Check the timer on the right.

I am fully capable of critical thinking, but questioning everything has to reach a limit before it gets ridiculous.

Are you real? Are you a real person or just somebody designed to torment me? Have you ever been to a midnight gamestop release? Does your mother actually play Angry Birds or is it all a lie?

Etc, etc.

I'm…

I'm not treating it as law, I'm treating as a source of information that has yet to have any contradicting information given against it.

I don't know all the details. I am not a member of the ESA or Ipsos MediaCT, so I cannot check for certain.

it says that they surveyed 2,000 national households.

So it's really only…

Yes. I'm fully accepting of a game that is aiming to be realistic that happens to focus on something that, in reality, is entirely male dominated, to only feature men.

It would be somewhat integral to the experience to have a male character in a SEAL focused game, if it were set today or prior to today.

As you say, it's…

The study was conducted by Ipsos MediaCT on behalf of the ESA, they are a professional and highly regarded analytics group.

It's not just something that was thrown together for the sake of it.

And I'm not trying to be rude either, I am remaining civil and I am addressing your arguments. So far all you have to counter…

"Why bother?"

Because people are asking for it...that's why.

"+ as a said before if half the gamers population in the world were girls as many have said. Im sure as hell we would have a lot of romantic/girly theme videogames, but i cant recall 1. thank god."

And what on earth gives you that impression? As far as I'm…

But again, you're just throwing a guess out and hoping it's right, based on what? On your experiences at midnight releases, and your mother?

How about my mother? She used to programme games for me on Spectrum and C64, and I think the Amstrad.

She has her own Steam account, where she's currently playing through things…

Second link is an article about female combat roles.

The current argument is that, due to modern warfare tactics, all roles within the military are combat roles.

800 of the 280k women actively serving in Iraq & Afghanistan have been injured in combat.

Etc, etc.

I...find it interesting that you think I'm a woman. Can I ask why?

I mean, physically I'm not female...but the rest is up for a completely different conversation.

My wife and our female friends, on the other hand, have all spoken at length about the fact that they're bored of constantly playing as men.

Sure, they're…

OK, so this is evidence that predominantly men turn up to midnight releases for Gamestop events.

That's all that these pictures show.

Could this be that Gamestop advertising caters to mostly men? Could it be that women feel unsafe at these events? Or that women still think of them as events purely for men?

There are any…

I think maybe it's because you keep listing things as manly, or not manly, without in any way explaining what makes them manly or not manly, especially with concern to the fact that there are millions of women doing manly things every day, and millions or men doing non manly things every day.

But, again, it comes down…

Anecdotal evidence doesn't really help your point :/

I mean, every woman I know is a gamer...my wife, my mother, my sister, and a tonne of my friends. They own games like Starcraft 2, Skyrim, Monster Hunter, Professor Layton, Ace Attorney, Minecraft, etc. If anything, I know more men that don't game or only game…

Again, what exactly makes them manly things? Or manly reasons?

And it matters because of representation. %1-52% of the human population is female, 45% of the gamer population is female, yet how many women are the stars of games?

15% of the US military is female, yet how many women are in military games?

There are female…

You're dramatically missing the point.

Again, are we ignoring the female soldiers? The female boxers? Female fighters?

Also, given that most of the scenarios are pure fantasy, why can't we have female characters in them?

And why are talking and caring feminine attributes? Am I not allowed to talk? Or care?

According to…

I can't tell if you're joking or being serious.

So I'm going to assume serious until corrected.

Got any stats to back up anything you're saying?

I mean, yes, a large percentage of action movies, comics, games, etc, have male main characters. Why does this make it a non-issue? With 45% of gamers being female, why are they…

People likely do care, they just tend to either not visit Kotaku anymore (note the reaction to this very thread as to reasons why), or they won't voice their opinion (again, note reactions to this very thread as to reasons why).

But why is it an artificial issue? I mean, it is a pretty well recognised issue that…

4 comments in a row. Kinja is on a fucking winning streak right now.

It's a matter of representation.

Piece of shit commenting system won't let me respond to people. Fuck sake.

Ignore. Stupid Kinja system.