Female clans launch protest

Two all-female gaming clans are protesting against a new beauty contest which they say could damage the way women gamers are perceived.

The winner of the Miss World Series Videogames contest will receive $1000, a contract to appear at all WSCG events, and will be featured in a forthcoming game. The only gaming-related entry requirement is that entrants state what their favourite game is.

Both the US Frag Dolls and the PMS clan are boycotting the contest - and have decided to hold their own Mr WSVG competition in protest.

[COVER GIRL]

LOL he he he...

[Gh0stDrag0n]

The Frag Dolls are great! Beauty has nothing to do with kickin' a$$ on a video game. It's all skill.
(BTW.. the Frag Dolls are HOT!)

[Lucidmantra]

Ohhh GAWD.... SO why don't we close down Maxim, FHM, and all those magazines... also Cosmo, Seventeen and all the womens magazines. I say have a Mr Beefcake contest and shut them up, not that I don't agree but the majority of players are guys. Even though Woman gamers are growing faster. Just make it like prom and there is a King and Queen and everyone can shut up. Just like prom king/queen those people were irrelivant palm greasing jackasses who ended up fat and unhappy.

/sarcasm off

This should be about #10,745 on the list of things that are important in the world right now.

[Sphinx]

... a videogame prom!

[deepio]

Serious videogamers don't have time to protest...infact serious video gamers don't even have time to post commen..

[Gh0stDrag0n]

I take it you didn't get laid after your prom.

[Lucidmantra]

I guess serious gamers don't have jobs either where they can post during slower periods. Actually I didn't goto prom, But I was getting laid. And you all missed the point of the post completely. Next time I will linky up a picture for the slow ones who can't read.

[Cyclonus]

Lemme get this straight. These girls dress like extras in a rap video, have nicknames like "PMS Tart", then complain when they're not taken seriously?

A 'feminine feminist' is a contradiction in terms.
Pick one.

[Dick Jones]

This could damage the way women gamers are perceived? Right, just like a nagging house wife to complain about anything and everything.

[REDMOND BOYZZ]

Hubba Hubba look at those bazzoombas.

[Cyclonus]

How come you never see really FAT or Ugly girls in these Clans? Don't fat chicks play games too? Can't a Two-Bagger be good at Halo?

Most of these female Clans are filled with, at the very least, thin, moderate-to-very attractive women(several of whom have had even breast augmentation).

They all look like college cheerleading squads...

Could it be that these gir-uh, sorry-WOMEN are THEMSELVES guilty of sexism; only allowing candidates of a certain physical archetype to join their ranks?

I doubt very much they represent the 'average' female gamer, just as the typical male gamer doesn't likely resemble a Ralph Lauren model(except me, j/k ;)

They should replace "PROTESTING a new beauty contest", with "PARTICIPATING IN a new beauty contest". Considering physical "beauty" seems to be a pre-requisite for membership in these Clans, if they really wanted to protest the Objectification Of the Female Gamer, they'd do it in front of a MIRROR.

[pRo loGic II]

I agree rabbit-pig-goat thingy but alot of you're post is just life.

[MoonDust]

MUAHAA!

[zinnia]

{{{Damage the way women gamers are perceived}}}Hmm?? whats the big deal either way.?

[MISSY E]

You go girls.