Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly?

Thanks to GameSpot for its 'GameSpotting' editorial discussing whether men can be trusted to portray women fairly in videogames. The author references Metroid ("I don't appreciate that Samus being a woman is a punch line"), and Ico ("Yorda... [is] this supposedly sympathetic female character in a video game that can do absolutely nothing for herself and is constantly in danger of being kidnapped"), and ends by leveling the charge: "I think men are inherently incapable of doing an adequate job of properly presenting female characters in games."

RTFA

[empaler]

It's even a male who wrote it.

Goddammit. Next thing we'll have articles about women complaining that it is so cliché to have periods, and that it's only to seem interesting they do it.

I miss stupidpeopledie.com

This just in...

[Anonymous Coward]

A study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that fully 64.3% of all persons born female, show markedly below average, or even undetectable, senses of humor. Their hyper-emotional nature and comparitively large hormonal fluctuations appear to impede the detection of the logical discontinuity necessary for humor.

And the answer is...

[Anonymous Coward]

The author of this article is obviously gay! I don't hear him complaining about having to look at male character's perfectly chiseled features and gleaming chest muscles as he carries a 6 foot long double-barreled gun of justice.

Re:Seen male characters lately?

[The-Bus]

Moustachioed overweight Italian plumbers?

Re:This just in...

[kaellinn18]

Haha, I bet this guy never appreciated the "anonymous coward" option more than now.

The correst premise of this piece

[rudy_wayne]

The correct title should be: Men are iherently incapable of portraying women in video games the way that radical nazi lesbian feminists think they should be portrayed.

Logic...hurting...brain...

[Snowmit]

So a man writes an article about how men are inherently incapable of portraying women properly in a videogame.

He knows this because so far, no man has ever portrayed a woman properly in a video game.

He knows that women have never been properly portrayed because he has a good idea as to how they should be portrayed and none of the women in videogames has ever measured up.

He is a man so he inherently doesn't know how to portray women properly.

But he knows how they should be portrayed.

But he can't know how they should be portrayed.

But...BRAIN EXPLODY

Thank you GameSpotting. Your amazing Zen koan has caused me to reach enlightenment.

Re:It's like this, ya see

[Lord Kano]

No, I'm serious. I like big titties.

LK

Unreal

[WormholeFiend]

well, at the risk of getting flamed...

I thought the female Juggernauts in Unreal Tournament are a spot-on representation of some lesbian activists I've met in the past. ;)

Re:Video Games And Penises...

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree. Oddly enough, I don't see many people complaining that Playboy portrays women unfairly.

You're kidding me, right?

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[Discoflamingo13]

<UltimateMetroid> who here plays metroid?
<Daishi> I only play it cause you gotta know samus is hot under that suit
<UltimateMetroid> fag
<Daishi> dumbass

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