Zenn3k said:
Lest we forget that she is terribly under-informed on the topic of gaming and shouldn't be talking about it in the first place. The ***** doesn't even know WHO Samus is, and wants to talk about women in gaming. Fuck off Anita.
Does that mean if I don't know who Ellen Ripley is, I shouldn't be talking about women in movies?
If I don't know who Jane Austen is, should I not be talking about female authors?
If I don't know who Georgia O'Keeffe is, should I not be talking about female artists?
This might be a loaded question, but how is knowledge of who Samus is relevant to the greater topic of the portrayal of females in gaming? Better yet, considering the latest
Metroid outing, it might be better that Anita
doesn't know who Samus is, because
Other M is one of the most embarrassing, patronizing, insulting things I've ever seen in the entire video game medium.
OT: To be honest, I haven't actually watched her videos. They're lengthy, supposedly rather dry, and she apparently spends more time simply pointing out the issues than trying to offer suggestions on how to change them for the better. I have nothing against her, and all of the people getting angry about her are just giving her a louder and louder voice to sway the industry with.
Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with having games like
Mario,
Dragon's Crown,
The Witcher, or even
Gears of War; So long as they aren't the overwhelming majority, which currently they tend to be. I don't believe there's a problem with having strong, nuanced, deep stories with complex characters
and stereotypical "Bowser is holding the Princess hostage!" stories. Unfortunately, apart from being brought about by sheer laziness on the writers' parts, I don't know why these tropes show up as often as they do and so I don't know what we can really do to change it.