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Jaywood2010 on 19 August 2014
amp316 said:
JayWood2010 said:

And please...  there was nothing offensive about that joke.  And if she was offended by that then she probably gets offended by things like the color red.


I  know her well enough to know she isnt as easily offended as youre making her out to be.  This is the exact kind of behavior that is annoying though.  Do not ridicule her or others because you have a different belief.  All she asked was to cut the sexist jokes down, and whether or not she gave any other examples doesnt matter.  Its against the rules and you KNOW for a fact that sexist jokes on this website is made other than the time Galkai said something.  She shouldnt have to search through 100's of threads to find other examples.  Again, she just asked for you all to be more respectful towards the female members which the community/mods werent.  It really is as simple as that.  Do not blame marucha, do not blame other female members whom i will not name, if that is how they felt then you can not tell them to feel another way.  Its all about a thing called respect which many on this forum lacks.




       

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AZWification on 19 August 2014
RavenXtra said:

Or spell it right, its vgrlz not vgirlz xD

True, because vgirlz is some poker site!



                
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DanneSandin on 19 August 2014
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.



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DanneSandin on 19 August 2014
archer9234 said:
DanneSandin said:
AZWification 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

Samus' "new" outfits first appeared in Zero Mission and Fusion, so I don't see the problem here! :S

Well, the problem actually goes way back. Sexism has always existed (more or less) in gaming. I can understand why Samus had a bathing suit in the NES version; to make it quite apparent that she in fact was a girl. But that kind of thing isn't needed now, and hasn't been for quite a while. What about DOA then? Boob physics? really? C'mon!! Why no dick physics? Because, sexism

The Saints Row games satisfy both sides. You get a Dick size slider.

Indeed it does. Now, I'm not entirely sure if that's a good thing or not, but it's BETTER ;)



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AZWification on 19 August 2014
DanneSandin said:
AZWification said:

Samus' "new" outfits first appeared in Zero Mission and Fusion, so I don't see the problem here! :S

Well, the problem actually goes way back. Sexism has always existed (more or less) in gaming. I can understand why Samus had a bathing suit in the NES version; to make it quite apparent that she in fact was a girl. But that kind of thing isn't needed now, and hasn't been for quite a while. What about DOA then? Boob physics? really? C'mon!! Why no dick physics? Because, sexism

Meh.. This whole Samus incident doesn't seem like such a huge issue to me really, but whatever.. :S



                
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RealGamingExpert on 19 August 2014
DanneSandin said:

Look at my response to him, just a few posts above this one =)

I saw it, but i don't understand the problem here.

Its just an alternative costume you can use, but no one is forcing you to use it.

Games like Lollipop Chainsaw on the other side are much worse and try to cash in on that.

They could do the same for a character like captain falcon, but i doubt anyone wants to see that!



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The_Sony_Girl1 on 19 August 2014
Squeezol said:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/114857/thesonygirl1/#content

We got a girl! I report! We got a girl! Highly suspicious, but still!


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archer9234 on 19 August 2014
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.



maximus22 on 19 August 2014

I'm sure every other user having a cartoon underage girl as their avatar doesn't help.



outlawauron on 19 August 2014
amp316 said:
JayWood2010 said:
amp316 said:
Long story short. It was all because of a joke that Galaki made about PMS when a female (I think that it was Marucha) typed PMs in a thread title. It wasn't an offensive joke at all but she flew off of the handle, told off all of the mods because nothing was done, took off with some of her female friends, and created her own site called VGirlz which ironically doesn't allow men (not that that's sexist or anything).

So basically it's all Galaki's fault.


Not exactly how that went.  She asked for sexist jokes to stop as it isnt funny to the her or others.  The PMs  joke is hardly the only exmple of sexist jokes on this forum. I could easily find other examples which never gets moderated even though as Marucha pointed out, is against the rules.

Beyond that there was males on the site that was invited including me, BananaKing, nintendoPie as well as others.  The site was locked down as she wanted to work out all the kinks before opening it up to the public

And its kind of hard to tell somebody what they should and shouldnt be offended by since you arent that person.  And seeing how she wasnt the only person who disagreed with the mods id hardly say she is wrong for how she felt

But the problem was that she couldn't come up with any other examples when asked.  I remember that thread well actually.  

Now I'm not saying that sexism hasn't, doesn't, or won't ever happen again here, but she wasn't giving any more examples to help her case.

And please...  there was nothing offensive about that joke.  And if she was offended by that then she probably gets offended by things like the color red.

I remember the thread very well as well. :-/

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