Solving sexism in games: Fat/ugly human female characters

[Menegrothx]

I mean honestly when I look at the games I've been playing as of late I can't think of many bad representations of women (except maybe DQ8 but even that could be a cultural difference between countries...)

Well a huge portion of games come from Japan and feminism is a lot less stronger there than it is in North America and North Europe (although it still is far from the Islamic world). And on top of that there's the whole culture of cute/moe thing, with game developers designing their characters for the largest, most important consumer group, otakus.

[FiftyDollarCurse]

I've been watching Anita Sarkeesian's YouTube videos as well as other feminism-related videos and I have completely missed their point.

FTFY

Thank you.

[Valkyrie-Favor]

Arguing about gender issues in regard to video game characters is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

I feel this way about a lot of "progressive" talk.

[pierrot]

^Solving sexism isn't about a court mandate. It's about fixing a perception by one sex of the other as objects, or the lesser. Addressing sexism in any medium isn't about, "taking it to the man." It's about striking the root cause, which mostly entails reevaluating deeply rooted perceptions of gender roles, and the place of each (all) gender(s) in society.

[Nutty]

I've been watching Anita Sarkeesian's YouTube videos as well as other feminism-related videos and I have completely missed their point.

FTFY

[Retrogamer0001]

^Solving sexism isn't about a court mandate. It's about fixing a perception by one sex of the other as objects, or the lesser. Addressing sexism in any medium isn't about, "taking it to the man." It's about striking the root cause, which mostly entails reevaluating deeply rooted perceptions of gender roles, and the place of each (all) gender(s) in society.

And you're going to accomplish this by discussing it in an online forum for retro video games? Please. Take it to sociology class. If you're looking to address "the root cause" for gender inequality and sexism, you're definitely looking in the wrong place.

[Luke]

You are welcome:

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/threadwon

[ZenErik]

You are welcome:

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/threadwon

Oh wow. Didn't even know that guy was still around.

[Luke]

You are welcome:

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.c ... videogames

/threadwon

Oh wow. Didn't even know that guy was still around.

I was surprised too.

[brunoafh]

Maddox hasn't really missed a beat, if anything he is more active than ever.