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Getting the Girl
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."
If having a slew of "buxom virtual ladies" is wrong then I don't want to be right.
1: "Box" isn't used as a slang term in the USA
or
2: Slashdot is even geekier than I thought...or perhaps less geeky...I'm not sure now...
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
Zoe Flower sounds more like a porn name, to me at least.
A girl who calls herself "Zoe Flower" is going to lecture us on feminism in video gaming.
I'll go back to playing nethack now.
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Oh, Girl... Something we know nothing about. :)
Sweetheart, take a sociology course. Even a basic one. There are structural boundaries for women in the workplace that often limit them to the 'traditional' feminine jobs--nursing, schoolteaching, etc. Glass escalators put men who would like to teach straight into administration; apparently women are not leaders. Glass walls stop women from moving out of customer service jobs, because apparently women have an innate caring side to them. Glass ceilings, of course, do not permit women to enter high management jobs, whereas men are injected into them daily. If it weren't for people like you, what with your arrogant bitching about how women choose to be exploited, feminism wouldn't exist. If there was complete gender equality, you'd be bitching about how blacks choose to be exploited because they choose to live in drug-infested urban areas.
After reading the title i thought the article would actually be useful to us (the stereotypical /. reader). Turns out its about selling video games to girls, laaaaaame.
You know, they say masturbation doesn't really make you go blind, but the lack of decent spelling, punctuation, and perspective in your comment has to make me wonder.
Lay off the wacking for a few hours, junior.
I'm stunned. Stunned that there were enough women at E3 to form a line for the women's room...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
> Do you see any short bald dudes with a big pot
> belly on any of these boxes either? No, it's all
> he-man looking dudes busting at the seams with muscles
Be serious. Why would I want to play a "short bald dude" character? It would be a really boring game since he'd probably have a str of 3 or 4 and a measly 15 hp, giving me hours upon hours of "level grind" until I can get his sorry lazy ass sufficiently trained to take on anything bigger than a rat.
To which I have to say "Do you see any short bald dudes with a big pot belly on any of these boxes either? No, it's all he-man looking dudes busting at the seams with muscles".
Doh!
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
"Some of my best friend/players on line are females.
:)"
Nothing cuter than a girl playing a game seriously.
I'm hoping you realize that online games and MMORPGs have just as many men posing as women as there are actually women playing. Unless you've met her in person, it may be 'Bob' that you're flirting with. Seriously.
Personally, as a hetero male, I found it incredibly amusing to play a lesbian female in a MMORPG. The game had lost it's 'replay value' until I decided to play as a lesbian. Too funny. Sad thing is, I had more girlfriends in the game as a lesbian than I did as a straight male. Too sad.. Let's hope they were actually women.
I'm thinking this post should be anonymous, but, who cares.. it was funny..
Aero
Please stop hurting America -- Jon Stewart
I have a real life. I don't spend $3,000 on hardware and hundreds on games to interact with average people in normal costume. That I get for free. I spend that much on games because I _want_ to escape real life for a while and enjoy a fantasy world where I have the biggest gun and all the women are clones of Jeri Ryan.
That's my target product. Myst you can keep for yourself. Thanks.
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