It's relative to past experiences and history, male tropes overall doesn't cause the same kind of damage due to not having the same weight or history behind them, but then there are localized exceptions. A woman 'privileged' enough to have grown up in a place which is quite equal can enjoy something like lollipop chainsaw…
If Anita kept to her shenanigans about Lego, Pink clothes and other random stuff which she doesn't read the history about in her videos on her channel intact, there would have much less whiplash on her, but from the following interview, it looks like the people who donated money have essentially burnt it at the end of the…
It's a bit hard most of the time to make a gay characters as most of them are not actively out fucking people, you can't in most cases tell someone homosexual from a heterosexual person or the other way around. The mass effect backlash was a vocal minority and most that play it don't mind any freedom given. But then again,…
well you can turn this around a hundred times. for example as a men you may end up beaten up by a couple of guys, just because they feel like it, or they like your jacket. as a women getting raped... not so much. especialy in public places. in my location there have been cases of men getting beaten to death for virtualy no…
Oh totally - I am not saying that folks shouldn't be vocal about that kind of issue. I am just adopting the specific perspective of us game developers who actually do have the power do things about it :) We are in the rare situation of being the ones able to create "the next big thing like Mass Effect" - that's a great…
That's kind of a false equivalency. What I'm talking about is gender specific because men rarely feel intimidated walking past big groups of women in the same way. When women feel threatened by big groups of men who are catcalling or commenting about them, it's a totally different kind of intimidation. I'm not saying it's…
Morality is such a flimsy thing, and to believe otherwise is delusional. People exist in a reality outside of your own, and to dictate a commonality between our shared realities is dangerous business when done under the guise of a morally absolute position in an ever flowing stream of consciousness. Maybe that's a bit too…
Maybe. But when it comes to the specific subset I'm intending to refer to (and I'm probably not delineating that very well, which I take full responsibility for), I have yet to meet any serious exceptions. Maybe one or two. The rest I've encountered fit the mold to a T, sadly. I desperately hope that's just bad luck on my…
Right. And I agree with you. At this point because of said past gender segregation and themes within games, I think a lead character in a traditionally funded game is unrealistic. They have to appeal to the existing consumer base and push slowly and safetly if at all. A bisexual or asexual character would probably be more…