Okay guys here is what is really happening. We live in a time and society where we spend most of our time sitting on our asses. We don't have to run much anymore, or climb anything, or take 10 mile walks to the nearest well to get water. Basically, the baseline for acceptable physical capability has plummeted substantially…
many of the comments above seems to suggest that sexism in the game industry and games isnt an issue. yet when anita sarkesian started doing her stuff, the kickstarter and all that, she got tons of hate. also its pretty easy to see that the games industry is more imature than most others. imagine if something like the…
Damn. Give me a decently made shooter where the main character's a crack shot old lady and I'll give you $60. I don't care if her gun doubles as her cane, that sounds like fun.
Actually the key point here that everyone should take to heart is that no assumptions should be made about anyone. And the heart of the problem in gaming is that we just permanently assume that players of a game will be male, this makes the whole gaming world very non-inclusive.
How's that, exactly? I loved the fact that when I looked at Cloud Strife for the first time I had NO idea how deep his story was actually going to go. Same with Tifa. And I know you can't look at Batman and guess what his story is if you've never heard of him before. In fact I think it's sort of tacky if you can look at a…
So you're saying that idealized male bodytypes are empowering to men, but idealized female bodytypes are derogatory to women? personally i find the idea that all men should have that "perfect" musculature, body shape, heroic poise and leading attitude quite repugnant, it's certainly not a reflection of me and it pushes…
idealized means that it strives towards an ideal. so what ideal are we talking about? the ideal that caters to men of course. not to women. heres some links that explain it better than i do: http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/falseequivalence/ and a longer more thorough article:…