Critical Miss: Sexism and/or Racism

[hooksashands]

That reminds me, are any of you lady folk single? =P

There sure has been an unapologetic flow of honking from civil rights groups on games that portray minorities and genders in a less than favorable light, but then again these are the same people who just want to push their stories out there into the public light, and this is the only means through which they can accomplish that. So in a weird way, the people they're calling out are spreading awareness of the topic. How thin the line is between enemy and benefactor.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Is it just me, or did the punchline fly right over the head of an alarming amount of people?

 

[OrpheumZero]

Personally, I only take offense if something outright makes a sexist/racist comment. If it is being done as a joke, just let it the frak be, getting bent up over a joke, be it mean or poorly conceived, is just childish no matter what stance you try to take with it. It's like the idiot balloon that popped over RE5, just because "white guy is killing black guys". And everyone ignored the whole fact they were zombies/infected. Of course, that village part was pushing things, but even still the crap that hit fans over that games was just mind numbing.

Then of course you have the ever going arguement of "sexy female characters" in games as being sexist. To some extent, it is sexist to make all potentially likable females in a game sex objects, but unfortunately "sex sells" as the saying goes. It can't really be fought. Of course then you get the foolish arguement that "women don't objectify men", which is bogus. Both sexes are equally guilty of objectifying the other. It may be true that men held more power over women in many cultures in the past, but that hardly excuses the double-standard of "We can act goofy about guys, but make a remark about women and get ready to have your throat slit."

 

[Gunjester]

Agreed. Just. Agreed.