First of all, I'm a dude.

You can look it up on the Internet if you're curious enough to. It's not a particularly novel idea. Up to you.

Can you really not distinguish between a) people who choose for themselves to wear fetish outfits, and b) characters who are designed as wearing fetish outfits?

That is way too long to go point by point, nor would I think it helpful for you.

If you identify with the culture, then it is good that you feel aggrieved. But it should not be in a defensive way - for you know yourself already, so whether the term is used broadly, or if someone considers you a misogynist or a distractor, based on this sole internet comment, all of these things are fairly…

I guess that begs the question if there's an ironic men's-only feminist club somewhere.

I don't know about the "real life" geek culture, but judging by what I've seen of the gaming side of it, particularly with in-game chat and such, is that it's a stronghold of misogyny made rampant and extremely vulgar by anonymity.

I found it more troubling that many of our fellow dudebros couldn't figure out why it was problematic in the first place.

Well, I can agree on that. Thanks for the discussion.

Rude, but okay.

-Of course porn is offensive. *scratches head*

With the persistent enemies, seems like that's the route it's going. Have you played the Crysis games? They were made by the original FC1 developers.

Not for dating, no, but to point to the less-than-just status of society, certainly so!

I've only once dated a girl who preferred to make plans. She planned our first date, and maybe three or four after that. I have to say, she totally won me over through my laziness. An openly proactive woman is rare and splendid thing.

If your justification for gender roles is pure biological differences (and their intersection with modern life), then you and I have closer views than immediately apparent - there are only a tiny handful that we really can't get rid of - child bearing being one of the primary examples.

Right, so examine the context - the presence of fetish outfits in a trailer for a game made predominantly for men, and completely out of context with the scenario presented... this wasn't a gunfight at a latex convention. It would've been completely possible, and infinitely more plausible, to have them wear combat…

I actually struggled with this for a while - eventually I decided that I actually just enjoy paying. Feeding people I care about is probably one of the best uses of money, after so many other mundane stupid things - student loans, car insurance, etc.

Haha. I think the same thing, but from the other side. Sometimes I don't know if I want to ask a girl out because I've been conditioned to make the first move, or because I just plainly want to ask her out.

You believe in gender roles, but can you justify them? What makes this broad average role of a "man" and "woman" appropriate, or just?