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Women on Sex and Videogames

Posted by Zonk on from the larry-wasn't-very-good dept.

KillerBetties.com continues to produce interesting female oriented gaming commentary. Their latest piece is entitled Sex and Videogames, with several female gamers commenting on the likes of Leisure Suit Larry, the Anarchy Online 'Play Me' ads, and the breast size of electronic actors. From the article:"Do you think the shift towards breeding game designers in college with specialized degrees is going to detract from the casual-gaming young female? Companies so intent on hiring people with only complete devotion to videogames... I didn't know I wanted to make games until my last year of college."

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  1. Young AND a girl by JNighthawk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This poor child has to face both stereotypes.

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  2. Boobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Women constantly complain about boobs in games, but look at the cover of women's magazines: boobs. They clearly like looking at boobs too.

    1. Re:Boobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Women in videogames are pretty much 100% fantasy. Waists so thin they can wear a wedding ring as a belt, breasts so huge that no material existing today could truly contain their gravity, and of course, so much jiggle that any real woman would be unable to maintain her balance. Oh yeah, and no depth. They just kill things, or look pretty (or both).

      Yes, because MEN in videogames are so realistic! It's not like they have stupidly large muscles or anything, is it? It's not like the veins are basically bursting free of their limbs at all, right? And hey, the men in videogames have so much depth! It's not like they just kill things, right?

      Videogame characters are caricatures. Female, male, it makes no difference. The attempt to paint it as some sort of anti-female crusade is just baseless politics. Ignore it.