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    Women in Video Games

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles...ate-harassment

    There should be balance in our games, right? I mean.. I wanna stare at the digital backside of a hot male character, too~

    But seriously, I think what concerns me the most out of this article isn't simply the womanizing themes that plague our games-- what *really* concerns me is the insane amount of backlash and threats this poor woman gets just for trying to speak out for her cause. Not even the FBI seem capable of stemming the frightening tide of death threats she receives.
    It's not as if she has the power to completely eliminate all tits and ass and female related game violence from games. Even if she did have that power, I doubt it would change games very much at their core.
    As a fellow female gamer, I really hope that the masses here at Blue Gartr are different. I want to believe there's plenty of male gamers out there willing to understand the issue at hand and be willing to support female gamers with their concerns.
    When it comes to game related harassment, I also hope that there is a strong class of male gamers that will step in during such situations and help put it to an end. After all, these kind of people (who harass and hate) are the ones who really ruin it for us all; male and female gamers alike.
    As far as the feminist issues in games go, I'm all for equality-- equal digital violence, nudity, and degradation for us all~ Bring me female heroes who can fight for themselves and male NPC's who twerk in the buff for my pleasure.
    Now that I've vented...
    I'm curios to know where the people here stand.

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    http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/123...merGate-thread
    http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/111...about-Feminism


    I also think its worth noting that anyone with an opinion ever on the internet has gotten death threats.

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    Anita is a professional victim and GG is about ethics in VG journalism, the anti gg crowd is a bunch of SJWs getting played by trolls, and a coordinated effort by clickbait site writers and industry members who want to protect the quid pro quo that is the status quo.

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    ffs lock this, theres already at least 2 of these threads floating around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abandon View Post
    ffs lock this, theres already at least 2 of these threads floating around.
    Yup, and almost nothing in any of them is interesting or worth reading.

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    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

    The strange part is that Sarkeesian is essentially an academic who has spent the past two years putting together a scholarly criticism of video games as a medium, through a series called “Tropes vs Women in Video Games,” published on her website Feminist Frequency.
    This is what feminism considers a "scholarly criticism". If she's a scholar, so are the people on youtube who utterly dismantled her shitty arguments.

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    Can this shit please stop? I'm getting so sick of seeing it everywhere in everything.

    I might write a news article about bow dragon ball z is an unfair expectation of the male form and is making it harder for men who aren't built like gods to be taken seriously in the work place

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    your gona have to be more more specific everyone in poopdeck has crohns

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    Yeah, no. Locking this train wreck right the fuck now. Two threads of retardation is enough.

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    Slurpee please take your original post and put it in one of the two aforementioned threads that Charismatic linked.

    Or if you would like me to PM me and let me know which one and I'll merge the threads.

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