RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accesories.
03-31-2012, 05:54 AM
Personally, what I find most offensive is how rarely video games/comic books/whathaveyou even give enough of a shit to buck the system. And when they do it just ends up getting executive ordered to sexytimes in the stupid universe reboot nobody asked for.
( Why yes I am referring ESPECIALLY TO ONE COMPANY IN PARTICULAR WHO IS PROBABLY OLD NEWS BY NOW BUT WHO I HAVE NOT LET GO DUE TO THEIR CLUMSY ATTEMPTS AT SEXUALIZING CHARACTERS WHICH, IN ADDITION TO BEING HORRIBLY SEXIST, BACKFIRED ENTIRELY IN MY OPINION. But I digress. )
I guess there's this attitude that these things won't sell if all the women aren't super sexy, which... honestly, I think is offensive to men and women. Women for the obvious reasons, and men because apparently we can only buy something if we have a boner while looking at it? PROTIP GAME AND COMIC COMPANIES: I know that the nerds I am familiar with buy things because they like, I don't know, the story and in video games' case the gameplay! I am pretty sure that if we wanted porn we would just straight-up get porn! This is a dumb attitude and it has been pointed out many times!
The sad thing is I'm not breaking any new ground here. I've seen this opinion expressed many, many times and yet apparently nobody gives enough of a shit to try not doing it.
( Why yes I am referring ESPECIALLY TO ONE COMPANY IN PARTICULAR WHO IS PROBABLY OLD NEWS BY NOW BUT WHO I HAVE NOT LET GO DUE TO THEIR CLUMSY ATTEMPTS AT SEXUALIZING CHARACTERS WHICH, IN ADDITION TO BEING HORRIBLY SEXIST, BACKFIRED ENTIRELY IN MY OPINION. But I digress. )
I guess there's this attitude that these things won't sell if all the women aren't super sexy, which... honestly, I think is offensive to men and women. Women for the obvious reasons, and men because apparently we can only buy something if we have a boner while looking at it? PROTIP GAME AND COMIC COMPANIES: I know that the nerds I am familiar with buy things because they like, I don't know, the story and in video games' case the gameplay! I am pretty sure that if we wanted porn we would just straight-up get porn! This is a dumb attitude and it has been pointed out many times!
The sad thing is I'm not breaking any new ground here. I've seen this opinion expressed many, many times and yet apparently nobody gives enough of a shit to try not doing it.