Sunday 23 August 2015

sexism in video games

ok mate.... so after listening to the article " Damsels In Distress: Female Representation in Video Games
By Eugenia Zobel de Ayala on March 6, 2014 " ( link below ) and I have to say, who ever wrote this sounds like a total idiot and seems to have lost touch with the very topic she's writing about and here's why.

point 1, while here experience may have started out in the year 1994 ( Mario kart 64 )its no longer relevant, just one look at the comment you see ones completely contradicting Eugenia's written by other women non the less explaining that there are a heap of games that don't follow these "Damsels In Distress" rules

point 2, Eugenia's living in the wrong year, she's written a blog about games from the 90's when it was 2014, at the least this post should have been about how the times have changed with the likes of tome raider, gears of war, the new dishonoured and every dragon age as well as many other AAA game titles and the indie community wanting games that tell rich story and compelling game play that sell them, not this  "Damsels In Distress" rubbish that sells it despite what she may have dug up

point 3, last but not least, she's looking at "DOA" (dead or alive) a game made of boob and ass physics generators just for the female characters, a game that had about 50% of its playing community drawing fan fiction and doujin's about them, of cause she'll find sexism there she points out that one of the characters there to get revenge for being raped for christs sakes, (as much as this a topic that may step on tows ) being raped as a back story does not scream strong female leading character.....

https://www.hastac.org/blogs/ezobel/2014/03/06/damsels-distress-female-representation-video-games



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