Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:15AM from the including-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes A government-funded agency in Sweden is considering creating special labels for video games based on whether or not the games' portrayals of women are sexist. From the article: "Avoiding sexism and gender stereotypes in video games produced in Sweden will become a key goal for the association, which has been given a 272,000 kronor ($36,672) grant by Sweden's government-funded innovation agency, Vinnova. Inspired by the Bechdel test, which looks at whether fictional films or books feature at least two women talking about a topic other than men, Dataspelsbranchen will work with several game developers to analyze how Swedish video games portray female characters and gender issues.

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Re: Sexism = Sexy these days by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-17 03:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe that's all you can talk about, but those of us who thought it was an issue stopped giving a shit after he apologised.
Maybe you should give it a try?
Re:Whoa whoa whoa by 0xdeadbeef · 2014-11-17 03:45 · Score: 0, Troll

It would be disingenuous to suggest that sexism does not primarily impact women negatively.
It would be disingenuous to suggest that all the sexism in all the video game ever made impacts women more negatively than the closing of a single abortion clinic where one is needed.
SJWs need to get the fuck over themselves.