a gay assassin would have worked definitely (you are right), especially since in older cultures and time periods it wasn't socially acceptable for men or women to be openly gay so they ended up in married relationships with children anyways just to fit in.

But a rolling pin is simply not an effective weapon. What, you gonna throw sandwiches at French royalty?

Reading the articles surrounding Ubisoft and their decision regarding a female assassin has made me very uncomfortable, and it has very little to do with Ubisoft. The comments on those articles were....frankly, pretty disturbing to me. As a woman who plays games, I've never really felt like an outsider in the world of…

Not everybody thinks it sucked. I don't preorder games so no hype train for me. I really enjoyed it. There were a handful of issues with the game, hopefully they'll get ironed out in the next version.

So... where exactly do we make that argument then... like.. Golf Digest or something?

They're underrepresented in video games. Where would be the right place to argue that?

What? I loved that game. It was like playing a GTA that wasn't a 100-hour punchline about my own country. Love both, but it was a nice break.

Jason Biggs is a fucking tool. And trying to pretend that publicly echoing some of the horrible shit that's been said about Tara Reid's body was just "a game" makes him a goddamn coward, too.

I think attraction happens for unknown reasons. She was (and is still) intelligent and beautiful and could have picked someone else.

Holy shit you're getting flak from the cavemen.

I know I did (and do) everything possible to make sure when I'm playing online/multiplayer games that strangers I'm playing with won't know I'm a woman. I suspect I'm far from the only one. There's only so much gendered bullshit a person can put up with, even while gaming.

To be fair, you're somewhat overplaying the diversity of the AC protagonists. Both Altair and Connor are described as "half-white," with one European parent and one "local" parent (race, being a social construct, is a deeply dicey thing to try to nail down, of course. Even more so when trying to apply modern…

You are my favorite.

49% seems right. Out of 12 WoW players I know, only one is male. I'd say 2/3 of the XCOM and Call of Duty players I know are female. Maybe women just don't bother with the surveys?

And that's why I can't remember the last Gears of War I played, nor have I ever picked up Uncharted. White guy with brown hair waving guns, right? The last Rambo movie was.... 500 dudes and one woman? Didn't bother with that either. I saw the former when it was called Doom, saw the ladder when it was The…

Games with female leads would have to be given the same marketing budget as those with male leads, and not regulated to the small screen. They aren't given and equal playing field.

Love this. People love to stereotype all "May-December" relationships as being only about sex, some kind of self-esteem hang up, or as indicating that the older person is "the same emotional age" as the younger person. It couldn't possibly be that both people are mature adults having a mature adult relationship.

Ahhhh, people like you make being outside the norm such a treat.

Meh, my first spouse was 18 years older. I was 21 and she was 39 when we met. We were married 12 years and broke up for normal reasons. We outlasted everyone we knew who were much closer in age. We remain friends to this day.