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3. Feminism in gaming
I see it more and more and its abhorent. Most of the time the feminist bloggers are going to cancel and censor any cirticism they recieve, even the legit one, so its very hard to combat it. When you point it out they play the victim card and say that they're a woman and you're picking on them because they're a woman.
Here is a good piece of advice, don't read them, ever! Gives them traffic and keeps them relevant. I think feminism or just equal right between sexes is a thing we should develop through time and discussion, blogs of extremist and extreme moves do not help that.
Most people are now complaining that ubisoft doesnt have a female in Assassin creed. This is just retarded. Imagine if people would go to Mark Twain asking him to add more female characters, or people going to Tolkien and saying they wanted a female lead for lord of the rings.
Games are stories made by the devs, if they feel like adding a female character then they should, if not then they shouldn't. Its their story.
Not to mention that a female would hardly fit in Assassin Creed.
Not only females were not warriors in that age. But most of them were forced to wear dresses because the bible forbit women to wear mans clothing.
It would be ridiculous to see a woman in a dress climb on top of buildings or be booed in the crowd if she wore pants.
Funny thing is, there has already been an Assassins Creed with a female character, granted it was quite short and on handheld. But in this case they opted to make four characters coop (in the main series), and leave out the opportunity to actually have a female character with an actual character development and actual break their mold of mainly male lead characters. Seeing as Assassins Creed is as far away from reality, I don't think a female learned in combat running around on roofs would be that weird, hell the games where you had Assassins to help you, there were females among them. It is a lost oppurtinity that people are disgruntled about, oh that and Ubisofts answer as to why.
Another point is that people consider that females are over sexualised in games.
My answer is that men are oversexualised as well. What is the last game you've played with a fat bald dude or a teenage boy with his face full of acne? Or a stupid fat average guy like homer simpson who just tries to get through his day to day life?
You dont see that. Because games are ment to escape the world of mundane, to get players in a fantasy world.
Gonna go with the typical answer here and say for men it is a power fantasy, big muscles, badass, gruff voice etc.. There aren't many female characters that come close to being badass, and even the ones that are, oh yeah better have DD and an ass of model. Not clothed to combat or anything really; purely for the purpose of showing, granted a lot of male characters fall under that as well.
I think for a lot of men, it can be quite hard to see why some women (myself included), wants their to be a bit of change to the industry (not in the extreme way that some women wants it). Too often do I see a female character in a game, and all I see is a tits and ass and zero character, and it is even more rare to being able to play a good female character; that is wearing badass clothes, has badass lines, a badass character and in general just more than tits and ass. Unfortunately all discussions just end up being who can throw the must shit at the other side
4. Keeping violence down in video games and movies
There are absolutely no studies to show that violent games leed to violent behavior. There are billions of people playing games and most of them are violent. Yet there is no increase in violence worldwide then it was 30 years ago.
And as a med student I find it so unrealistic whenever I see a movie with people shooting at each other with assault rifles and there is not even the tinyest amount of blood going on.
Question; do you somehow enjoy games less, because blood is not splattered around all over the floor and whatnot? Because that sounds a tad weird; of course it is a little bit of an immersion break, but is it really the thing that games need? More blood and violence?
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