I dont consider myself a "geek", i like video games, know a lot about them, play them a shit load but i'd assume that someone calling themselves a geek would assume i'd know about stuff like comics and table top games and all that noise for me to be a geek. I'm a gamer, thats what i consider myself as, "hardcore gamer".
I cant really comment on the geek thing, but feminism in gaming, it really gets me, it doesnt sit well with me. Its a me-too, have our cake and eat it too attitude from a minority who want to impose their agendas on the majority. They never use or have facts, they dont take into account context like market shares, the fact the majority of people who play games with main characters are male, so male main characters are there so that players can relate to them. They use long debunked logic, like the fact sexism in games will cause sexism in real life. And you'll get people who will say "yep, thats true! Gotta stomp out these games!", but when it was fucking Jack Thompson several years ago putting practically that very same point forward, he was a crack pot with no evidence, in fact the evidence went against him.
What really pisses me off though is that they're suckers ripe for the picking, these gamer feminists and white knights have been taken for a ride. You want to talk about a poser, lets talk Anita Sarkeesian she is a proven con-artist at this point, caught lying and stealing footage, she didnt spend that money she was given on anything and the worst part is that her points have been easily picked apart, her videos are full of fallacies and double standards. She's made a living off of being a damsel in distress, she has literally become and uses to her advantage the trope she originally said she wanted to call out by going to paid speaking engagements and putting on show all of these horrible trolls that have harassed her, she even uses it as an excuse to never have to respond to any criticism because they're all just haters. Just angry men want to keep their "all-boys club". Yet people will still defend her.
The fact is if women want better representation in games, they better start speaking with their wallets and buying games that have female leads and options, rather then sticking to Farmville, Angry Birds and Whatever Saga. CoD Ghosts didnt become the best selling CoD despite being the first to offer female character options. You know, unlike what some people will have you believe when it comes to an actual example, those female characters in Ghosts didnt suddenly unlock the game to the female population in the countries its sold in (and there are more women in most of the big seller countries). You also need to respect artist vision, if a game developer wants a male main character, you cant moan and make him change that. Much like you shouldnt be able to ask a painter to change what he's painting. If you believe games are art, then their content isnt open to vote.
