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Denver, 10:58 PM
Sun Nov 22
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10/01/09
So yeah cut the hourglass thing and tell how much it is for the full night.
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They are all way out of proportion.
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Damn night shifts again..
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10/01/09
I understand it is your job to report on such things as RPGs and MMOs and the like, but Littlest Pet Shop the MMO? This is frightening not only because of the effects of such a product on little girls, but the effects it might have on a grown man (!) like yourself.
I worry that your usual ramblings about my favorites games might devolve into simple reports like, "It's so kawaii!" or "Cutey-wutsy-licious!" I suspect that your job brings you into contact with games like this all the time, but it's only so long before the Cabbage Patch Kids: Death Lurkers from Eternity the MMO creeps up on you and steals you away from Kotaku, Mr. Fahey.
So from all your starving fans (or not so starving as the case may be), please, Mike: don't give into the darling lil' puppies and kittens and horsies and giraffies.
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Glitter Sharpies are preferred - they best communicate Madonna- and Cyndi Lauper-style karaoke. The sparklies remind most viewers of 80's pop music stars.
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Stupid as it may be, at least it is about cute virtual animals (and their plush real life counterparts), and NOT about unrealistic portrayals of women/tweeners where materialism rules all.
10/01/09
LPS lets kids have a fun time with cute animals. Bratz teaches kids how to look like mini-sluts.
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I now get to look forward to my weekends spent helping my girls figure out how to play this.
I'd just pretend it didn't exist and never tell them about it, but then I'd feel guilty, blah blah blah...
12/19/08
"Female Candidate for Vice President!"
"Female Candidate for President!"
"Female Secretary of State!"
12/19/08
Oh, and to some of the commenters - if you think sexism is ok because it's popularly accepted as a part of a country's culture... that means you are a sexist too.
12/19/08
Whatever happened to "the thoughts and opinions of the writers and readers expressed are the ones responsible for content, and are the sole opinion of the commenter. Kotaku (and it's readers) may or may not share the opinions expressed herein.
tim rogers is one writer. There are other writers. each, like us, have varying opinions.
Did we somehow manage to forget this?
12/19/08
I knew Kotaku was hard up for writers when I saw the contest, but this is fucking ridiculous. And when you say something LITERALLY says something, try to put up an accurate translation. æ–°é‹ doesn'T mean "first-timer", it means "promising", "cutting-edge", or "up and coming."
If you want to talk about sexism, feel free to talk about the doe-eyed lolita centerfolds, fuck this flamebait bullshit about an article highlighting a woman's role in game development.
No offense, but you are a fucking tool. bye kotaku.
12/19/08
I am humored to see people getting touchy about an article from an authority on gaming (ARGUABLY *THE* AUTHORITY ON GAMING) that is posted on a gaming site!
Let me ask you this, if you are REALLY THAT OFFENDED, how do you stand the other websites? We're you offended with this year's American Election?
By your logic, you should be.
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Regardless, this is taking something out of another culture and putting it in negative western context for a cheap article. This is also shameful.
12/20/08
For you to say it's not okay, yup, you're projecting your idea of right and wrong onto someone else. But you're only ever going to get subjective ideas re: right and wrong. Maybe in Japan it's commonplace to treat women like second-class citizens and, on occasion, little better than pets. But if you step up and excuse this based on cultural precedent, you're allowing a whole slew of questionable, deprecatory practices to continue, with that logic.
It isn't that easy.
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12/19/08
I don't see it being possible to come as a woman raised in more woman-friendly traditions (at least in law and theory) and not leave this place deeply embittered. Between having the office females dress up as sextoy elves for the Christmas party while the fully- and regularly-dressed males got to get drunk and watch, and listening to my formerly more-or-less decent human being colleagues collapse into sexist modes of speech and manner they would never have dared use at home, in English, it's kind of a grim place to be.
No doubt rabid apologists are heaping up in the comment section even as I type, and I normally would try and reign in the snideness for the sake of my blood pressure and civil discourse. But what's the use in discourse? Japan does not care what we think. Nor should it. Japan is Japan, and we don't have to like it. But I don't feel called upon to forgive it, the culture, the state of affairs, for producing ridiculous circumstances such as these. Not going to march or ring bells or sell dumb t-shirts or try and convert other females to my cause over it--I have no cause!--but not going to quiver in self-appointed Guardian of Japan fury either.
Jade Raymond doesn't matter. Gaming mags in Hong Kong, Pittsburgh or that rag you xeroxed 20 copies of at Kinko's when you were 14 don't matter. They referenced her by her sex. They should have referenced her by her damn name.
12/19/08
Yes, I still think it's terribly annoying that people do that, but I doubt it's done in a derogatory manner. Most people still get really excited when they realize women can do what men can.
12/19/08
...they do? seriously? that's immensely sad. i would think by this point we'd know better than that. practically the only things men can do that i can't is pee freely and lift very heavy objects.
i'd love to see five hundred years in the future. i'd really like to know what the global gender climate will be like.
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because nobody could stop me no matter how funny they looked at me.
12/19/08
oh yeah, and gimme my magazine, chauvinist! :P