Clearly, I made a mistake by not being clear that I am not attacking him, but the white male POV he is defending. I'll probably have to stop posting these, because I've done it 100 times :) I am a white male, so...a negative connotation on who he is would be silly.

When anyone uses any negative type of of connotation for a gender/race/class, it's clearly wrong. Totally agree. I think we can differentiate between POVs and people in this discussion.

Not being white male, espousing the tired male patriarchal POV. I seriously screwed up and didn't make this clear (see my other responses.)

Yeah. Obviously, I goofed. I very, very, very much encourage his input. But thank god for people like Anita, too, who at least are making him question. This medium has to be able to listen to criticism, or it can't grow.

Gaming is absolutely better than it was - although that may simply be our society evolving. A point I made in another thread is that are women evolving in games or are designers simply hiding the core POV better through games? We would never have a Ms. Pac-Man in 2013. Just like a ton of pop culture phenomenon,…

I really wish I'd been clearer (and my fault for not being). I'm not attacking the video guy for being white/male but for re-espousing a male centric view. Whether they're gay or not, makes little difference - and my emotional reaction was to hearing the same tired arguments which are not based on rational, critical…

Please see my response below. Not the person, the argument.

Well...to be fair, it is historically what he has done. Now, I'm saying that makes him worse that most cultures, it's indicative of many cultures that seize power. I mean, thousands of milennia ago, we had matriarchial societies that were likely guilty of similar attitudes. But I'm dealing with the time/space that I…

See below. My apologies for not being clearer.

Well...I am a white male, so obviously I don't think we should cut them out of the equation. You're missing a basic point, and to be fair I'm using the archetype of a male POV not in the sense of yours and my point of view, but the paternalistic, chauvinistic POV (one that sadly, has been perpetuated by people like…

Certainly, we're a bit more sophisticated in our games now, that's a reflection of "acceptable social pov" evolving - but it's still interesting as a historical artifact, which in many ways did symbolize a female archetype which hasn't changed but we hide better and/or has changed as the female point of view is now…

You lost me here. Did you delete your initial reply?

Did you watch the video? This is...one of her points.

Bioware's responsibility isn't necessarily to lead - though they should be lauded if they do so, but I think Bioware's pandering to the crowd, reveals more about the crowd. The question of why do we feel we have to keep pleasing, and displaying this POV as opposed to others, is an interesting question. I suppose it's…

I watched this whole thing and the spurious, completely absurd arguments from a white male point of view made me ill. It would take too long to refute each absurd point (from the idea that whether violence in games impacts society or merely reinforces and reflects it still being insanely worthy) to the idea that the…

But as a mainstream entertainment product, Redskins is about as mature, dignified and reasonable as Whiteskins. Which is to say it isn't at all.

I don't know if a focus group of two (or one, in my case) is the best way to determine if it's an insult or not :)

Of course women could stand up and do it - but he was berating Sarkeesian for not doing it. It's. not. her. role. She's coming at it from the POV of someone interested in games and their impact on culture and what it says about us - and it's eye-opening and long, long overdue. There's nothing wrong with those of us…

Kinda reminds me of how people love Rorschach in Watchmen, who was written as a simple-minded brute unable to distinguish or survive in a world of greys - a frightening sociopath with a stunted sense of morality. The thing is, unlike Trevor, even Moore had to agree that his commitment to his uneven sense of morality…

...to be more clear, our opinion of the debate, doesn't mean it's settled in the popular eye. Because of gaming's history, we're fighting an uphill battle, but for the most part, it's only now becoming somewhat accepted as a popular form of art. And there's many, like Ebert, that will continue to cling to the idea of…