Re: A gamer blog complaining about sexism.

(This is a response)

Re: Skimpy female armour in MMO's.

Too long didn’t read all of it.
As a woman with raving bi- tendencies “more bewbs” is actually awesome from a lesbian-esque perspective. Why the assumption that skimpy women is designed only for men? Now that is what I call sexist! And actually tastes a bit of LGBT erasure style homophobia too.

Also incase you have never heard of Sharia Law, a half naked woman is actually pretty Liberated.

You should get the choice for yourself, if you don’t like skimpy don’t choose skimpy, choose a medium armour class and change the physique to a less slim smaller boobed version if that is what you want. And as you level up you can choose different style armour or apply non-revealing armour skins.
But if another player chooses a skimpy outfit an runs past you and you get offended that’s just too bad. Put on your big girl panties and suck it up like an adult. Or you can log out and never play again.
It’s not that the game is deliberately sexist, it is just incidentally sexist, and yes there is a difference.
Basically it’s only sexist because you think it is.

For example IMO they should have made the face styles of GW1 available for human females and not made their faces in such a “sweet”-sixteen in a giving-the-teacher-a-blowie kinda way.
But atleast the female characters will never have exposed nipples (like the male warrior in a certain armour set).

1. Charr females have a lore history linked to gender equality.
2. The sexist Sons of Svanir are not put upon a pedestal but are cast as the badguys.
3. Thackery (the main “hero” npc for human characters) is cast as a Pussy-whipped servant to the queen (no king btw).
4. The gameplay is so all inclusive and "equal" (out of touch with reality) it even doesn't calculate the lack of musculature of female characters as minus power or inability to weild large weapons, it allows supermodel looking women to have the same physical strength as a bodybuilder. Lucky girls.

As a woman the story line and gameplay leaves the girl gamer feeling like she won the rights to sit on the game developers faces, queef in the face of physical reality. AND my feminista sista if you role the Warrior for example (how convenient "warrior women") they even give you a Hammer you can smash the "evil patriarchy" of game makers with.

And this is apparently sexist to women? Yeah right!

And even if it is? Let's not forget these "sexist" NPCs are the bad guys. You are basically whining that a BAD GUY has an unpleasant characteristic, well duh?!
You wouldn't want to kick their ass if they were simply "poor misunderstood souls".

" 101 Dalmatians (1996)

00:05:45 lt's not hatred that's important. lt's a desire to annihilate."

Re: the Anti-pink posse

What is with the anti-pink brigade lately? I'm no fan of pink personally but to attack a colour is just a scapegoat for people who refuse to take responsibility for their own failings.

My mother has achieved things with transit vans, motor grease and toolboxes that are deserving of an engineering degree. She worked all through my childhood in the textiles industry and yet she is the one who wears pink and pastels and rolls her eyes every time she sees me wearing anything khaki or otherwise camo coloured. But for all the green and grunge in the world of the two of us I'm still the fashion diva, and stay at home mother, as I chose to be.

The truth is colour has jack to do with gender roles and stereotypes, you like what you like, and you do what you want do.
Colour (despite what some will claim) has nothing to do with function.

There is no use blaming a colour for brainwashing you into a stereotype, when the truth is you haven't achieved what you want because you have a flocking attitude. Also for this reason I can see no reason why pink would turn a male child gay either (not that that would be the worst thing, even if you weren't OK with it.).

Eric Spain:

Wow, just wow. Awesome post! This has definitely got me thinking. My main thought is this:
This whole mess just smacks of hidden sexism. At face value, it looks like it's just not okay to be a girl, unless you are a girl. Women have come a long way, but has it just pushed down these misconceptions lower to where it's not as visible. Now it seems that "equality" means that girls can be boys too and do boy things, because boys are better. Wait what??!? I thought equality meant equal, in both directions.
I might just be stating what everyone already thinks is obvious, but I really hadn't noticed it before, and the more I look, the more I see it everywhere. Not just media, but in conversations people have, and the way they act towards each other. People might not be sexist, but their expectations and notions are.
This has made me annoyed now. It very much seems less "Men and Women are equal." and much much more "Women can be Men too." and that's definitely not the message I want in the world.

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(In reply to pinkstinks.org.uk/cgblog/20/25/What-about-boys-Part-2.html)

I found a picture of my
mother as a child! :P

I wont be having many pink kids toys in the house, mostly because I think it's an eyesore in large or frequent doses, but should my son or daughter want one of their own accord I will grant them some pink in moderation. Any girl that wants enough to play with a bow and arrow and shoot her siblings one moment then pretend to be the incredible Hulk the next will do so, and with no need or want of approval. I certainly didn't, and like myself I don't expect my daughter to need or seek the approval of either adult or peer alike.