Every so often a new game comes out and breaks the Internet, and right now Tampon Run seems like just the right game for such an occasion. This game aims to take away the stigma behind menstruation while also raising awareness for the plate that women in developing countries face as far as being able to get access to tampons, sanitary napkins or other things that most people just take for granted. You run, you throw tampons at boys, and you try to get the highest score possible.
DealForALiving joins the fight to eliminate the menstrual taboo by providing tips, tricks, and strategies for Tampon Run on IOS.
Two New York high schoolers are hoping to combat misogyny with Tampon Run, a game that cleverly replaces guns in an old school shooter game with, well, tampons. The girls, who graduated from the Girls Who Code camp — a program that teaches girls to code in hopes of closing the gender gap in tech — this summer, thought it was strange that violence and guns seem to be so mainstream in our culture while talking about periods — which every woman experiences — is not. Hence the invention of Tampon Run. In the game, tampons are used as projectiles to throw at oncoming enemies.
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Surely nobody is delusional and/or dumb enough to think that's the case.
There is definitely some sexism in gaming. There's anough of it just around here.
Being absolutist about it just make people look either dismissive or insane. You can argue about its severity or importance - you can say "but it's the same outside of gaming!" And other debatable but legitimate claims - but you can't in any way claim it doesn't exist at all.
Insanity.
It's not sexism to draw a woman that's overly attractive. It's not sexism to want to look at a naked body or want to touch one... It's not sick or gross or wrong. When all you do is watch or play things where people die or get killed that is. Please stop with this western moral crap. Sex isn't bad killing is. You're the one that's backwards
You're an idiot. You can make that argument on just about anything, so your point is meaningless. It is a fact that any sexism in games is negligible compared to any other medium. I hope you're not a woman. I wouldn't want to come off as sexist.
Oh Good! Mixelon! For a second there I thought you weren't going to show up. You're in these particular comment sections day in, day out, expecting a different result from other folks, so I thought you would be the person to ask this insane question to. I'm asking your expert opinion, because I want to KNOW how this can pertain to making a game. Okay...here's my question.
What the hell is a tampon? And what do they do?
There is defiantly Inequality outside of gaming, but none present within Gaming, all it is, is about having fun, a Hobby,although some delusional people mistake Marketing to a specific demographic as sexism
Wait, is this Satire, this recent Altercation with the Indie Dev was about Corruption in the Gaming Industry
How ironic. They seek equality in gaming by making a game that is completely irrelevant to males.
Do some of these girl gamers not know there are renowned female game designers still designing games to this day?
How are they "bitching and moaning" they just made a game. Back the fuck off.
That's the funny thing. Some of the best games on the shelf we written by a female, a lot were even designed by a female.
GameDevs - Here’s something you don’t see everyday – an 8bit game about menstruation and throwing tampons at dudes in pink hats. The social statement it makes is bloody good too (sorry!)
Good job girls this will earn you respect towards women/girls on this gaming industry.
I call BS! There are a lot of things that are NATURAL that are not talked about in polite conversation and are not sensationalized like "violence and guns."
Waste and or Excrement
Lactation
Genitals (Our society calls them "PRIVATE PARTS" FFS! yet they are natural)
Ejaculate
Mucus
and more...
There are plenty more things that are natural that we don't talk about and its not to SHAME anyone. This game on the other hand is SHAMING boys since according to the article it doesn't say you peg other women with tampons but only men. I find that a little ironic since "Yet most people, women and men alike, feel uncomfortable talking about anything having to do with menstruation."
Needless to say its personal insecurities not societal. There are commercials for tampons all over the TV. If you feel embarrassed to buy a box for your significant other than that's YOUR problem not a societal one. I see more commercials for tampons on TV than for Guns. Should a person feel embarrassed when they have to buy athletes foot spray, or jock itch cream, or hemorrhoid creme... Maybe I should throw some of that on a person to "Raise Awareness" about how its just natural.
