Sexism in Gaming

[S.T.A.G.E.]

Skullwaker said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

There has been more sexist behavior for gaming as a all-male boys club than actual development. If you want to face the real issue....there it is. 8/10 when a man is creating a game about a woman it is created from the male perspective or the fantasy, no different than a stylized comic book. Men draw scantily clad women with powers and fake tits because thats what the artists find attractive and feel is the ideal of how the character should look. That is artistic freedom. Women draw effeminate men on deviant art all the time. They like skinnier more effeminate men in some of the drawings they do. Thats not sexism..thats artistic freedom. Sexism is discrimination against a person because of their sex.

Bingo. What people don't realize is that games =/= real life. Unless a game is purposefully trying to emulate real life in every way, and showing blatant discriminatory beliefs towards a group as a result of the developer's values, then I don't see how this is an issue. Non-representation is more of an issue, but downright sexism? Not so much.

Anita Sarkeesian wants women to be portrayed as no different men. No doubt they can do what do and they can hold their own, but they dont do it the way in which we do it nor are they built like us. It cannot be copied. They way they do things much like ours is beautiful because it is different and individual, but in Anita's world...there is no difference. I've seen a transgender fighter go into a boxing league and wreck women. I am talking about hardened fighters within the womens leagues. Even women bigger than the transgendered competitor. I am a feminist myself, but there is a difference and at some point she needs to stop and smell the roses and accept what makes us both beautiful as seperate sexes (gender roles aside).

Meisha Tate on Fallon Fox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtW0KbpN-UA

Rhonda Rousey (UFC womens champion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9XU4QOqVbQ