While the articles themselves have been certainly disheartening, for me it has been the comments on the articles that has been a serious eye opener. I have noticed that "gaming culture" definately needs to grow up, but the sheer weight of immature, sexist comments that spring up when anyone so much as touches on the…

Even so, there are people in these comments claiming that she was overreacting and being emotional even though she ddin't 'stand up for herself'. Look at the comment brass2themax made a few comments above you, for instance. After the Tropes Vs Women, Tomb Raider rape fiasco, and the Hitman trailer and now this, I have…

The examples in Patriot serve to villainize the British... likewise the deaths in Band of Brothers zerve to give emotional impact to the audience and to heighten the stakes/make you more connected to the remaining soldiers. By contrast, the Germans in BoB and the Redcoats in Patriot are villains, and do all sort of…

"Hell, part of being an *American* is wanting to kill those other stupid Americans that don't agree with your ideals."

I have that book! A good read, regardless of who wrote it.

Definately. While I wouldn't say that Oblivion or Skyrim are *bad* games, they certainly aren't as good as Morrowind, and they have terrible continuity with it. Coupled with the fact they decided to blow up Morrowind in between Oblivion and Skyrim, and the existance of this MMO thing in the pipes, it looks doubtful…

"Inner group of men"? I think you are confusing the illuminati with society.

Considering the amount of name-calling you use in place of a proper argument, I would think that you would be mentally deficient as per your own definition of what people who make flawed arguments are, seeing as how name-calling is generally considered to be an indicator of a flawed argument. Just sayin. Also, for…

You mean as opposed to the cricle jerking misoginists? Because that got tired a long time ago.

Just because it's fictional doesn't mean it has no impact-things like this don't exist in vacuum, and to assume that they do, and are thus irrelevent, is asinine.

While this form of sexism does hurt men in some ways, I would argue that its purpose is to keep women from encroaching into 'their' territory. The fact that it devalues male life is intertwined with male notions of empowerment and manhood-in this way it is a method of male empowerment. You may have noticed that one of…

Overweight men/non-ken men face far less social ridicule then women do. If women seek out Vega-types to get dominated by, it's because it is a lifestyle that is widely supported in popular culture, wheras alternative relationships are frequently depicted as emasculating, 'wrong' etc. Also, men facing chastisement…

Women's lives are treated as 'sacred' because culture infantisizes them-therefore making them too innocent to be butchered like men, except in specific circumstances (shock factor, hero's motivation, evil woman, etc). Yup, it's sexism-against women.

You specifically stated that feminism doesn't apply to video games in this case in the context of a 'gaming environment'. This is an important distinction here as you don't specifically say 'feminism doesn't apply to this game'. In fact, your wording of 'gaming environment' includes *ALL GAMES*. There was no…

Yes I did, you didn't read my comment.

Feminism does apply to video games. No aspect of culture exists in a vaccuum, women's rights and opportunities are affected by depictions such as this that commodify women as sex objects. Also, by your definition, "Birth of a Nation" doesn't hurt equal rights for minorites because no one has to watch it.

I think everyone who watched that trailer got that they weren't actually nuns. They obviously weren't dressed as nuns to 'blend in'-or did you miss the rpg, automatic weapons, and disrobing in the middle of a parking lot and having a firefight part? They were the exact opposite of stealthy, competent or 'wily'. Their…

One should never have to 'get used to' sexism. Complaining about the trailer also serves its purpose of lettign the devs know that this is not something that many fans want to see in the next game-perhaps they will remove aspects of it or tone it down in some way. At the very least they will be less likely to do this…

In what way are prostitutes empowered? In what way could they concievably be considered 'strong' if they fail in their mission and are all dead by the end of the trailer? I don't think you understand what 'empowered' means.

Yeah, seems to be a lot of folks grasping at straws to defend this trailer (when they aren't grasping at feminist strawmen, that is). It's surprising that so many people can't seem to grasp the basics of feminism.