All too often, videogames accentuate the difference between men and women; women characters wear pink and have long hair while the men have huge muscles and big guns. Real-life genre preferences are often accounted for by the difference between men and women’s spatial reasoning, or ability to visualize 3D space. One research study shows that the difference in spatial skills may not be wholly innate, and that playing a videogame can improve these skills. The primary researcher, Jing Feng, explained his findings. On average, women are not quite as good at rapidly switching attention among different objects and this may…