While she makes a lot of good points, and I agree with the general premise, she does seem to miss a rather big point with Spelunky here. True, there isn't a long history of presenting male characters as helpless because of their gender, but there is a long history of presenting homosexual characters in this kind of…
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It's not a comic, but this seems like the best place for it... listen to these gamer-inspired poems... especially the first one.
If your personality, feelings, attitude or gripes ever become part of how you present yourself professionally, you are not a journalist.
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That was the first thing I thought of too. Thanks for posting it!
As a teacher, here is the issue I see: most class discussions are lead by women, most school elections are dominated by women, and yet after high school - and this is just from my own perception - there seems to be a lot fewer women in positions of power.
I had the same thought (and on the flipside, I had no idea Grave of the Fireflies was Ghibli).