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gamers and the women who hate them

Child Man Meet Man Teen

Wow, there are a lot of hateful women out there. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are just as many hateful men out there too, but none of them have been given the space in large newspapers to spew their anger at video games and the men who play them, so I'll limit my ire to them in this post.

Last week we wrote about the Dallas Morning News' vitriolic rant against men who (gasp) dare play video games. The child-man, Kay Hymowitz writes, lingers in "a new state of semi-hormonal adolescence." That's nothing Kay, you really should have dug a bit deeper. Like, say, Kate Muir, who likens men who play video games to Manatee.

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9:00 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Brian Crecente
17,868 views, 278 comments

8-bit activism

Space Invaders Against Sexism

Kotakuite Baltech sent in this snap of a sticker he found hanging about on a pole in Austria. If you were ever curious about which side of the fence those 8-bit invaders were on on the subject of sexism, now you know. I didn't even know those little guys had a gender. Although when you shoot them all down, more just show up so they must be coming from somewhere. More »

1:00 PM on Sun Aug 5 2007
By fdemarco
1,810 views, 16 comments

sex

The Sexiest Sexist Italian Gamer Ad Ever

A respectable first pass at illustrating the common logic that women are brainless automatons waiting to have their subservient existence as barefoot kitchen rustlers programmed into them by a virile man. But it needs further revision. More »

8:40 AM on Thu Jun 1 2006
By brownlee
1,609 views, 9 comments