Sexual Objectification of Women in Video Games

[The Nexerus]

idlehands said
Japan's culture is pretty fucked up towards women. I agree though, with KB, what's more irking is not costumes but personalities when it comes to lead characters. Making formally strong females into weak ones is the most insulting. Whatever the excuse they use to justify it.

They're not CHANGING her character, it's before...

ugh

[Lady Squee]

This is a lot of things to go off of.

Would any of you guys mind if I quote you?

[Salroka]

The Nexerus said
The western world.

[The Imagination]

You mean to tell me not every girl in Japan is born with FF bra sizes?!

[The Nexerus]

Lady Squee said
This is a lot of things to go off of.Would any of you guys mind if I quote you?

Of course not, it's time my brilliance be spoken to a wider audience.

[Lady Squee]

Beta said

I have asked you to stop, Beta, and I am asking you again in public. Please have enough respect to stop spamming my thread.

[idlehands]

It is. I don't care if they say 'Oh it's a reboot, blah, blah' They show her getting hurt, getting nearly raped and weeping over kills. It's Lara Fucking Croft, damnit. I don't care to play her through puberty. I want to play the badass.

[The Nexerus]

Beta said
some stupid fucking anime video

Better question: why did you ever come here in the first place?

[Awson]

Lady Squee said
This is a lot of things to go off of.Would any of you guys mind if I quote you?

Only if you give us fake-er names.

[Kill Bones]

Lady Squee said
This is a lot of things to go off of.Would any of you guys mind if I quote you?

But what if you piss off a feminist and they try to hunt me down

[Lady Squee]

Kill Bones said
But what if you piss off a feminist and they try to hunt me down

I'll give them your address.

[The Nexerus]

idlehands said
It is. I don't care if they say 'Oh it's a reboot, blah, blah' They show her getting hurt, getting nearly raped and weeping over kills. It's Lara Fucking Croft, damnit. I don't care to play her through puberty. I want to play the badass.

I've never played the game or even seen a screenshot of it, but you have to be monumentally stupid to believe...

Look, let me put it to you in the simplest way humanly possible. Who's the most badass character in any movie or game, ever? Only rule is that they have to be human.

[Smiral]

ITT:

[The Imagination]

I'm pretty sure this new Lara Croft game might appeal to some gore porn freaks.

[Awson]

The Imagination said
You mean to tell me not every girl in Japan is born with FF bra sizes?!

If "FF" means failure and failure, then yes they are.

,,,

Not the time for these jokes, Awson. Not the time for these jokes.

[idlehands]

Nex said I've never played the game or even seen a screenshot of it, but you have to be monumentally stupid to believe...

Look, let me put it to you in the simplest way humanly possible. Who's the most badass character in any movie or game, ever? Only rule is that they have to be human.

Like I pointed out before, do you think they'd ever make a game where Solid Snake or some other grizzled action hero was a wide eyed private? No, because no one wants to play a noob who will throw up when he kills someone or cry when he's scared.

[Kill Bones]

Yeah Raiden was bad enough to play as in MGS2

COLONEL

WE'VE MANAGED TO AVOID DROWNING

[aza]

Lady Squee said
I'll give them your address.

I'll be the feminist

Time to kill :)

[The Nexerus]

idlehands said
Like I pointed out before, do you think they'd ever make a game where Solid Snake or some other grizzled action hero was a wide eyed private? No, because no one wants to play a noob who will throw up when he kills someone or cry when he's scared.

THEN THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. THE FACT THAT IT'S NOT ENTERTAINING AND NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY THE BADASS BEFORE THEY BECAME THE BADASS. THE FACT THAT YOUR PRECIOUS LAURA CROFT, WHICH YOU HAVE MADE OUT TO BE A SYMBOL FOR FEMININE EMPOWERMENT, IS NOT PORTRAYED AS A BADASS IN THAT GAME IS COMPLETELY FUCKING IRRELEVANT TO SEXUALIZATION IN VIDEO GAMES.

[Awson]

Am I alone in thinking that Smiral posting three times with not even as much as a coherent joke is just as irrelevant and useless as Beta?