| SlayerRondo said: I agree with your opinion, and believe that the way to get companies to produce games with more and better female characters is through positive methods like supporting games with strong female leads, getting more women to enter the games industry as they will have more of a passion to write female characters then men (and vice versa) and getting more women into gaming so the demand for female protagonist increases beyond what the male audience would traditionaly want. Gaming companies/developers, contradictory to what Anita says, do not hate women or want to promote sexism, but are playing to their own and the audience taste. Most game developers are males and thus are more likely to write male characters that they can better identify with and the male gaming audience on average prefers male protagonist to female protagonist and the gaming companies provide more male characters who are better fleshed out. I think that their is greater demand for more and better female characters then is currently being provided for gamers (including men like myself) but that will change are that information becomes more apparant, more girls play major game titles and more female get into game development. What hurts the proponents of having more and better female characters is the negative campaigns like those of Anita Sarkesian. She takes the fact that the gaming companies offer games geared more towards men and rather than admitting its because men are traditionally the primary audience for these games calls the developers sexist at best and promoting hate towards women at worst. This is over the top and will cause people to disconnect from the issue entirely. |
Anita is surely hurting the situation more than she's helping it. She's contributing to whatever sexist opinions exist in the gaming culture by not being reasonable whatsoever. I'm pretty sure she's not even a gamer, and she never really knows about the games she speaks out against.
The only way there can be more representation for races, sexes and sexualities in gaming is for there to be a positive air about them. We can't have this dark, negative propaganda floating around because it freaks companies out and sets them back from making the first step. It's sad, but true.
