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Getting the Girl

Posted by Zonk on from the pink-boxes-not-needed dept.

1up.com has a great article up entitled Getting The Girl. Zoe Flower discusses female gaming stereotypes, the role of women in gaming, and the mythical "girl formula" for gaming success. From the article: "Lara Croft continues to personify an ongoing culture clash over gender, sexuality, empowerment, and objectification. It was while standing in my first-ever ladies' room line at E3 2004 as I pondered the Playboy bunnies, the return of Leisure Suit Larry, and the slew of buxom virtual ladies headlining each booth that I questioned whether the industry had evolved at all."

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  1. Slurs by LPetrazickis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, stratjakt, you are being taken to a concentration camp is an airless cattle car. If you suffocate or starve to death en route, so much the better.

    If you are sickly when you get there, you will be carted off to the mass showers to be gassed immediately. Otherwise, you will be put to work digging mass graves and dragging bodies to the incinirators.

    Insulting your opponents is not a legitimate debate tactic. Likening them to the Third Reich makes you look even more foolish.

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  2. Re:Sheesh by Chris+Burke · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Give the anti-feminazi-kneejerk shit a rest for a while and RTFA.

    Also, the problem with Lara Croft wasn't much of a problem until Tomb Raider 2 which touted the increased polygon count of her chest as a selling point.

    By the way, play something other than an FPS. Female are characters are stereotyped much more in all genres.

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  3. Re:Target Audience by EvilAlien · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Please step away from the crackpipe... Gordon Freeman was a scrawny physicist, not a brawny asskicker. He had to put on an HEV suit just to scrap through the kind of hazards that Duke Nukem would have done in a torn tank top, the guy from Far Cry would have battled through in a hawaiian shirt, and Lara Croft would have... mmmmm Lara Croft... Boobies...

    Which brings to mind the real question left unanswered (perhaps since I don't care to RTFA)... is Zoe Flowers hot? Millions of gamers want to know. A good portion of the girlgamers I know want to know too. Plz advise & send pics... thnx.

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