Looks like its a little nipply in here.

What about the other .09 percent of people who are neither awesome nor assholes?
Are we just forgotten?

Though this comment definitely got me into the .01.

And real classy. Whining about people who treat her as a sex object, and then objectifying herself in every way possible.

"Why? Probably too many judgments on the sharpness of her knees from sexless trolls, I'm guessing."j I lol'd hard...also, see balls187 above for a great example of this.

@balls187: Hello Mr. .01 percent.

So if it's not allright to judge her attractiveness,or lack thereof,can I point out how painfully unfunny her and the other douchebag on that show are? Are the jokes written by gradeschoolers?

It is so true. There are those out there that need the attention because they aren't getting anything at home. You know what I mean.

@Kirbytheslayer: Has to do this weekly?: lol

"And it would be really great if I could go on a forum and talk to people who like the show and talk about games, but I can't because there's some 14 year-old jerk somewhere who just wants to be an idiot and try and get attention. And then you can't engage them because if you give them attention, then they win."

uh,it's called banning and ignoring people. If you can't grasp those concepts then perhaps you are just a pretty face.

wait, morgan webb is a woman!?
i keed i keed :D

I think the jerk level is a bit more than .01 on the internet.

Jade's remarks remind me very much of a guy I used to know who published electronic music under a handful of personas. His most popular persona was a communist lesbian, whose music was, in his own opinion, inferior to his own. Gimmicky. Trite.

And the funny thing is, people at it up, because the photo he created for this communist lesbian was hot. He made a decent amount of money by making crappy techno and convincing people it was made by a hot chick.

Yeah, Jade's totally right about how nerds treat women who participate in nerdy media. And that really sucks.

I <3 Morgan Webb... yeah I know, I am a loser.

@NeoAkira:

Or not a pretty face, as the case may be.

Perhaps I should amend my username; it seems to be the trend.

Ping: .01 percent fo' life?

She's funny. Doesn't make any sense though. When Nerd #14 was hired at Kotaku I was all like, "Ahhh, shit!" calling up all my buddies, being all like, "Ahh, shit! you gotta check this out!"

Was that really a good metaphor?! Hmm? How about, "Kotaku Editor Brian Crecente spills the beans on how to pronounce...Kotaku." Now that's a story - and even Penelope Cruz designing her first action-adventure game wouldn't top that! Er....

yea it's more like 70% jerk level

I am woman hear me roar. My wife can kick my butt in Halo and R6:Vegas. Some girls including Morgan can't be underestimated. The planet needs more gamer chicks!

@kidnicky: Adam Sessler is the reason I watch. And yes the jokes are written by Grade schoolers. Love him though especially in interviews.

Her statistics directly contradict the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, which I deem more accurate.

Jokes aside, its cool to hear those tidbits from her. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for X Play, its hosts and its various incarnations (at least until they get rid of Adam).

I think Morgan Webb (and even Adam Sessler) should split away from G4. Think of the crapfest that would ensue --- "WHAT WILL OUR NETWORK DO FOR THE SACRED 12-25 YEAR-OLD MALE DEMOGRAPHIC WITHOUT THE PRECIOUS GAMER GRRRL?!" (Solution: air more reruns of COPS and Star Trek.) If all goes well, G4 would file for bankruptcy and dissolve and TechTV would be dealt sweet vengeance.

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Morgan Webb is cool, though. She should just stop doing things such as exploiting herself (like in Maxim) that give women a detrimental image in the gaming world. I really don't feel offended by having her around though -- THERE'S always room in the gaming club for anyone.

I remember when Morgan was on The ScreenSavers. I didn't see her as nothing more but an average girl on the show that responded to people in the forum and cited emails aloud for the host to answer. Her looks were never a topic until I guess she went through a wardrobe change as her transition from The ScreenSavers to X-Play. Also, that snubb they had with Playboy and the girls of electronics, or something of that nature. She was constantly being to compared to Jessica Corbin, another pretty female starlet on the now defunct channel, who never quite garnered as much as Morgan did, because she wasn't on the video game side of the entertainment sphere. However, I can't disagree with her though, there's always going to be people out there that are going to berate you all for attention.

I think it's mostly a generational gap. You're seeing more women get into gaming these days, and I suspect that trend will accelerate until it reaches something resembling parity in the next few decades.

You have to consider that only as feminism and equal rights took off in the 60s did you start to see it become acceptable, socially, for women to take on certain jobs in various industries, as well as hobbies and pastimes. Gaming is still considered a primarily "male" pastime, and that stigma is going to take more time to wear off, and for gaming culture to become more inclusive as a whole.

Give it time. I don't doubt that in a few decades gaming will be as unremarkable for women as it is for men. Our granddaughters will doubtlessly find it inconceivable that there was a time when their interest in games would elicit comment from anyone.

@Desi: Agreed, I don't think Sessler or Webb are that bad, but the writing on X-Play is horrible. The show would be much better if it was just a bit more serious, like Gamehead for example.
We're still talking about games, so it doesn't needs to be 60 Minutes or 20/20 type of writing. Just a little more seriousness is all.

@Ping: I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, because I regret it deeply: I'm the one who invented this stupid name changing trend. Worst mistake I ever made.

@BTownDesignGuy: Jade Raymond said nothing. This was all Morgan Webb. Jade was too busy saying "Buy my game because I'm hot. But don't treat me as an object."

@balls187: Mwuhahaha. Time to get personal. You didn't notice the number disparity. MWUHAHAH!

You'd think McWhertor would have made some kind of self-deprecating and/or indignant joke after the 'Nerd #14 being hired at Kotaku' comment.

Awww damnit, she's married. Now where do I put my demon seed?

She's got a point about the internet -- that's why I'm glad most online communities have block/ignore features. After a few months of whittling away the tards, you can finally start to have meaningful dialog online.

boo to Morgan Webb.

Jessica Chobot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Morgan Webb.

Kirby said: "Whining about people who treat her as a sex object, and then objectifying herself in every way possible."

I agree. She did it for more publicity for the show and yet she knew that it could affect her legitimacy. I wonder if she didn't have some pressure from higher ups to do it. I'm sure there has to plenty of ways to get publicity for your show that don't involve a Playboy-lite kind of spread. Things like this annoy me to no end.

It sounds like Ms. Webb is either naive or so nice she chooses to ignore the truth. One, it is NOT .01% that ruin interactions with fans (see Kotaku's choice of picture). Two, they did not choose you as anchor because you are "cute." Three, just because they locked onto your "cute"-ness, that does not mean you don't face challenges that men don't every day. Most of your talk is about those very challenges you face as a woman, but then you say, oh i have a TV show, so it balances out. A) It's not your show. Men still own the company, make the rules, and pay your check. B) What about the women who are as talented as you are but don't have your "cute" factor? Does it balance out for them? Four, "99.9 percent of people are cool and .01 percent are morons who ruin it for everybody"... I think you need to re-examine your data. Because most men and most gamers will reduce you to a sexual object instantly and without remorse.

@Kirbytheslayer: Has to do this weekly?:
Hah, she actually addressed that in the interview. It's okay to be pretty and know about games. She didn't say much about guys talking about her looks anyways it was more about guys thinking she doesn't actually play games.

Don't be .01 percent of that guy.

I'm sorry, I'm sure she's a very nice girl, but I still don't like her. When I see her on G4 talking about videogames, it gets under my skin. Maybe it's the fact that she is so pretentious, yet it seems like she has little to no idea about what she is talking about. I know at least a few girl gamers who are far more deserving of her position and definitely more knowledgable about games.

Attractiveness shouldn't even enter into it, as long as they're not cave trolls. It really shouldn't be an issue anyway, as most of the people on G4 are only of average attraction, if that.

Olivia Munn however = sexbomb.

mmmm munn :D

Lol when I went to E for All, there was an ad for G4 tv with Morgan and Adam on it. I took a look closed at the poster, and someone wrote "LOL MANJAW" on Morgan's Man-Jaw. That made my day.

We don't make fun of her knees, we make fun of her rather manly jaw. If you're going to poke fun at us, do it with good examples.

From the interview in the link:

Multiplayer: Are you suggesting that if you were a man with the same knowledge, you wouldn't be as successful as you are now?

Webb: Here's the thing: television is different then the rest of the world. I have faith in the fact that if I didn't find this television show, I would have a great job. And I don't think that I have this job solely because I'm a woman. But I think that yeah, television is different, and they want a show with a man and a woman.

So what she clarified is television is different (go figure) and that she wasn't hired because she was a woman, although they were looking for a woman to help host the show as well.

contradiction anyone?

.01 percent of people? Really Morgan? Really?

I mean come on its probably more like 60% dicks 40% decent people. On the interent its probably worse though.

I know I might sound like a total jealous bitch for saying this but Morgan Webb is slightly average looking at most. I'm not saying she's a bad person but I don't get how guys are having wet dreams about her. I'm not saying she's ugly but it just seems like she's trying too hard.

Still, I have to agree with her points about the .01% of idiots that prowl the internet. We've all came across our own share of rabid fanboys/girls, jerks that think they are God's gift to women, bratty drama queens, over zealous religious bigots, death threats, and your all around troll. It sad that it's this small percentage seem to be the loudest.

HAHHAHHAHA nice pic for the article LOL priceless. But seriouly she is not all that great looking. She has a jaw that would put jay leno to shame and she has a uber butterface you can cut a roast on that and nothing would happen.

@MURDERFACE: Oh yeah and Xplay sucks ass too.

Okay, people. It should be 99.99%. NOT 99.9 for the .01% to make sense.
That's been pissing me off. I though my original comment made that clear, but you don't seem to get it.

@TheDollHouse: Being a celebrity raises your hotness factor several billion points.
I used to be called incredibly ugly, but then I became finalist #4 in the Dementium contest, and BAM!, I got +50000 hotness points.

@TheDollHouse: I know I might sound like a total jealous bitch for saying this but...

You are correct on that point.

Not having access to the miracle drug you people call cable I have only seen four episodes of X-play. This would not be a problem for me if it wasn't the same four every time I had cable access. So if G4 wanted real publicity they should run new episodes more often.

On the subject of her Maxim spread, this is the first I've heard, and I couldn't really care less. What she does with her fame is her problem and as long as it doesn't block me from my goals then she could pose nude on X-play and it wouldn't have much affect on whether I would watch the show or not.

On the subject of girls in gaming, my girlfriend is a better sniper than I'll ever be in the virtual world. Whoopee, she's fun to play with and isn't that what really matters?

Actually, reading that gave me more respect for her. I definitely had the crossing snarl in my mind that "grr..just getting a girl to read a script and pretend that she is a gamer girl." But her responses have made me contrite and I will now consider her a respectable peer again.

I have to say, I've experienced the exact same scenario at previous jobs of someone coming to ask a question about games or computers, and if there's a male near by, they get asked the question, even if they couldn't tell you the difference between an Xbox and a Virtual Boy. It definitely sucks sometimes. And even the other day, I was explaining to a friend at school what HDMI cables are for, and a guy came by and thought he was in the twilight zone to hear such talk come out of a girl's mouth. He even said "Not to be sexist...but I wasn't expecting to hear a girl say that!" Sigh. :(

Go figure, she actually used Kotaku as an example in the story and it wasn't just added for here.

she is a hot thing, she looks so cute on webb alert too

It's more than a little sad when .01% of people are keeping you away from social activities. I guess the words hurt. Hurt like glass....

I like her more when she's not hosting X-Play. Same goes for Adam Sessler. Like in Game Break in Attack of the Show, or when they're hosting E3. 'Cause not one single joke on X-Play is remotely funny.

Will this focus on girl gamers never end? Who cares? If girls game, they game! If they don't, they don't! No one's keeping them from gaming and saying that they can't game. No one is saying they can't get involved in making games. Hell, they're free to game as much as they want, and make as many games as they want, and what do you know? Barring a few exceptions, they choose not to make games, let alone play them! BIG DEAL! The industry gets along fine without them, and will continue to get along fine without them.

If girls are going to game more often and start making their own games, that is a decision they have to come to on their own. Don't like sexually objectified girls in games? Then get involved and make your own game! Try to sell it! If it does well, it will herald much change! Otherwise, quit whining that the gaming industry doesn't cater to your particular interests. The industry responds to one thing, and one thing alone: MONEY. Where the money goes, it will follow. If girl gamers don't like the way things are going, they should vote with their damn pocketbooks. That's what the rest of us gamers do.

And you know, I'm not about to be lectured on the sexual objectification of girls in games by women who have and/or do sexually objectify themselves in the gaming industry, be it Morgan Webb, the Frag Dolls, Game Girl Advance, or whatever girl gamer decides to do so.

Ah, sweet sweet man jaw.

@theherlihyboy: Your solutions are extremely clear cut and impossibly simple. Open up your fucking mind: there are a lot more complexities to being a female gamer.

Imagine trying to play Live and dealing with the shit any girl who plays must deal with. Well since she has to vote for her pocketbook, I guess she can just play 'Barbie's Horse Adventures', right? Everything's that easy!

Personally, I don't get her being "hot".

Sure, she's a woman, and she's not exactly ugly either, but she's just not what I would call hot.

Maybe bookstore/coffee shop "Gimme my coffee and stop asking me if I want a mint latte" cute. Perhaps even "College girl that happens to play DDR on Doubles" cute (Who am I kidding, half the girls that play DDR in Cleveland are kinda sloppy...)

There are two other girls on G4 that I'd probably classify as "hot" over her, like AoTS' Olivia Munn, or certainly Cheat!'s Kristin Holt, whom I feel deserves a cover on Maxim (Pick a country edition).

Cute? Yes. Hot? Not.

But hey, it's just one opinion in a sea of them...

I was all like, "yeah, way to be reactionary about the web Morgan Webb!" Then I started reading the comments in this thread and thought, "way to be proactive, Morgan Webb!"

Props to MTV for framing gender in gaming culture, but it seems to me, gaming culture is actually pretty friendly to gender since gaming culture is still very fringe. In the age-old war of gender, fringe is usually the kindest and fairest, though of course that does not mean that the immortal war against the evils of patriarchy does not also find victims on the fringe.

Just that the evils of gender she probably experiences do not reflect game culture so much as Television culture.

IE.(If she were just a game journalist with a web site or writin for a magazine she probably wouldn't have the same experience she has cohosting a TV show)...

Sayin',

Although she covers fringe stuff, the fact that she's on TV makes her too accessible to be fringe.

Anyway, she's attempting to bite the hand that feeds as G4's programming is geared to 14 year olds. Which, of course 14 year olds like, because 14 year olds like the idea of cynicism for cynicism's sake, as they are in the midst of adolescence, and so part of what makes Morgan Webb successful is baiting 14 year olds, treating them with contempt and so forth, which they, for their own psychological reasons, find inclusive. So.

Yeah, props to MTV for trying, but I don't think this really sticks to gaming so much as to 'women in TV' and suchlike. What would be more interesting would be a weeklong series of interviews with female programmers, female PR, gamestop employees even, etc, the folk dealing in the actual game industry on a day to day basis, rather than just picking some quasi celebrity who treats this as a chance to excite her fanbase with more browbeating.

Wait? Did I just write 'props to MTV for trying'? Something's wrong...

@balls187:

sauce.

What does G4 have to do with gaming!?

I have no qualms with Miss Webb, however I would definitely say that she's got her message mixed up. One on hand she's lambasting the internet for objectifying her as a sex object, but on the other she's got plenty of media for posing scantily clad. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

See, I have a problem.

On one hand, everything Morgan Webb has said here is valid.

On the other hand, she is also the worst example of beauty exploited for fame in this industry.

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