--- title: Five Best Ideas: How To Gauge Sexism in Video Games description: How could we gauge sexism in video games, loneliness is the biggest threat facing middle-aged men and more. canonical: https://time.com/4698016/how-to-gauge-sexism-in-video-games/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-10T17:00:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:00.844Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Gauge Sexism in Video Games og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4698016/how-to-gauge-sexism-in-video-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Gauge Sexism in Video Games twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Gauge Sexism in Video Games by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 10, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 10, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How could we gauge sexism in video games?**](https://mic.com/articles/170646/bechdel-test-for-gaming-zelda-mario-grand-theft-auto#.QA67e4AiS) By Tim Mulkerin in _Mic_ **2\.** [**The biggest threat facing middle-aged men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness.**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/03/09/the-biggest-threat-facing-middle-age-men-isn-smoking-obesity-loneliness/k6saC9FnnHQCUbf5mJ8okL/story.html) By Billy Baker in the _Boston Globe_ **3\.** [**A splash of river water now reveals the DNA of all its creatures — changing conservation forever.**](http://e360.yale.edu/features/edna-rivers-fish-bull-trout-forest-service) By Jim Robbins in _Yale Environment 360_ **4\.** [**Securing the homeland should mean protecting our values, too.**](https://www.lawfareblog.com/safeguarding-our-homeland-and-protecting-our-values) By Jeh Johnson at the _Oxford Union, via Lawfare_ **5\.** [**The CIA needs a refresher on the art of spying.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/cia-art-spying-espionage-spies-military-terrorism-214875) By Alex Finley in _Politico Magazine_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4698016/how-to-gauge-sexism-in-video-games/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4698016/how-to-gauge-sexism-in-video-games/"},"headline":"How To Gauge Sexism in Video Games","datePublished":"2017-03-10T17:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:00.844Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4698016/how-to-gauge-sexism-in-video-games/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Environment","Innovation","Video Games","Security","CIA","loneliness"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4698016/how-to-gauge-sexism-in-video-games/","name":"How To Gauge Sexism in Video Games"}}]}] ```