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curl-6 on 19 August 2014
DanneSandin said:

Yes, Samus is a great female character, like I just said in the post above.

The bolded part is the problem we're discussing. They're doing it just to entice people, to fulfill their sex fantasies. And that my friend, is sexism. And gaming is so full of it that girls don't wanna be here and talk gaming to us guys.

I don't think that in itself is inherently sexist.

Personally, I think the toxic misogyny of the gaming community is more represented by the fact that women can't play online openly without being bombarded by "get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich".



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archer9234 on 19 August 2014
DanneSandin said:
archer9234 said:
DanneSandin said:
archer9234 said:
DanneSandin said:
curl-6 said:
The pervasive sexist culture of gaming in general actively discourages and punishes female participation.

This. Everyone; read this. I'm actually kinda sick and tired of gaming culture since it's sexistic as fuck, both among gamers and developers. You've seen Samus Arans latest outfit in SMash right? That's what's wrong with the gaming industry as a whole. It's abigger issue than the AAA industry

Oh, come on. Those are old suits designs. If they stuck in her Metroid 1 Bikini, complain then.

And that is a part of the problem. Like I said in my response, I can understand why they had that suit on the NES, because of limited resources of that time. They wanted to make sure that she actually looked like a girl. But is that neseccery nowadays? No. Now we can plainly see if it's a girl or not.

I agree sexism is stupid. But to me, this outfit isn't it. The Bikini one is. Samus to me is hot even up to her Viara suit. So she's gonna be hot no matter what she wears. It's really not gonna change anytime soon. Unless somehow the userbase of gamers go 50/50. Then more bare chested guys would be used to sell games.

Like I've already said, Samus might be THE best female character there ever was, so that makes this all the more stupid; she doesn't NEED to be shown in bikinis, she's awesome as it is.

True. Well, no side is gonna win in this argument. Sex is gonna continue to sell. Intill more women start playing games. Then companies will use male sex images more.



outlawauron on 19 August 2014
curl-6 said:
maximus22 said:
I'm sure every other user having a cartoon underage girl as their avatar doesn't help.

How else are we supposed to identify the Playstation fans? :p

This is not a troll, I genuinely have noticed PS fans seem to have a distinct anime motif.

Saws the person with a Fatal Frame avatar.

curl-6 said:
outlawauron said:
curl-6 said:
The pervasive sexist culture of gaming in general actively discourages and punishes female participation.

Gaming culture is certainly punishing female participation. I've seen some opression!

Sarcasm?

Couldn't be more sarcastic.



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And snuggle the girls be they short or tall,
Then follow young Mat whenever he calls,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows."

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NiKKoM on 19 August 2014
Purple said:
Sony and Microsoft target male audiences almost exclusively so it's not entirely surprising that it's guys who are more interested in the industry.

Sadly, Nintendo seems to be going down the same path recently. Especially with the Wii U.

thats actually a great responce... I shall make an official "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" thread in the Mobile section to be more open for our (potential) female users..



 

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kinisking on 19 August 2014
DerNebel said:
Because we have this one user that has to make a masturbation joke in about 50% of his posts. And he posts a lot.


I don't go on much but ik who you're talking about xD



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Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

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DanneSandin on 19 August 2014
curl-6 said:
DanneSandin said:

Yes, Samus is a great female character, like I just said in the post above.

The bolded part is the problem we're discussing. They're doing it just to entice people, to fulfill their sex fantasies. And that my friend, is sexism. And gaming is so full of it that girls don't wanna be here and talk gaming to us guys.

I don't think that in itself is inherently sexist.

Personally, I think the toxic misogyny of the gaming community is more represented by the fact that women can't play online openly without being bombarded by "get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich".

YES!! What a fucking awful thing to say to someone! NOONE wants to be in the kitchen ;) but you're totally right - and that's a bigger problem than gaming budgets and everything else. This form of entertainment will never become mainstream as long as that kind of behaiviour persists.



I'm on Twitter @DanneSandin!

Furthermore, I think VGChartz should add a "Like"-button.

curl-6 on 19 August 2014
outlawauron said:
curl-6 said:
maximus22 said:
I'm sure every other user having a cartoon underage girl as their avatar doesn't help.

How else are we supposed to identify the Playstation fans? :p

This is not a troll, I genuinely have noticed PS fans seem to have a distinct anime motif.

Saws the person with a Fatal Frame avatar.

Fatal Frame 5 is not an anime. ;)



AZWification on 19 August 2014
Areym said:

There are plenty of women! In fact, i've had like 5 of them private message me, basically begging for the D! They got weird names though.

I'm quite gangster.

Spambots don't count!



                
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Hedra42 on 19 August 2014
RavenXtra said:
The Fury said:
The_Sony_Girl1 said:
What site is VGirlz? I can't find it with google.

Turn the safe search off... :P Maybe...

Or spell it right, its vgrlz not vgirlz xD

Hmm, just by looking at the 5 latest shouts there, I'd say they're welcome to it. I think I prefer the relatively more relaxed stench of the mens locker room.  :D



DanneSandin on 19 August 2014
archer9234 said:
DanneSandin said:

Like I've already said, Samus might be THE best female character there ever was, so that makes this all the more stupid; she doesn't NEED to be shown in bikinis, she's awesome as it is.

True. Well, no side is gonna win in this argument. Sex is gonna continue to sell. Intill more women start playing games. Then companies will use male sex images more.

Unfortunately, gaming is pretty much a men's club, and gamers don't seem capable of letting women in. Now, not ALL gamers are like this, but there's quite a lot of would be rapists out there amongst gamers, if you go by their online comments anyways.



I'm on Twitter @DanneSandin!

Furthermore, I think VGChartz should add a "Like"-button.