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Denver, 7:30 PM
Mon Dec 14
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Bullshit, I still refuse to buy this.
07:01 PM
Secondly, some of your arguments involve several "leaps of faith" to seemingly support your games are sexist agenda.
It's a pretty far stretch to say that a game is sexist for not featuring any female just as it would be to say a game is racist for not featuring any minorities.
I can go on and on about this but its easier to say that your argument (no matter how well intended) bring shame to the cause you hope to support.
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Here's the thing you're forgetting: Women have no choice but to exist in a world catered to men. Important point, when we ladies ask to be "catered to" (read: included) as AJ is here, you get all the bullshit sexist comments below saying she's "finding something to complain about" and etc. Way to make your argument guys. Thumbs up.
What I also find interesting is that the guys are getting all up in arms about the fact that these "art-school feminists" are sitting around chatting about "crushes on videogame protagonists" and claiming this is more damaging to women than any of the other obviously sexist examples AJ listed in this article.
What I believe these (you?) guys are not seeing here is that while these women were able to play and react to the game as humans (like, their genitals didn't prevent them from being immersed in game play) once out of gameplay, they related to the male-centric cast with lust instead of, I guess, taking on the accomplishments of their characters as their own, as a dude would? What should they have been talking about after finishing the game? From what I read here, they found the game immersive, the characters well written and developed, and they also happened to find them attractive (even though they couldn't see some of their faces--what does it mean?!). Are you suggesting they...should react to the game as a man would, too? Or that they not play the game at all, if that's what they're gonna talk about!
On this point, I'm confused, you see. Enlighten a girl.
05:14 PM
I'm excited for SDXC which I think should replace conventional console HDs.
05:09 PM
Worth checking out if you want somethign to relax to.
04:55 PM
War, action, and awesome, on the other hand, aren't the domain of just one sex, much less one gender. I'd love to play a game based on some badass pants-wearing Russian partisan men and women.
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04:34 PM
If you're too poor to be able to afford this, maybe YOU should be shot. See? No logic. Get lost.
04:55 PM
Your opinion is retarded.
Wow, we have different opinions? D:
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06:18 PM
You'll notice that everyone disagreed with you. It's because you said something unintelligent or rude. Best to consider the error rather than taking everyone on.
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Oh, and it was a figure of speech. I don't think anyone deserves to be shot. Just that people that buy it, in my opinion, are pretty fucking stupid.
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04:27 PM
How many women are in special forces?
How many women are in Brazilian militias?
Seems throwing a woman in the mix would make about as much sense having a panda that knows kungfu on the team.
The middle point of your article kind of answers why boys don't like girls playing video games. We don't sit around talking about which characters we wanna be, or which buxom bimbo we'd like to sleep with.
We just play the game.
I don't try to identify with the characters in FPS. I just run, shoot, wait for the paint to clear, and continue.
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04:07 PM
I remember there being more than one woman in the airport, but not many more. IW dodged a bullet, so to speak, by limiting their numbers there.
This was a pretty good article, I thought. Many people are taking it....differently than I did when I read it. Most of these are the same people that crapped on Raven Alexis' article because they were offended that a woman was telling them how to pick up women.
06:07 PM
Who else would know how a woman wants to be treated or communicated with other than a member of that group?
That's why many male gamers get none.
06:22 PM
So yeah, if there were more women in that level in the airport, people would definitely be claiming that women were being murdered instead of civilians being killed.
06:57 PM
This. Also the same people who come here just once a month to tell Tim Rogers how much he sucks (he doesn't) and post TL;DR.
What can we say though, controversy creates cash. And anything that involves girl gamers in a market predominantly male will just have its influx of idiots rushing in with the old "You're doing it wrong" response. It's people like this that nearly make me ashamed to be part of videogames and its culture. I know the Internet's for free speech and all but there's a line betwen putting your point(s) across in a decent manner, and just being a moron.
What this article really tells us is this: 3 girls sat in a room and played Modern Warfare 2. They enjoyed it in the same manner that men did. It didn't need any special treatment or add-ons to get the girls to like it.
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