Blizzard on damage control over female character design
Blizzard game designer has apologised for a glib remark on the sexualised nature of female video game characters
Blizzard designer back-tracks on sexualised female characters
Blizzard on damage control over female character design
Blizzard game designer has apologised for a glib remark on the sexualised nature of female video game characters
Ok... that is good and well but what about the muscleified male character design? That is very sexist and should also be addressed as well. (Sarcasm intended for those that might not get it.)
Why the sarcasm? It's a legitimate point. I find these issues both fascinating and incredible complex to try and solve.Originally Posted by dampi256
I think it's simple: people should stop making problems where none exist.
I really don't want to live in some ridiculous hyper-politically-correct world where anything and everything is capable of offending someone.
People need to grow thicker skin. Actually, I think people just need to grow up.
In this particular case I think perhaps people overreacted, but it's clear that women are not represented fairly for the large part in video games. It's true also that men aren't either, and yes by large it's a product of the society we live in.
Sure, I get that. But you don't achieve equality by forcing creators/authors/artists/developers to depict fictitious media as reality and by forcing them to meet feminist demands, racial quotas or whatever.
I have a great amount of respect for women who work in heavily male-dominated industries. However, I don't appreciate it when people throw their toys out of the cot because they find something "offensive."
It's a work of fiction, it's not something that's meant to be looked at for role-models. You don't bitch about George RR Martin's work having too much murder in it, do you? Why bitch about women being too sexualised in a game--a game you have chosen to play.
I'll never understand why fans of certain media (especially in the gaming world) fall in love with it and then spend their lives bitching to the developers to change the damn media into something completely different.
If you want media that portrays gay people, women as ordinary or meets some racial/gender quota of some sort then play those games.
I, for one, am simply exhausted from all the politically correct bullshit in this world. People really need to get over themselves and lose their ridiculously overinflated sense of entitlement.
Lycanthrope for president, tbh.
I'd prefer to be supreme overlord of all!
But they don't make those games
My ignore list: n/a
Oh? Games such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age (to a lesser degree also Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Neverwinter Nights games) allow players to pick their race, skin-colour, gender and determine their sexuality throughout the course of the game.
Others, such as Prototype 2, Urban Chaos, Jade Empire, Grand Theft Auto, Chronicles of Riddick, Beyond Good & Evil, etc have all had non-white protagonists and some have been female and not hyper-sexualised.
So... yeah, those games definitely do exist.
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