Yawn. Maybe I shouldn't feel bad for ya Tavi, 'cause you seem pretty self assured, but it's gotta be doubly disheartening and annoying when you're condescended to not only because you're female, but also a minor. That's what I hear when I read this—utter, undeniable condescension from someone who probably doesn't even…

And if we're taking orders from Olivia Munn, perhaps we should look to her in the whole "inserting food in mouth" department, too. Meaning suggestively putting it in, and out, and in again for the tittilation and amusement of the juvenile G4 crowd. Yay, respect for women!

Don't mind her, she only just got her Boy's Club membership badge in the mail; I'm sure she's just wanting to take it for a test spin.

@MissMollyKate: Exactly. In the case of women, who are "supposed" to be these paradigms of morality, they choose to be truly offended. Men are allowed to revel in their own wretchedness, whereas women are supposed to be above such things. Eff that.

I wrote this on the last post, but a little late to the game, apologies for reposting. As an aspiring comedy writer, I'd like to put in my two cents. One thing I didn't see above...

@Justine: Agreed. It doesn't help that people will assume the worst of women where they will give men the benefit of a doubt.

@SUNNY1: You two *shakes head* I just can't stop giggling.

@SarsDoesntSave: Agreed, it's about breaking that mold to see what's there, really. Good ole fashioned cronyism does definitely contribute to an atmosphere where women aren't even being considered in the first place, much less scouted properly. Straight white dudes hiring more straight white dudes. No wonder we get…

@SarsDoesntSave: Thank you for your reply. I think with Ellen, she has a very disarming sense of humor. She's very approachable and harmless, and I think that's why it works for her. And it helps that her jokes are actually funny. I'm hard pressed to think of a single female comic that has "made it" without having to…

@Sundeiru: You know, the booth babes at Nintendo were well informed and helpful. I had no issue with them. And I understand the appeal of cosplay and how it draws attention. But not only are there other ways, ways that don't use the female body, to draw attention (anyone see the Rift display?), there are also ways to…

@Kanji08: It's not even so much the exploitation (though there's a bit of that too) so much as it was so gender-specific. E3 and video games are not gender specific, so I inherently resented the marketing that suggested it was.

@Atomic B: I think it's already been here. Feminism tries very hard to reinforce the idea that it's about "CHOICE". If traditional values are yours, then have at 'em. If not, well, you shouldn't be forced into them, either socially or otherwise.

@Jmarsh04: I'm not saying they don't enjoy it, or that they're being enslaved somehow. What I don't appreciate is a very gender specific type of marketing at an event that is not solely full of heterosexual males.

@Ivan_J: It's kind of fun to see morons such as yourself who think that the only reason a woman could possibly object to seeing other women used as decoration is because she can't do it, herself. Simply put, I don't value the male gaze. This does not mean I fit some kind of preconceived notion of yours...guess what,…

@mernmern: Brain dead? Um, no. And calling someone a chick, someone whose intelligence I doubt very much, is not akin to an anti feminist slur. You're nitpicking solely to try and discredit what I have to say. Nice try.

@Kolian: I'm perfectly aware of why they would use the ploy. I'm not stupid.

@leno40: I'm gonna point out the obvious here that there is a huge wage disparity between male and female models that can be attributed to the high value we place on sexualized images of women, in turn caused by the even higher value we place on masculinity and the male libido and the false dichotomy that women do not…

@Qik: It's cute that you have no problems riverting to your basest and most caveman like state. I know the status quo, as it stands, is very fun for people like you. But simply put, men aren't the only ones on the face of the earth, and they weren't the ones on E3. Your attraction to women is not a justification for…

@SwiftTomHanks: Then they should eliminate booth babes. They are exclusionary in nature because you never see the male equivalent. At the Trion booth, there was a cosplayer who wore an outfit for Rift that actually was the costume for a character within the game. However, at the End of Nations display, there was a…

@somnambulance: To point that out is to deny that there is an obvious power imbalance between men and women that make it very different when women are used to promote a product. And actually, I have very little problem with models in general, but there's a difference between using a model and putting a woman on…