Ha! Have to come back to this thread for this : Of course some thick douchebags might go apeshit, but besides these, how can you be so sure ? (plus, I'm sure that the frat douchebags would love to play a game with a lead lesbian character haha :D ) Plus ... there are countless games where the sexual orientation of the main…
Yes, but male tropes are considerably more common. Last year saw BulletStorm (which ironically has a strong female leading character surrounded by some of the worst male characters we've seen since Gears of War) and Duke Nukem, amongst other examples. Racial stereotypes are far more of a problem than female tropes in…
What I think is important to understand, though, and I think Sarkeesian is pretty clear on that in the end, is that an in-universe justification isn't a justification. Some creator still decided that the person in distress had to be a woman. Creators all over do so repeatedly. The woman in The Darkness isn't Jackie's…
Now you see this is one of the attitudes I don't understand, and I'm fully willing to admit it is probably because I am a male. While I'm in full agreement that games as a whole do rarely genuinely show realistic female characters, I feel like every game and male that enjoys it gets tarred with the same brush. These days…
I could not sleep for an hour after my last post because this issue was still rattling in my head. Of course it's not overly righteous and I was not using that word to debase the argument, I know the ladies side of this discussion are completely sincere. I realised after my last post what you said before you said it, that…