Sexism in games.

[Dark_Dimension]

(07-10-2012 03:22 PM)retrolinkx Wrote:  It's not a problem in the industry, feminists think that any thing women are portrayed in a negative way is bad, and then proceed to run amuck to prove this.

I understand some games try to use Women as an advantage to make people buy the game, like Bayonetta and Lollipop Chainsaw, but in those games Women are shown to be incredibly powerful and not at all vulnerable, as many women say.

But most of the time, they just complain TO complain. I remember a picture a while ago of Harley Quinn tied up in Arkham City, nothing else, just her tied up, and the player, if they wanted to could put sticky tape on her mouth to shut her up, nothing else, a lot of feminists went mad.

The ironic thing was, she wasn't hurt, nothing happened to her, just being tied up. They thought that Batman being able to shut her up and make her talk was something incredibly bad.

Meanwhile Batman has gone through shit with countless enemies, is near death, is dying and is under stress, in pain and much more, but I don't see us guys complaining.

I'm not saying all feminists are bad, but they shouldn't interfere with stuff that isn't real life, it doesn't change anything, the only understandable thing I can think of is Lara Croft is able to be raped in the new game, and that's about it.

The feminists you describe are the extremist ones. Actual feminists wouldn't be put off by that at all.

Also, there was a very good article written about Lollipop Chainsaw being a game about male objectification. I would highly suggest reading it; I thoroughly enjoyed it.

From now on, can we please appropriately call extremists as such? Society has painted feminists as cat-lady-deprived-of-sex-and-any-soul type of people. There are many females and males out there that believe women should be treated by the merits of their personality (the same going for males). If treating females as regular people (which they are) counts as feminist, then count me in that group.

Anyway, this is a little off-topic.

So, about sexism in games. What have video games traditionally been? Male power fantasies. I'm not saying all games are like that nor am I saying that video games should be developed as such. However, I've been guilty of wanting to run around as a scantily clad female and slaying everything in my path. You know the forsworn armor in Skyrim? Yeah, my dark elf ran around in that for a while. Eventually went to Daedric because it's badass but the point remains.

Looking at a person who is extremely attractive that you can also control is something a lot of people can get behind (woo word choices).

Also, thank you all again for keeping a touchy debate like this civil and devoid of flaming. You're all wonderful. ^_^-b