Recognition For Exceptional Women In Who’s She? On Kickstarter
November 15, 2018 by cassn
“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” – Frida Kahlo
Who's She? is a 2-player game with similar mechanics to the kid's classic Guess Who? However, in Who's She?, players are trying to guess their opponent's character from a series of extraordinary women in history.
Featuring famous women such as Malala Yousafzai, Frida Kahlo, and Amelia Earhart, questions are less about whether a character is wearing a hat, and instead focuses on accomplishments. Have they won a Nobel prize? Did they make a discovery? Were they ever a spy?
The boards are beautiful and rustically designed, containing quick facts about each female icon underneath their picture. There are also 28 biography cards to choose from, with each one containing important information about that person's life, along with facts, anecdotes, and quotes.
I think this is really cool. As a child, I remember playing Guess Who? and actively avoiding choosing the women because there were so few on the board. If your opponent asked if your character was a woman and they were right, they automatically had a 1 in 5 chance of winning.
Furthermore, even as an adult looking at this game, I didn't know some of these amazing women existed, let alone the outstanding achievements they have accomplished!
I think this is an awesome game which can provide a whole new generation of young people an opportunity to acknowledge, learn about, and be inspired by the female historical heroes who have shaped the world. If I have one criticism, it is that the price tag is a little high (although understandable for the quality). I would love to see a more financially accessible version available in the future.
Who's She? has already tripled its original Kickstarter goal and still has 21 days left until the campaign closes, so interested feminists can back the project here.
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"I didn't know some of these amazing women existed, let alone the outstanding achievements they have accomplished!"
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Wonder how long before the Daily Mail crowd come along bemoaning PCGoneMad and demanding a ‘Who’s He?’ game to compensate? Then again they probably don’t board game outside of Monopoly and Scrabble anyway, so we probably don’t have to worry about that. ?
Probably, though I wouldn’t have minded seeing this with a mix rather than one or the other.
Also, this may just be me but I always assumed Painter wasn’t really gendered to require Paintress. The word just flows oddly.
Maybe but I think the point of this is to highlight female historical figures which we probably won’t have heard about whereas we’ve heard about many many male ones.
I must politely disagree with you on the former point, as the objective of the Kickstarter is to showcase historically significant women.
However, I 100% agree on the latter point – painteress is a ridiculous and unnecessarily complex genderization of a perfectly acceptable word!!!
I’m not disputing the objective, simply that I’d rather see things trying to showcase both rather than one or the other. As their objective was to create one that showcases historical women they’ve succeeded.
Also the style of the information blocks feels slightly jarring, it may look better in person but it hurts my eyes trying to locate the various information. I’m a fan of uniformity and the jumbled nature makes me die a little inside. That’s purely an issue on my end since the style seems to be perfectly acceptable.
Could not believe they found 28 really…!!! Giggles….
Wow, a rip off of Guess Who, only sexist.