Comments on: Women in G-Strings…the saga continues five years and counting http://cinderwick.ca/notebook/2007/04/27/women-in-g-stringsthe-saga-continues-five-years-and-counting/ Burning fragments of life with technology. Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Daniel http://cinderwick.ca/notebook/2007/04/27/women-in-g-stringsthe-saga-continues-five-years-and-counting/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Daniel Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:09:26 +0000 http://cinderwick.ca/?p=3#comment-92 Is it really so offensive to you that you would refuse to play a game because of it? A lot of women get caught up in this but conveniently forget that the men are stereotyped just as much. Not every man is white, dark-haired and blue-eyed. Not every man has hulking muscles and a hairy chest, or whatever other stereotype you can think of. That's not really the point, though. The game's fun level is the important part. Sure, it wouldn't kill developers to put more thought into their character designs, but hey.. guys have tolerated playing as guys that are nowhere near their real selves. Why is it suddenly important for us to consider that women are being portrayed as sex objects (while assuming that the men aren't)? That's the media for you. They take something people like (or dislike) and take it to an extreme to evoke more response. That generates attention and generally profit. It works. Is it really so offensive to you that you would refuse to play a game because of it? A lot of women get caught up in this but conveniently forget that the men are stereotyped just as much.

Not every man is white, dark-haired and blue-eyed. Not every man has hulking muscles and a hairy chest, or whatever other stereotype you can think of. That’s not really the point, though. The game’s fun level is the important part.

Sure, it wouldn’t kill developers to put more thought into their character designs, but hey.. guys have tolerated playing as guys that are nowhere near their real selves. Why is it suddenly important for us to consider that women are being portrayed as sex objects (while assuming that the men aren’t)?

That’s the media for you. They take something people like (or dislike) and take it to an extreme to evoke more response. That generates attention and generally profit. It works.

]]> By: Calisto http://cinderwick.ca/notebook/2007/04/27/women-in-g-stringsthe-saga-continues-five-years-and-counting/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Calisto Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:00:45 +0000 http://cinderwick.ca/?p=3#comment-2 well said. A bit of choice would make all the difference in the world for about 90% of the games made. well said. A bit of choice would make all the difference in the world for about 90% of the games made.

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