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Mr.Playstation said: Thank you for your opinion and while I do agree with you on certain expects especially on what you said on the first and final paragrapgh. I do not agree though that woman are underrepresented in gaming and neither does Anita as it seems, she is however trying to change as you said how woman are represented in gaming and if she kept how woman are represented sexually in games I would have agreed with her, (We have problems in games when it comes to this) but when she talked about how woman should not be dansal in distresses ( Which if I am not mistaken was her first video ) I had to disagree with her. One has to also see the real world for this, Woman are weaker than men in physical strenght and so therefore they require more protection and so if we take video games as physical extensions I don't see how this can change.
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Did you really just try and use "women are weaker than men" as an argument why women shouldn't be portrayed as helpless damsels so often in video games?
First, you don't have to be physically strong to not be a damsel. There are plenty of video game protagonists, male and female, that are not that strong physically. This matters even less when you add fantasy elements to video games. There games with monsters and magic but the idea that a woman could compete with a man is the fantasy part? What?
If you want to use real life to base how video games (often with fantasy elements) should be created, women in real life can be perfectly capable of defending themselves against stronger attackers. Weaker men also fight off stronger opponents as well. There is also the issue of assuming a woman will automatically be weaker than her attacker - there are a lot of women who are physically stronger than men.
A lot of video games also use weapons like knives and guns. Why is a female character inherently less capable of using these than a male character? If male characters can rescue kidnapped female characters (a very common scenario) I don't see why a female character can't save another character.
Gamers can accept male characters fighting off giant monsters or hordes of enemy soldiers but the idea that female characters can fight male characters isn't "realistic"? You do realize there are women who are professional martial artists/fighters, and many militaries around the world employ women as soldiers that are perfectly capable of carrying out combat duties, right?
Your attitude exemplifies sexism in the Gaming Community and sexism in society as a whole.
