Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly?

Thanks to GameSpot for its 'GameSpotting' editorial discussing whether men can be trusted to portray women fairly in videogames. The author references Metroid ("I don't appreciate that Samus being a woman is a punch line"), and Ico ("Yorda... [is] this supposedly sympathetic female character in a video game that can do absolutely nothing for herself and is constantly in danger of being kidnapped"), and ends by leveling the charge: "I think men are inherently incapable of doing an adequate job of properly presenting female characters in games."

Comments

I think someone found a soap box to stand on...

[Anonymous Coward]

...and a feminist he wants to lay.

Because oh so many people rush through Metroid to see Samus in a swimsuit..... that's what internet porn is for.

Re:No it's not

[Metal_Demon]

I expected to have to post something like that myself, but instead I'll just say...I concur.

Point... Counterpoint

[aminorex]

> "I think men are inherently incapable of doing an
> adequate job of properly presenting female
> characters in games."

For some value of "proper", yes. The extant body
of work is sufficient evidence of this. However,
your notion of propriety may be little more than a
political power play.

But then, women are inherently incapable of doing
an adequate job of properly presenting a video
game, period, as can also be reasonably concluded
by looking at the names in the credits on all the
video games since Pong first brightened an
oscilloscope.