Of course, but I personally think there's a time and place for it, and it being brought up on every big game release and the like just makes me all jaded. I recognize the issues in equal-opportunity employment, and, like that hurricane thread I made in OT that shows that female names seem to simply be taken less seriously than male ones, to say nothing of the more ugly social issues.Jux said:
I simply can't see the "pervasive sexism in the industry" as a remotely on the level of that. I like playing female protagonists, I want more variety in my games when it comes to characters and narrative devices, but I simply don't see it on the same level as the aforementioned issues. Plus, it might be my cynicism speaking here, mind, but I so often get the feeling people are just bringing these things up for brownie points.
Then again, this only applies to the internet branch. I see a lot of people, myself included, pushing things in the right directions offline. It does annoy me that the internet version doesn't seem to care much about what people do offline...but online, you know...it's my escapism thing, you know, the place I go to get away from the stuff I deal with offline :/
Yeah, I suppose it might be. Basically saying that if you engage in something excessively, you'll start hating it even if you used to enjoy it, but that's the wording we use over here.
