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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."
So you're saying it's okay to objectify women if we also objectify men?
Objectify, or worship?
I consider it telling that you mostly just hear females complaining about the sexism in having characters like Lara Croft.
To what do you attribute that?
A real sense of having men treat them as objects...
Or a DESIRE to have men behave toward them the same way they do toward Lara?
The "objectification" and "sexist" argument annoys me greatly. This doesn't involve inequality, it involves pure, simple jealousy. Nothing more than the basic "Why does my boyfriend like a group of pixels more than he likes me?" But if you get to that question, you've already made a HUGE (and erroneous) leap to conclude that he does like the pixels more than you.
She's very androgynous. When I first saw her I thought she'd been created by a gay man yearning to turn her into a teenage boy.
I think she appeals to boys who're terrified of women, and would prefer their female attributes (hips and breasts) weren't too prominent. And, of course, the closet fudgepackers, of which there seems to be quite a few in the geek crowd.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Next you'll be saying we don't know how to code, and we're merely vessels for the opposite gender to dump sperm in.
Not merely just vessels for the opposite gender to dump sperm in, but also kitchen operators, baby raisers, and occasionally trophies that are adorned in elaborate and uncomfortable dress to be paraded about in public.