Comparing a social movement that advocates for equality to the Nazis makes you an incredibly ignorant, abhorrent and horrible human being.
Comparing a social movement that advocates for equality to the Nazis makes you an incredibly ignorant, abhorrent and horrible human being.
Nothing really offensive, just that he took a subject that's pretty big in games right now and waved it away like he couldn't give two shits.
Can't we have a bit of variety too?
No one's saying there can't be hypersexualized characters, it'd just be nice if that weren't all there are.
Vitriolic?
You do realize that means acidic or bitter comments made for the purpose of injury, right? You do realize nothing I said could possibly be construed within normal discourse that way, right? In fact, I would say I was being overly conciliatory to you, but I figured, work your way up and give people the…
I think you're having trouble actually understanding what sexism or racism is or the pernicious danger in assuming that it's only overt, bigoted stances. Perhaps we can start from the beginning. How would you define sexism and racism?
Let's take this apart piece by piece. . .
You have the same duty to alleviate institutional racism as anyone else, because (hopefully) racism offends your ethical principles and that it helps sustain inequality. If you find these things are fine, then really, you should probably try to end racism if only to keep…
... Probably not the men, I assume.
"We"? Plenty of people, a lot of them women and female players, DON'T like hyper-sexualized female avatars, and they're precious few options for those that want something with a little more dignity (and clothing).
Read a book, man. You have Google. Use it. Just the history of the world when one group of people does crappy stuff to another, it's the group with the upper hand who can make decisions to change behaviors that make a difference. The "women or blacks" line is funny...you really haven't given much thought to these…
Point being, if you were to dress a male character in body armor and leave the upper legs exposed, everyone would immediately recognize how stupid that is. It's not even functional, and it looks absurd. So why, then, would we do it on a female character model? If you're honest about your answer, I think you'll…
Im not sure why you think I'm making the poses equivalent. Again, the issue isn't that men and women both have sexually suggestive poses, its that designers relegate almost all women to the suggestive poses.
And I'm not quite sure what you mean by you don't see those in "real life." When I walk down the street, I…
Yeah, people seem hooked on the idea that either you've got a full-blown, get-thee-to-a-rehab-centre eating disorder or you have no eating disorder at all, which is really problematic. I don't really know how to fix that, maybe shift the focus from "having an eating disorder" to "you engage in disordered eating" would…
From the linked article:
Get ready for racists.
Congratulations, you've expressed self-awareness and thoughtfulness.
AMEN. The lengths people will go to defend the teenage-fantasy-levels-of-sexualization of women in this medium is beyond me.
I hate over sexualized characters. Big buff men in action games? Believable at least. Girls with massive boobs and tights? They make me feel awkward playing the game when I have people around.
Get ready for a flood of mansplaining and white dude tears in the comments.
His statement/comment was only really bad when in context of what it was a reply to. Yes, you are just making a game, and that's fine. But if someone asks you what your opinion is on the rampant oversexualization of female characters, it's probably not wise to basically imply that you are 100% cool with it.