. But it's still stigmatized as boy thing."02font02br
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001)I know "01font00It's that the computer game industry just never even comes up on their 02font01font00radar " 02font00means that "the computer game industry hasn't drawn women's attention". But I'm not sure about the figure of speech of "01font00radar02font00" here. Is it a metaphor?02br
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002)I know there is a famous question in philosophy, that is "which is first, the chicken or the egge". But I still can't relate that question to the context. In the context, the author is sure "women playing computer games" will lead to "they work in the field of computer games". It doesn't involve a question. Right?02br
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003)In addtion, what kind of figure of speech is used by using "01font01font00a02font00 02font01font00chicken-or-egg thing"?02font02br
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00A million thanks.02br
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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anonymous12cite 10Dear friends,12br 12br 10The author was talking about the reason why there are so few women working in the computer game industry:12br 12br 11font 10"It's not so much that women look at the computer game industry and discard the idea of working in it. It's that the computer game industry just never even comes up on their 11font 10radar12font 10. 12font 12br 12br 11font 10It's a 11font 10chicken-or-egg thing12font 10.

— Philip

  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anonymous12cite 10Dear friends,12br 12br 10The author was talking about the reason why there are so few women working in the computer game industry:12br 12br 11font 10"It's not so much that women look at the computer game industry and discard the idea of working in it.
  • It's that the computer game industry just never even comes up on their 11font 10radar12font 10.
  • 12font 12br 12br 11font 10It's a 11font 10chicken-or-egg thing12font 10.
  • If more women were playing games, they might get interested in computer games as a medium and might choose to pursue that as a career.
  • "12font 12br 12br 101)I know "11font 10It's that the computer game industry just never even comes up on their 12font 11font 10radar " 12font 10means that "the computer game industry hasn't drawn women's attention".
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Dear friends,12br
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10The author was talking about the reason why there are so few women working in the computer game industry:12br
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11font10"It's not so much that women look at the computer game industry and discard the idea of working in i
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