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Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly?

Posted by simoniker on Monday April 12, 2004 @07:47PM from the maxim-ization-of-society dept.

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."

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Only in games? by aphex2000 · 2004-04-12 20:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Watch "24" for christ's sake!
Women are constantly raped, captured, beaten, crying, doing stupid things, acting crazy & naive...
And if they don't they are pure evil without feelings.
It can't get any worse than that!
Re:No it's not by Troed · 2004-04-13 02:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That person needs to play Metroid Zero Mission.

(Everyone should btw, it's THAT good. Play it on a GC and GB Player on your big screen television instead of using that horrible GBA-thingie though ;)

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it's in my head
Re:Invading Iraq is just a rich person's video gam by BTWR · 2004-04-13 04:36 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"A vote for Bush is a vote for violence" is as stupid a leftist quote as "A vote for Kerry is a vote of support for Terrorists" is for stupid right-wing quotes...