You sure you don't just want to stop right there? 'cause all you're doing is ringing the same bell that been rung by millions of ignorant sheeple before you. Look at this differently, you're a business owner, and your biggest and bestest person in sales/marketing/etc. finds out she's pregnant, but you've got the largest merger/client/etc. you'll ever have coming in soon, so you've got roughly six months until you lose her for another six to eighteen months, depending on unions, state, drive, and all the wonderful things that go into that time. Now you can't just drop her from this buy or whatever because she's the only one that can run with this to the end with you coming out as far up as you can. But this job is going to take longer than the six months you've got her for, so you have to get someone to cover the job where she takes off and then you get left in the wind. You still have to pay her a certain amount, which is fine, except for that little thing called a budget, and according to federal regulations, you can't drop her from the roster without the risk of being sued for the ownership of your company or whatever, but you still have to let some people go to pay for that one person to get what they're "entitled to", so you drop three guys with kids and tuition and all that to pay for her, because you let the older guys take early retirement a year before to keep those three guys you just let go on at the company.Dr. Witticism said:Really? When did they stop paying women less than men for the same work? Did that end today? Because last I checked, it was still the case. Just because things have improved doesn't mean the issue of oppression is over and done with. It's a mistake to simply brush it off as "soooo yesterday."Thyunda said:Ahem. No. Drop the female oppression crap, it's gone. That stuff ended twenty years ago. And that's pushing it. Now we just have the after effects of the female oppression. And since fictional characters are not people, and are in fact visual metaphors, a female protagonist carries undertones that a developer may not want their game to be about.Dr. Witticism said:Well of course most video game stars are white males. We live in a female-oppressive patriarchy where men are considered more powerful, more interesting, and more deserving of exaltation. Until we fix what is truly wrong with how our society approaches gender, we shouldn't expect any less.
Basically what I'm saying is you're only seeing half the picture, or a quarter or eighth, besides, if you're above the age of six and live anywhere you can get internet, which you obviously can, the world is GRAY, not black and white as we assume it is up until that point, there's always another angle to look at this kind of stuff.