Tangent: I feel really sad reading this dude. Any artist out there who feels this kind of pressure and decides to start thinking about changing what they are making or change what they enjoy making, because of it: STOP IT. Block out this noise and carry right on ahead, don't be derailed. Separate yourself from this…
I posted once about this here, but it is a long thread so you might have missed it. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1615399&postcount=502 No one wants a stop of making sexy female characters. In fact, body portrayal alone is only one facet of feminism, and actually is not that much of a focus of Anita´s…
Lego makes bricks for kids. They look at the numbers and see that the bricks are mostly being bought for and played with by boys. So they say, "Oh my lordy-lord, we're missing out on nearly half of all the little children demographic! How do we try to appeal more to all the people who don't give a shit about…
reposting this in this thread from the other swedish one. This post kinda directly relates more so to our industry than others, there are other boys club industries for sure (who hasnt been to mechanics garage and seen pin up girls all over the walls) but I find most of these points are more about the social aspect of game…
Why the term "Slacktivism" is conceptually misleading: http://technosociology.org/?p=904 (and in case you're slow, what I was attempting to do is present feminist ideas and harmful stereotypes that content creators keep using over and over to a group of... content creators in games) Dude, what are you basing the first…
You're right its not the same thing. My problem is that she described Rush Limbaugh (and Glenn Beck) as being part of the conservative mainstream which is pretty big misrepresentation to me considering his listenership is shrinking and his supposed "millions" of listeners has always been an inflated number that came from…
just an observation here, its seems pretty apparent that regardless of how much relevant, true, noteworthy information you have to present about your argument, it is 100% worthless if you say one derogatory statement toward your opposition. i could write a 5 pages of how awesome Gloria Steinem is, but if say i like boobies…
It's more exasperation. You have no idea how much of this professional hurt-feelings social justice activist crap my wife and I have had to put up with. Most of it has been somebody waltzing up to us and assuming because of certain ethnic or gender aspects that we intrinsically support their "cause". And then when we…
Now for a more mature post since I was a bit of a dick.... the problem I have with her views is that not all cliche stories like say the Notebook, Forrest Gump, Chasing Amy are bad. When you add elements to your creation to make it good as an after thought that is when it usually fails. For example, for a space adventure…
I'm only using it as a firsthand-experience example of my dealings with aggressive, vocal social activists (that's my intention, anyway. Apologies if it's coming across differently, wouldn't be the first time). I'm close friends with a very poltiically involved gay rights activist. He's an awesome guy and someone I have…