Feminists Play Grand Theft Auto.

[Alternat¡ve]

The game is geared toward edgy 8-15 year olds. Of course it is gonna have shooting of women and strip clubs. How else will they get their puberty fix?

Stupid lmao

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[Swholli]

Because the writers didn't write one in. That's it. It's stupid as hell to think that way.

Why not? They wrote three different protagonists this time around, why can't even one be a chick?

im not sure if you want to relate to gta characters but yeah it wouldnt hurt to have a female main character, though males have thus far been the primary audience. it might take some persuading to actually convince the devs that females are a large portion of the audience.

Well, you know what I meant, yeah on the surface you shouldn't relate to criminals, but that's not the issue. And if I'm not mistaken, the demographic of those who play video games, twice as many adult females play video games compared to males (x)

[MoltenKitten]

...It's not though? Please be stupid elsewhere.

uh no it's not
it has a m+ label for a reason

Stupid lmao

Did you not get that I was making a joke? I thought it seemed obvious.

[Jairo]

you do realize you can make a female character in online, yes

they didn't write a female in because they didn't want to

And if I'm not mistaken, the demographic of those who play video games, twice as many adult females play video games compared to males (x)

pretty sure that statistic counts mobile gamers

[KickFlow]

When you go online you can be a female character.
The story of GTA V is about 3 men, and if you don't like that, you can't say "loveISM, MISOGYNY, RAPE CULTURE!"

The latest barbie game doesn't have a strong male protagonist, how loveist!

No, it's just rockstars targeted audience. Males typically enjoy mayhem, blowing stuff up, love, and intense situations, so they geared the game to men.

thing to note: the poster of this is buzzfeed and this is exactly the public 'buzz' they want to create with their awful, stuffty content

Yeah I usually hate their content. They have some really cool videos but they really push the feminist agenda.

[tnatsissA]

The game is geared toward edgy 8-15 year olds. Of course it is gonna have shooting of women and strip clubs. How else will they get their puberty fix?

Look, I never said I was smart, okay?

Did you not get that I was making a joke? I thought it seemed obvious.

You gotta use a lot of internet slang.

[Kimon²]

Why not? They wrote three different protagonists this time around, why can't even one be a chick?

Well, you know what I meant, yeah on the surface you shouldn't relate to criminals, but that's not the issue. And if I'm not mistaken, the demographic of those who play video games, twice as many adult females play video games compared to males (x)

>trusting the washington post

[The GI of MA]

Did you not get that I was making a joke? I thought it seemed obvious.

it wasn't very funny or well-coordinated then

[Akio]

These "feminists" are some of the most loveist individuals I've seen.

[McJob]

The whole debate is loving handicapped.

Writers create characters to convey specific things about the plot and message. If a male will do that better for their intentions, they'll write male characters. If a female will do that better, they'll write female characters.

Any sane and logical writer/designer is not creating characters because people in the audience want them. They have to be designed to fit within whatever world is being created and to serve as a tool of expression for the writer.

You know what really loving pisses me off? Everybody is debating stupid stuff like females in games and paid mods, and yet nobody wants to discuss the net effects of video gaming in society. McLuhan said that "the medium is the message"; the whole point is that it's not about individual pieces of music, movies or newspapers. It's about the net effect of what that medium contributes to society. That's what we should be focusing on, since gaming has unique potential and pitfalls that we should be exploiting.

Instead, morons want to instead cry because their character model doesn't have tits.

[Swholli]

Yeah, but online isn't comparable to a single player experience. At least in terms of interactive story.

And I'm not saying that they have to write female characters, I'm asking why aren't there more than a few (in a mainstream game, of course, obviously Portal, Bayonetta and the like exist and I'm not discounting those, I'm saying the multitude of game written for men or about men are staggeringly high numbers)

[McJob]

And I'm not saying that they have to write female characters, I'm asking why aren't there more than a few

Because there's more writers who want to write stories that are better suited to male protagonists. That's it.

[Kimon²]

And I'm not saying that they have to write female characters, I'm asking why aren't there more than a few (in a mainstream game, of course, obviously Portal, Bayonetta and the like exist and I'm not discounting those, I'm saying the multitude of game written for men or about men are staggeringly high numbers)

"why are kids shows geared towards kids so much?"

obviously i dont mean to say video games are boyz only ! but again they are the primary demographic, and definitely the best audience to make money off of.

[Swholli]

And why is that?

[Ipquarx]

That lady whose saying all the crazy stuff is a borderline, if not full-on radical feminist. I hope to never see the day that radical feminism gets a major say in how things are run in the world.

And I'm not saying that they have to write female characters, I'm asking why aren't there more than a few (in a mainstream game, of course, obviously Portal, Bayonetta and the like exist and I'm not discounting those, I'm saying the multitude of game written for men or about men are staggeringly high numbers)

half life 2, half life 2 eps. 1 & 2, portal 1, portal 2, mirrors edge, mirrors edge 2 (which is coming out sometime soon), borderlands 1, borderlands 2, a multitude of castlevania games, skyrim, oblivion, fallout 2 & 3, should I go on?