I need feminism because the patriarchy wants to shut down any venue by which strong women express the damaging material they peddle as entertainment.
She’ll get the attention anyway and this thread is just a drop in the sea.
In any case saving some chick is a perfect simple motivation you can transfer to the player in 5 seconds. If you were a chick trying to save her man or a Mexican trying to save his donkey then the effect simply would not be the same. It would just look stupid.
She herself couldn’t care less about videogames because she only plays them to inspect a short cutscene within them. The “story” of videogame is the adventure you experience as you play, not the 5 second cutscene that sets it off.
I wanted to post this earlier. People still get up in arms over the violence-video games controversy, but there’s already a base of counter-arguments to shut down most of the talking points you could make on the subject. Like when David Jaffe shut down somebody on CNN digging up the violence-video games argument after the Connecticut shooting. In the 90s it was a shocking accusation that caught the gaming industry off-guard. Of course it’s still a heavily debated subject, but you can’t make a completely reckless indictment like “video games are virtual reality death simulators training children to be serial killers, prove me wrong,” ANYMORE, without destroying your credibility.
Feminist trolling bullshit on nerd subjects is free right now because not enough people made a great counter-argument against it. That’s why it needs the exposure and discussion that ‘violent video games’ had a couple decades ago. If that makes sense.
I’m not sure you really can. The argument about violence in video games had a falsifiable premise. Feminism in video games deals a lot with perceptions towards characters which is subjective, and since 99% of the time its dudes arguing in favor of the status quo, they are fighting from the low ground.
In either case, you characterize it as trolling, and generally the best defense against trolls is to not engage them. What is the worst that could happen if no one challenged this chick?
Ignoring trolls won’t work in this case, because video games and other male-dominated hobbies haven’t really been attacked with feminist doctrines before… not to this degree anyway. Once the argument has been normalized, then you can ignore it, and then videos like this would just get crickets, instead of multiple articles and threads across different gaming sites.
I know it’s a problem that can’t be ignored, when the website for an indie game I’ve been keeping an eye on (AirMech-- a RTS game featuring nothing but ROBOTS and SHIPS and other gender-neutral archetypes) had to address this exact video.
vagina…the original jedi mindtrick
No, you don’t really need a vagina or lady lumps or even a picture anymore, you just have to identify with the “female gender” and bang you got a legion of Chris Crocker fuckboys on your team.
So we have to pay for womens dinners and be the ones to pop the question, etc, AND save their poor asses in video games, and the third one is sexist toward women? ahh, logic.
I’m not going to watch the videos, but all ‘video games are sexist’ people make the same arguments. We are not sexist, we are not saying you are lesser. Most games with peach and zelda are older/references to older games, where games were primarily only played by guys. And before any feminists say anything about skullgirls, guys like titties. Just like how she probably thinks robert pattison is sexy, guys have opinions too. 
I saw an interesting argument today coming from a woman saying that although women shouldn’t be regarded solely as the damsel in distress, there is nothing wrong with them being portrayed that way. I believe her point was that yes we need more Mulans but that doesn’t make Cinderella evil.
Just food for thought I guess.
Man, so people actually fund her kickstarter, so she can bitch and moan about how unfair and sexist the video game industry is.
I bet you she will still complain if the video game industry put more girl in a protagonist role. She be complaining about how game developers is making the girl protagonist too sexy or too violent.
She has. Her bayonetta review was so lulzy. A positive point she thought of the game was how bayonetta was a single mother, which is silly.
I mean, not saying that being a single mother is a bad thing (it happens) but I remember hearing somewhere kids without a father figure aren’t well educated in life.
she needs dick
I should start a Kickstarter, it seems even the shittiest of games can rack up over a million dollars towards their dev cost. Except the money wouldn’t be used to develop a game in my case…
Abid goes HAM: Kickstarter. All money will go towards me doing a bunch of random-ass shit with the money I acquire, and all of it would be filmed. Imagine Jackass but even more obscene and offensive. It’d be great. First thing I’d do is pay some butch chick to beat the fuck out of the chick in the OP, then I’d just go from there!
Actually nothing, because males who don’t give a shit are still the target crowd for videogames, and all the women who support her won’t do anything more than posting “you go girl!!!”
It’s not like anyone is gonna go and actually develop a videogame where a chick saves a dude. First, it requires actual work instead of just talking and bitching all day. Second, who is going to buy it exactly? Not the women who don’t even like playing videogames that’s for sure.
I asked my girlfriend what she thought about this video and she thinks Anita whatever-her-second-name-is is full of shit.
You guys take women way to seriously.
For all the obvious flaws in her project that have been pointed out (tvtropes, thinking too deeply about a simple topic, getting 150k for this bulshit, etc) all of you here seem to ignore or not be aware that she actually has a point. Personally I don’t give a fuck if a game’s protagonist is male or female as long as it’s fun but girls who want to play a game as one should have more options besides Metroid and Tomb Raider.
Also, I’d hit it.
Still a terrible thread I see.
Nope to all three.
also how is any of that “ripping away power from women” if anything it’s empowering them by showing that women can get men to do anything.