Kevin of Xboxer360 writes, "I find feminism really interesting, especially in the history of media. It’s interesting to look back over the last few decades of film for example, and see how the depictions of women have changed over time. The same can be said of many different sects, such as race, age and sexuality (I just finished writing my dissertation on elderly women in the media, which had me looking at such patterns).
But for some reason, when the issue of feminism is brought up in the gaming community, people cry foul, sometimes in extremely offensive ways, just see the treatment of Anita Sarkeesian as proof.
People seem fine slapping Twilight about for having a horrible representation of women and setting the image of women back 50 years, but when someone mentions the “Princess is in another castle” trope, armies are rallied. Why is that?"
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I don't understand how feminism, and sexual orientation can be such a touchy subject in general in this day and age.
The majority of media has been absorbed by feminism over the last few decades. Books, movies, and TV programming especially are all geared towards women, or at the very least they have to be friendly towards women. I'm not talking about paid-for specialty channels. I'm talking about prime-time TV channels that everyone gets. How many shows do you see portraying the clueless, bumbling, I-just-can't-get-anything- right husband/boyfriend paired up with the intelligent/witty/beautiful/sa ssy woman? Plenty. How many shows do you see about a strong man and a bimbo woman? None. It would be "offensive" to women, so boo-hoo we can't show stuff like that.
Gaming is just the next aspect of media that will follow this route. 50% of gamers are women, after all.
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I already posted this a while ago in another article, but I think it feels just as appropriate here:
If women want to be represented more in gaming, then feminists have to understand that ALL types of females will be portrayed...not just the strong, smart ones that they'd conveniently like to see portrayed. In the REAL world, there are princesses who sadly seek men to rescue them in life, there are tough, business minded women too. There are also promiscuous women, evil women, violent women, manipulative types, scandily-clad women walking the streets, and frilly weak-minded types too. Just like with men. So whenever she complains about the portrayal of women in games, I would have to ask her why SHE is so the one being so narrow-minded: As there are plenty of women in games, however, they just don't fit the role that Anita would LIKE them to be in. However, there are like-minded women in the world that can be compared to these characters too. It's great when we see more strong female roles in games like Jade from Beyond Good & Evil; The new Lara Croft; Elena Fischer of Uncharted, etc.
But the reality is that there are ALSO women in the world that are comparable to Cruella De Vil who are passive-aggressive and calculatingly cold (instead of heroic, as Ms. Sarkeesian would prefer their image to be white-washed as being), and other women who are unfortunately similar to Princess Peach who act as if they are helpless to save themselves. But just like Princess Peach, if Women are ever going to see the types of characters that they want to see, they are gonna have to do it themselves. Stop trying to pass guilt on the male counterparts of the industry. THEY are not women, so they only put female characters based on the one's they are familiar with in real life.
Simply taking a (traditionally) male "role", and replacing it with a female skin is not being genuinly "female". It will take a woman to make one. So stop pestering the guys about it. There is good and bad found in both genders, and YES, those differences are distinct between the genders, based on culture, up-bringing, and gender roles in their respective homes/communities. So if she wants to see improved gender roles for women, I would instead ask her to consider ALL possible roles for women in fiction, that are common in the REAL world. Not just heroic. But all. That way, REAL issues about female roles can be addressed (Hint: it won't be found by insinuating thaf Mayamoto's Peach character is some clever conspiracy to demean women). Women can find games as a medium to explore these roles and the cause/origin of said roles (especially if women help make the games themselves). But don't beg the men in the industry to make that change for you. They are not women. And this constant "entitlement" that Ms. Sarkeesian has that ALL women should be portrayed as heroic, is not going to solve the real issues women have in society, nor change anyone's perception of the many other types of women that exist in this world who are not heroic, smart, loving, kind, motherly, powerful, rich, or mentally stable. It would just be swapping a male for a female (even though said male is not even real). So please stop begging for a fake, forced-equality via Political Correctness. Seriously, it's as pathetic as a food-stamp/welfare hand-out. If you want the truth about women to be portrayed in games, Ms. Sarkeesian, then your gonna need to portray every angle, truthfully.
Because sitting around and waiting on men to do it out of some perceived "obligation", is no different than Princess Peach sitting around and waiting for Mario to obligatorily save her.
How? Because the bulk of the people playing the game are men? Sounds like an easy enough explanation to me. Especially when the average "feminist" is not fighting/debating for equal rights but an empowerment and advantage over men. Whatever happened to the Humanist that wanted to elevate the status and well being of all mankind?
The "male" logic used by Donnieboi isn't going to make things "equall" for Feminist.
These women are damaged goods, they don't wan't "equall" rights, they want to function on the same level as men but instead of performing/producing like men, they want the bars to be lowered on all plains so they get head starts, less expectations, more respect /freedom/ income and entitlements then men.
Equall rights my ass, they are out to dominate the male species in ways beyond most ppl's imaginations.
Their end goal is excactly this, and men across the world are suffering to a point that they are so demasculated to the core, that they walk around sick depressed and dominated by the head of the familie, the women...
And she won't be happy, no, she wants a real man, and make's him aware of this daily, wile all he can do is try to cheer up and please her...
Now they try the medium video games, they will succeed, but not with this guy, I'm there worst nightmare.