Christa Phillips helps turn gender tide in online games

Xbox Live’s hippest girl gamer got a feature in the web edition of the Chicago Tribune yesterday (September 10, 2007) where she wasted no time in alerting the hordes of mostly male gamers that they’re still being rude pricks:

“For some women, the minute they open their mouths, they get trash-talked or hit on or both,” Phillips said.

Phillips went on to estimate that women comprise ten to twenty percent of Xbox’s online community, which means that (as of E3) there are up to 140,000 girl gamers out there. That’s a lot of people, and they’re not being treated with…