This quote from Yahoo news hurts my soul.

Bavelier said games could be developed that would harness the positive effects of the first-person shooter games without the violence.

“As you know, most of us females just hate those action video games,” she said. “You don’t have to use shooting. You can use, for example, a princess which has a magic wand and whenever she touches something, it turns into a butterfly and sparkles.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_en_ot/us_games_for_learning