My understanding was that part of the point of the game as a whole was to provoke discussion- it certainly accomplished that. Maybe not very deep or well informed conversation, but I guess it's better than no discussion.

The issue with this whole conversation (obviously in my own opinion) is that you can't force an entire medium to either be serious or non-serious at once. It's perfectly fair to examine each game individually and decide on a level of seriousness based on actual content and partly on the intent of the developers, but…

My own bad behavior? That's exactly the kind of finger pointing I'm talking about. I haven't done anything to exclude women from gaming. I AM a game dev and I work with women who are treated as equals in our office. Maybe you have trouble imagining this happens because I'm not American. And yet you feel the need to…

Did you even read what I said? Yes there are huge sexism issues, but they do not come from the video game industry. Do you not see that framing an entire industry as sexist (when it's not the cause of said sexism) damages that industry? It takes perceived value away from the industry, increases hostility, and very…

Again, my response was not to the article, it was entirely to you saying that "these problems ... don't happen to straight white guys".

I think you're misunderstanding my comments to mean that I think the article is invalid, should not have been written, is not important, or that I disagree with it's content- that is not the case.

My first response was not to the article, it was to you.

You're entirely missing the point. I'm not making it about men. Pointing the blame at men is making it about men, I'm trying to oppose what I think is inappropriate placement of blame.

That's where our opinions differ. You're claiming that women's problems in the workplace are caused primarily and directly by straight white guys, and I disagree. I think there's a larger picture, beyond deciding on an identifiable subgroup of people to place blame on.

I work in the industry, and I agree that the problems being discussed exist- but not more than in other industries, and quite often not as severely as is depicted in these kinds of articles (not denying that more extreme cases don't exist, I just don't think they're the norm).

I'm not the person who posted the first comment, and I never claimed the article was about strait white guys. I was simply trying to suggest that taking any extreme view (such as "everyone is actually equal, so get over it" or "strait white men are never wronged, thus their opinions are invalid") is probably an…

Those problems absolutely do happen to strait white guys- maybe not as often, but the world and the issues being discussed are clearly not as "black and white" as your comment implies.

I feel like people that are saying "I can do this already" or "what's the point" to the TV related features are missing the point. These features might not be directed at the hardcore gamer- but do we not all benefit from a console that might be better received by the "non-gamers" we live with?

Way to miss the point. When those games came out, nobody cared about the characters sex lives. That's not what the games were about. People cared about the game play, people cared about winning, getting to another level, etc., and everything else was secondary. Nobody plays a Mario game for the steamy sex scenes. …

I don't understand why someone would specifically look for someone that matches themselves in a game. No matter what you do, some aspect of your life, even if you're the standard "white hetero privileged male", is going to place you in a group that is a minority and not equally represented everywhere. Having a job…

I kinda wish we could just go back to not giving a shit who our video game characters want to sleep with.

I honestly think that while this is a worthwhile subject to evaluate, Sarkeesian is far from the right person to guide us through it. She clearly has an agenda/bias that overshadows an otherwise useful analysis. On top of that, she presents her opinion as fact, and some of her so-called facts are inaccurate.

I think you're missing the point here. Calling 50% of gamers women is missing the point. That 50% of gamers who are women are not the ones investing in every new console and buying the AAA titles, building gaming PCs, collecting classic games, participating in the industry, becoming devs, etc. Facebook and iPhone…

I think it's worth pointing out that we're talking about two different things.

The catch isn't about "why would I spend $60 on a bad game?" it's about taking advantage of things like how you'll justify the high purchase price to yourself even if the game is bad, which causes you to equate cost with value. "I've spent $60, so it must be good." "I'm working up to the good parts." "You just don't…