GDC Rant: "The medium is not adolescent, you're ****ing adolescent"

[Gamerace]

badgenome said:

Gamerace said:
To the guys berating Heather.

While I agree her approach was a little off, her points are solid. Why are you so threatened by games being made that appeal to both sexes instead of purely adolescent males?

Are you that insecure that suddenly no 'guy' games will be made? Ridiculous. We still have 'guy' movies and 'guy' music and we'll always have 'guy' games.

But there's no reason as an industry as a whole we can't move towards games being made for all people instead of aimed squarely at one demographic.

I'm not sure that anybody feels threatened. I've successfully ignored Petz and Babyz and Wii Whatever for some time now. I'm sure I can keep it up.

I think if she had used a different tone but made the same basic points, most people would have yawned and moved on. But she said a lot of abrasive shit based on stereotypes, and that's the sole reason this thread is making you so much VG moneyz.

I get VG$ everytime someone posts in a thread I created?  Really?  ... (checks vg$ total... damn! Starts spamming threads)

I didn't take any of her comments personally or even as a jugdment of the male sex, as I've been saying the same things for quite some time.    I guess the way I was forced to paraphase her comment to make it fit in the thread titles didn't help either now that I think about it from that angle.