gingergaymer said:
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. |
Thank you Sir for expressing your opinion. I am not in any way shape or form sexist. I believe in equel rights for both men and woman when it comes to the amount of power each gender has in a society. This can and will be surely achieved sometime soon, but completly equell rights cannot be reached due to both genders being inheridently different. Woman even if you do not want to agree with me are physically weaker on the whole when compared to men. There is no denying this. I have met woman who can obviously kick my butt if they wanted too, but even I who isn't really that strong am stronger than most females my age. Video games can be taken as an extension of the real world were altough we may have carachters such as tigers, penguins and who else knows and we may live in kingdomes impossible to imagine in real life, they still potray real life situations., So obviously caracthers which are female in the game will be potrayed as weaker in real life. Of course there are exceptions we have games such as Mass Effect and Cod:ghosts ehich show that woman can be as strong as their male counterparts but just like in the real world there are very few woman like these.
