the wife has a view on this - basically that the stereotype of "women gamers" is not helped by creating GRRRRR GIRLS YAH! groups that are "GIRL GAMERS WITH ATTITUDE ... GRRRR"
Just get normal looking regular female gamers and just show in a non "unf unf unf" light that they can know at least as much as men.
In games where I can pick my own character, I always play as a woman. :patel
In games where I can pick my own character, I always play as a woman. :patel
In games where I can pick my own character, I always play as a woman. :patel
Me too, I'd rather stare at a chick's ass than a dude's ass.spoiler (click to show/hide)unless it's a fat dude[close]
Playing as women in videogames is like beating off to lesbian porn. :zzz :zzz :zzz
The Fel Day thing - i sort of agreed with the sentiment in the statement if applied to ALMOST EVERYONE in the "Video Game Journalist" space, there were a couple of elements though that brought her sex into it which , obviously, you can't do.The booth babe comment went way over the line. Poor booth babes though, the reaction to this story sends the message that booth babes are worse than dirtpeople.
Nothing better than snorty derision when you tell someone at TGS that , no, you aren't in the gaming industry. :cry
I have no problem with Felicia Day, she seems smart and is obviously attractive. The dude who trolled her probably deserved to get shitcanned. It's high time nerds got publicly shamed for the way they categorically stereotype, demean, and dismiss females who like games or work in the gaming industry (especially in media roles)I really don't think this was a gender thing, guy likely just grabbed the closest derogatory reference available to his drunk mind.
It was either a gender thing or a personal thing. He likely wasn't commenting on the uselessness of gaming media types, as he himself is one.Feels and looks more like a personal thing to me. Jealousy, envy, whatever. More based on the realization of his own low standing vs her (undeserving in his mind) high standing and the realization he would not ever reach that level of popularity.
Hell, just look at the shit Aisha Tyler faced at E3.
That jealous is rooted in gender though. The general issue here always boils down to people believing all women don't have to work as hard as men to advance in the gaming industry, or just about any industry tbh (again, especially media). Gaming forums tend to react quite negatively to just about every female personality who enters their lair. Hell, just look at the shit Aisha Tyler faced at E3.
Women in games are meant only to either be sexual objects or precious, "realistic" characters the male player must feel obligated to save or protect, thus providing some faux emotional connection to appease the need to validate gaming as art. Women in the game industry are also either dismissed outright as attractive airheads who know nothing about gamez or seen as some type of infiltrator/threat.
That jealousy is rooted in gender though.In this case I'm not willing to make that leap just yet.
That jealous is rooted in gender though. The general issue here always boils down to people believing all women don't have to work as hard as men to advance in the gaming industry, or just about any industry tbh (again, especially media). Gaming forums tend to react quite negatively to just about every female personality who enters their lair. Hell, just look at the shit Aisha Tyler faced at E3.
Women in games are meant only to either be sexual objects or precious, "realistic" characters the male player must feel obligated to save or protect, thus providing some faux emotional connection to appease the need to validate gaming as art. Women in the game industry are also either dismissed outright as attractive airheads who know nothing about gamez or seen as some type of infiltrator/threat.
Pretty much.
If a girl is interested in games at all, she's instantly suspect to the hive mind of idiocy. If she just likes casual games, she's a tourist and doesn't "get" the hobby. If she likes to shoot shit, she's a dumb fragmuffin who has no appreciation for "masterpieces" like ICO or whatever. If she's into jrpgs, uh... she's just saying that to keep her totally cool boyfriend around or whatever. In no instance can she be legitimately interested in gaming because ZOMG THIS IS OUR SPECIAL PLACE, YOU AND YOUR TITS ARE NOT ALLOWED.
If she's involved in the industry at all, hoo boy even worse.
edit- I love how in her response to the idiots, Aisha even specifically called out gaf. :wub
wait, is this thread about female characters in games or females who happen to play games?
Gay is beating off while watching penises that aren't yours
so since you forced me to go to another site to understand this threadThats about right yeah
apparently a Destructoid editor referred to Felicia Day as a "glorified booth babe" on Twitter and got fired. Ok!
so since you forced me to go to another site to understand this thread
apparently a Destructoid editor referred to Felicia Day as a "glorified booth babe" on Twitter and got fired. Ok!
so since you forced me to go to another site to understand this thread
apparently a Destructoid editor referred to Felicia Day as a "glorified booth babe" on Twitter and got fired. Ok!
And Wil Wheaten, David Jaffe and more white knighted that hoe so hard even King Arthur was ashamed
twitter is a foreign language to me
twitter is a foreign language to me
Good to see I'm not the only one who feels this way...
the game biz began to mature when it comes to how everyone is treated (while not losing the teeth), i think it's kinda lame all these guys [who are] leaping to her defense (which she can clearly do on her own...if you've met here, you fucking KNOW she can) but these same voices are nowhere to be found/heard when it's men ripping men in the biz. if we really want equality, then fuck it, let's be white knights for anyone being unfair treated (my vote) or shut the fuck up about all of this equality stuff and just admit we don't really mean what we say.