She's proceeding from that conclusion because we've already ascertained that video games are sexist. Now she's showing all the different kinds of sexism to help educate others and foster discussion.
She's proceeding from that conclusion because we've already ascertained that video games are sexist. Now she's showing all the different kinds of sexism to help educate others and foster discussion.
What is being said is often game developers make violence towards females more violent and sexual than towards males, as a way to cause emotion.
The thing with violence against men is that mostly, men are the ones with agency in games. Nobody is saying violence against any other person, male or female, is not bad. What they are saying is that women characters lack agency and are just decorations that get fridged.
You know how if you watch an episode of Star Trek or whatever and there's a redshirt in a dangerous situation? They die and you aren't surprised at all and maybe even roll your eyes and say "ugh saw that coming a mile away". It would be nice for women to not be redshirts, so that countless stories don't start with…
Someone who sees a problem in something brings up examples that indicate that problem? Seems like.. anyone who has ever had an opinion on anything ever. She's brought up games that do things right - but so many people fixate on the one or two games that have women with agency in them to the exclusion of everything…
Seem? Certain people? I got news for you. Saying, "maybe women should form their own studio and make their pink games for girls" doesn't seem sexist to certain people. It is sexist as an objective fact. You imply that women should be segregated into their own studio because they and what they want are not "main…
However, I'm reluctant to say that violence against any single group of people should be removed from creative work since that has the potential to shut down a vein of narrative.
It's a good thing that's not what she said, right?
No one is advocating removing all violence directed towards women from all games. That's pretty much a strawman position that people who don't want anything to change use to rail against.
The people getting mad and/or surprised at Joss Whedon aligning himself with feminism have been endlessly amusing to me.
7) Batman does not understand how mental recovery works.
They put a left rear tire on the right rear of the car for loading purposes.. this is nothing new in sprint car racing. They'll likely cooperate fully, they won't destroy the go pro either. Looks to me in the video like Stewart was trying to get away from the kid, the #45 car almost hit him too. When you blip the…
'In Europe, topless women sell breakfast cereal on TV.' No they don't. We just tell you that to tempt you to come over here so we can steal your freedoms and convert you to our godless communist way of life!
Well in all honesty, that's how some of us feel about showcasing our breasts like that, especially in comics. Think on that!
She's an American character, and American puritanical mores have indeed convinced folks in this country that women's bodies have significantly more 'dirty' or 'obscene' surface area than men's. There's no exact analogue, but in a country where a man can go topless with impunity, while a woman doing the same faces…
It's not about whether sex is or isn't a big deal. It's about how women's bodies are treated in media.
I think part of the reason the artist goes so far is that there isn't really a male equivalent to putting cleavage on display in such a specific and obvious way. You have to go much further to sexualize the male body in the way that the female body is so often sexualized. (I wouldn't think of a man in a loincloth as…
A lot of female supercritter costumes are completely ridiculous and plainly sexist. If I was a supercritter without invulnerability to bullets do you think I would walk into a bank robbery with all that skin showing? Fuck no!
Except Power Girl isn't real, so she cannot have "made it her own;" it was the writers that did.
Girls aren't the only ones who might want to see that look.
Don't you understand that it is empowering?! Lets give him some empowering high heels too.