It has missions that effect your rating rather than relying on piracy and shooting the PoPo.

I think *think*, that the point I tried to make, was that with so many horrible things being done in gaming against equality (gender or race or whatever), this is imo the wrong target to get mad at.
The qoute was taken very much out of context (at least that was how I read his tweets after the fact), and it was – like I said – a personal anectdote.

Having played the siren for something like 100 hours in borderlands 1, I feel very confident in saying that this is not the gaming series you are looking to attack. They actually managed to portray a female PC as just as messed up as the male ones, and for the first time in a very very long time of gaming, she was neither “I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR” nor a “imma just as masculine as you men are *snort-spit*”. But a genuine believeable (as anything in that game) character.

So taking a twisted qoute from one interview, and talking about boycutting the woman-hating gearbox (not you, I know, but i’ve read that some many other places…) is just saddening to me.

Something like BFF maybe (Like I said above, I always associate that phrase with Paris Hilton, it IS girly.) And The Guardian article is I think at least as critical of the Eurogamer interviewer as it is of the developer. I found it quite objective.

As far as bandwagons go, I often comment on gaming news if I think I have something to add. But the main reason I decided to write this was after reading an article in The Escapist which basically says ‘we’ should be past the point of getting offended about casual sexism and should instead try to ‘engage with developers.’ I get confused with how exactly I personally am supposed to engage with the individual developer and why it’s somehow wrong to state politely how their comments make me feel, so hence … post. I’m also going to quote from the same article:

I was reminded of the way the situation was handled when David Jaffe made a sexist comment back in February during a GameTrailers interview from an event in San Francisco:

“…if you have a lady friend and she really wants to know the best game ever, and she will give you a fucking blowjob, if you play this game. If you let her win Twisted Metal split screen, she will suck your dick.”

The article writer later describes that quote as ” an unfortunately-phrased quip about blowjobs” — to me, describing female gamers with the expectation that they will offer sexual favours if you ‘let her win’ goes WAY beyond ‘unfortunately phrased quip’. It is fucking outrageous. So I’m thinking the article writer doesn’t really give a shit about sexism and that’s one of the reasons I want to keep writing about it. Ultimately, there are forces in the gaming industry and media who would honestly prefer if we don’t say when we are upset.

They can go fuck themselves.

(Yeah, in some ways that upsets me more than the sexism )

The fact that this guy used the term in a presentation…it doesn’t matter to me that he’s taking a term used from another game by the gaming community and that he points out the fact that he lacks a better term. He still used it. And as Spinks quoted from one of the articles addressing this issue, there’s a distinct possibility that the term was thrown around during brainstorming sessions, meaning this kind of sexism ISN’T merely relegated to word-vomit press guys, but is coming from inside the organization.

I don’t know how you can call Spinks’ post, or the comments above ours, “jumping on bandwagons” when it’s all women relating their experiences in the gaming community. We’re all pissed. And contrary to what the guy says in that video, feminists ARE responding to this controversy. Spinks just did.

We’re not jumping on a bandwagon of criticism. It’s not just blogging about something controversial for the sake of doing so. The male authors that Spinks quoted in her blog are every bit as feminist as the women commenting here. Remember, you don’t have to be a woman to be a feminist. So the fellow in the video you linked who implied that there is no actual feminist response to this controversy, merely feminist sentiment being drawn up by regular folks? Yeah, he’s wrong.

I have a hard time taking his video seriously though, considering that he is obviously an anti-feminist or MRA who has made videos attacking Anita Sarkeesian immediately after the Kickstarter controversy and deriding the Jennifer Hepler controversy as “fake outrage.” I mean, I will watch them and listen to what he has to say, but it seems like he’s already coming from a place of closed-mindedness.

…Why didn’t anyone yell at mario for the wii, when it had a mode everyone referred to as girlfriend mode? (for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvu2H338VQ&feature=plcp)

I had honestly expected more than a jumping on bandwagons here.

And the fact that this story made the Guardian (imo) has more to do about old media wanting to make games look bad, because that story sells: games are sexist, rascist, fascist violent ect ect

This part of your comment really bothers me:

” I’ve met a few of them in real life, and they all cheerfully tell me they play WoW and they love playing a healer. Ditto on blogs.”

So a lot of women prefer a role that involves fine detail, rapid decision making and multi-tasking over a role that involves mindlessly hitting the same sequence of buttons over and over again. How exactly does that make us not “highly aggressive, hardcore”?

Maybe healing isn’t as in-your-face as playing FPS games, or hack-n-slash, but healers are every bit as disciplined, competitive and driven as other types of players. Yeah, we have the added complexity of necessary cooperation, but trust me, healers are just as cutthroat as everyone else.

The fact is, we join most of our games at the same time. Since I have more free time than he does, I typically become more skilled at the game faster and am “the better one.” Most nights I’M the one who pressures him to play — or play one more before bed, please! — instead of the other way around.

But since I’m the girlfriend of a gamer who also plays games, I must be some noob who needs “girlfriend mode” to become interested in a particular game.

What bullshit.

Our guildies have repeatedly marveled at never having seen a tank couple before [usually dps/dps or tank/healer].

Ironically when I started tanking, our previous GM in our previous guild tried to push me out of it because in his estimation, women should not be allowed to tank.

I have tried some fps games and while I don’t enjoy them as much, with practice I can do alright.

Random anecdotes are random.