"it feels a little narrow-minded to purposely exclude the strong female characters just to point out the bad stuff in the game"

This. Anita Sarkeesian's videos have had an important impact on gaming society and she is right about a lot of things. However, that doesn't mean she should be held as beyond criticism.…

John also always ignores the advances of prostitutes in the saloons. Pointing out that he is a happily married man.

I consider myself firmly equal rights, and firmly anti-feminists, and I'd tend to agree that her arguments are weak as hell whenever looking at things holistically, instead of just the context she puts them in. Like her thing about characters (in her case women) that are controlled somehow and you are forced to fight…

Welcome to every argument Anita ever makes.

Interesting. Yeah I'm a little conflicted in my feelings about the sex workers in GTA V as well. I understand the criticism that she's making, but I think that the fact that the strippers in that game are able to deny the player's explicit sexual advances was a really interesting move.

Let me do a pre-post of the common comments so we can avoid clutter.

Thank you!!!

...female gamers are either smart enough to know not to dig through the compost heap of the internet, or are similarly too disgusted to go near it.

"Females already have generic, non-playable characters who walk around lifeless doing nothing. What else do they want?!"

Fuck me! You're right! Good thing that 2 women can speak on behalf of billions of them. Even luckier that it's the two that actually count. Whew. Haha.

I can't even keep up with every post of yours that I want to recommend in this thread. Keep fighting the good fight, even if none of them will ever listen. Man. The resistance that being rational and wanting to include others brings is goddamn depressing.

Where have you been for the last ten years? At worst, she'll get rape/death threats. At most, people will find out where she lives.

"Nor does everyone have to be represented." - said the person from a group that's always represented.

"Ever heard anyone demanding male version of Lara Croft?"

QUOTE | "In my educated opinion, I would estimate this to be a day or two's work. Not a replacement of 8,000 animations." - Game animator Jonathan Cooper, commenting on Ubisoft's explanation that “It was a question of focus and a question of production” to not include a female character option in Assassin's Creed…

Isnt it also peculiar that you could say ANYTHING that has the word misogyny in it and these people start foaming at the mouth? It's like a Pavlovian response or something. Makes it clear their arguments don't come from a rational place, which is both scary and sad.

If MRAs on 4chan (I mean the ones posting on 4chan itself) are just trolling, then that is one hell of a dedicated act they have going.

So, people have a beef with what is being represented, and you have a beef with that. You then defend yourself by saying I'm not a privileged white male, which means you can speak for all non-whites and non-males, that they should not be offended. You also are presuming to speak for white males that actually want…

Demo, if any company should be receptive to questions and potential criticism about the handling of diversity in their games, it's Ubisoft.

The fact you don't realize why this is such a major issue, is exactly why this is a major issue!