(January 5, 2015 at 11:51 am)Blackout Wrote: Specifically there's not evidence a videogame (a particular one) makes people sexist - However saying it simply caters to sexism is not a wise argument - It doesn't cater, it basically perpetuates it by recurring to the lowest common denominator. I can't prove that game X or Y results in increased sexism against individual Z, but I can prove since there's tremendous research on it since decades ago that forms of entertainment and media impact how we see society, and therefore a game keeping a certain stereotype in it's content is basically saying "this stereotype is ok, it's not wrong, it's fun, it's real"...If people weren't sexist (and if sexism couldn't be fun) there would be no market for sexist games- and devs, not running charities, wouldn't waste their money making them. Notice the dearth of feces flavored ice-cream on store shelves? Same forces at play. We've heard this song and dance over here decades ago. Busybodies in government plied the same bullshit, it got shot down, and all we got were the "M ratings" that..apparently, boosted sales of violent video games...lol.
Quote:Se where I'm getting to? And what harm would it do to the gaming community including males to have more female representation? Males like playing as females or having strong aggressive females in games, some men even have fetishes with that stuff (women like Lara Croft and such), Tomb Raider for example proves males like playing as females as well as long as there's adventure, plot, puzzles, combat, good gameplay, etc.Lara Croft is the feminine version of a walking gun platform. She's a rack to hang tits on (who occassionally shoots people). Good game though. Seriously, you're having a discussion with me about sexism in games and the good ones you point to are Solid Snake and Lara Croft? This discussion must have an entirely different flavor overseas.....
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