| RolStoppable said: When I take into account what you say, then why did that gamrreview article portray it as if women don't like Samus Aran? Since I personally don't know any females who like Metroid, it's easy to believe that there is really only a tiny fraction of women who do like Metroid. Perhaps a writer with an anti-Nintendo bias who hand-picked quotes that suited an agenda? |
Twenty people isn't really that many. The women he talked to just weren't fans. If he used their response to say that Samus wasn't liked by women on the whole, then he went much too far in doing so - only two of the women polled were actually quoted, so it's difficult to say how many of them even really knew who Samus is.
It likely doesn't have anything to do with developer biases, and probably everything to do with that he just talked to ladies who don't happen to like Samus. It's likely nothing more sinister than that.
Men and women have larger trends in what they like, but using those gender-wide trends to try to predict the interests of individuals or even small groups is where the problem of sexism (or most similar prejudices) comes from. We're all different in our interests, and that's pretty great.
