Angry readers want Gamespot reviewer fired after her GTA V review

[Mythmaker1]

Max King of the Wild said:

Mythmaker1 said:

Max King of the Wild said:
Read his review. I think if he is foing to have a job as a reviewer he should know definitions of words. Like misogyny and hypocrisy. Hilarious as my first post in this thread said these are the two most commonly misused words that i see around here. It isnt hypocritical thinking that torture wont work but when you torture someone it actually does. And having characters treat women like shit doesnt make the game misofynistic either.

Precisely. Maybe the game is misogynistic; I don't know. Maybe the game is wish-washy on the characters' politics; again, I don't know. But none of the examples she brought up correctly embody those ideas. If these were genuine issues present in the game, she needed to take the time to demonstrate that.

Yeah, last GTA game I played was Vice City too. But the reviewer brought up a radio ad saying for a perfume said "smell like a bitch" and then she points out masculinity is sterotyped by fast cars.... Then says that its not satire... again, I think the reviewer needs a dictionary because I'm pretty sure the game is making fun of consumerism and how companies sell their product with satirical ads.

Only way, in my opinion, you can classify a game a misogynistic if the point of the game was misogynistic. For example, a game where all you do is go home and beat your wife or you can only kill women. But honestly, its a game about crime. I doubt the criminals are going to be hanging out with a strong female role model. It would be like watching Saturday Night Fever and saying the movie is misogynistic because John Travolta calls women bitches, cunts and lets his friends rape a woman. The character may be misogynistic but it doesn't make the movie that. That is the story that someone decided to tell and if you are so naive to think people like that dont exist then I don't know what to say.

I more or less agree. For me to consider a game misogynistic, it would have to do two things: one, present women (not just a woman, but women in general) in a negative or legitimately disempowered fashion; two, present that as somehow being okay. Without both, it's simply representing misogyny, not promoting it.