I, and likely the majority of people don't go to college to learn, we go to make ourselves more marketable for a job. If jobs didn't require a degree enrollment would plummet.
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Are you actually, lamenting the decline in availability of works which fetishize rape?
I'm going to guess that he meant "choices going against artists choices".
Which I think snopes would put as partially true as there have been lobby efforts and somewhat behind closed doors moves against companies or to approach and get in good with companies. Basically the same kind of doors a lot of journalists have access behind like at invite only parties or special meetings etc.
And what is wrong with studying for the pure sake of intellectual interest, not it's monetary potential? Would we even have astronomy if you had your way?
It's not rape if no real person is getting hurt for fuck sake. Do you fetishize war when you play COD or murder in GTA? Video Games don't cause violence or crimes. And real-life rape is a crime.
Also, what are you an evangelical Christian, get out of here with your moralizing.
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Because the previous poster stated that colleges are not trade schools, but even if they don't CALL themselves trade schools, people tend to go to them to be more marketable in their chosen field hence defacto they may as well be, or are treated as such by their customers.
Now that is incredibly country dependend.
E.G, in Germany teachers need special university degrees in subject(teaching) which is a mix of the topic at hand and pedagogy. A regular university course will end with teaching qualifications for two subjects and some mandatory practice in schools.
Side entry with is possible but only when there is some huge demand for the subject, comes with a long extra qualification phase and only for people who already have a degree in or related to the subject. All those esceptions are decided on state level. So far that happens pretty much only for some STEM entries and the occasional rare language. Of course teachers can also later qualify for additional subjects as well.
So a gender studies BA or master can't do any career in education aside from aiming for university professor. Or they could start completely over with a second degree.
Of course our harsher teaching qualification requirements also come with higher pay and more social status.
Only in the context of platforms not wanting to sell them is the beginning of the end for anything sexier than a bare ankle.
Yes and yes. Especially the first one
I mean, you're theorizing that there's secret cabal of feminists influencing videogame studios from the shadows to make people criticize shitty anime games for flashing the panties of fictional high school girls.
You may not be doing crimes, but it's pretty clear that the bits of the culture around games that you are plugged into is having some kind of effect.
There was the group pushing CoC into various open source projects (but not any Code of Conduct a special one being pushed) and the whole situation with the Ada initiative trying to frame prominent figures in coding / open source development circles.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is some concerted effort going on by some groups to get people into gaming studios to influence them.
Right... okay. It's regular, you see it all the time, right. That's why your examples were all just regular people you'd see in the street every day.
Oh, wait...
Ok so when was the last time you walked down the street and saw a female opera singer fighting with a female wrestler?
Because you really want to try and apply the "it happens in he street every day" argument then I dunno what streets you've been going down but I don't regularly see people who look like Zack their either lol
Ooook. Then let's look specifically at wrestlers/ boxers/ martial artists.
What proportion of professional female martial artists do you reckon wear bikinis/ hot pants while fighting?
How many in Dead or Alive do that?
The only martial artist whose what you'd consider a traditional one in Dead or Alive would be Leifang whose default outfit is a dress
Or Hitomi whose default outfit is pretty close to street casual wear
Or are you suggesting female martial artists never wear bikini's ever in their lives?
Because so far your argument now seems to have become arguing that alternative costumes (which male characters also have) are a problem. Which........ I mean really you're arguing realism when one of Zack's alternative costumes is....... well this.....
Ahh yes, super secret codes of conduct supported by unknown groups, different from "regular" codes of conduct, definitely being pushed for unknown but sinister reasons, all to render sexy games unviable. Sound a bit conspiracy theoristy
Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond
Attempts to frame open-source leaders with false sexual assault allegations alleged
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Got anything that isn't an organization that dissolved 6 years ago?
You mean the game where Ada Wong was wearing nylons and high heels even though she wore pants and sensible shoes in the original?
Somehow, I don't think that's another case of the evil SJW cabal controlling everything.
Well there's Silver String media but we can't really talk about all those discoveries.Ahh yes, super secret codes of conduct supported by unknown groups, different from "regular" codes of conduct, definitely being pushed for unknown but sinister reasons, all to render sexy games unviable. Sound a bit conspiracy theoristy
Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond
Attempts to frame open-source leaders with false sexual assault allegations alleged
Got anything that isn't an organization that dissolved 6 years ago?
There's ex finance manager of Femfreq Kathrine Cross who suddenly became an expert video game developer according to Gamasutra who gave her a spot there normally just for professionals in the games industry to be part of there
There's Heather Alexandra who mysteriously left Polygon I think it was and became Double Fine's Social Media Manager (no ill will towards her. she seems more some-one who fell for the narrative rather than a true believer).
There's the writer for the KOTOR remake who was previously best known for being the person pushing the GTA V digital rape controversy in Australia.
There's claims about a sort of successor group or groups to the Ada initiative still going on in some capacity.
It's not to render sex games unviable it's "To save the world" or "Change the culture to fix society" or some other bullshit.
Sex games being changed aren't the goal, they're a stepping stone
From a quick look at the DOA5 roster, I'd say 8 out of the 16 female characters wear outfits significantly more sexualised than what the vast majority of actual martial artists/ combatants would wear.
Nice strawman, really excellent work. Could do with a bit more subtlety, though, just a bit of advice.
Except I actually wasn't: you were the one who originally brought up the comparison with real-life attire. Did you forget?
Problem is I pointed out we kinda have to discount the Ninja clan members from being part of this argument unless you'd like to point out what modern day women secret ninja clan members wear lol Also you have to discount the mythical beings.
So no:
Kasumi
Ayane
Kanna
Momiji
Nyotengu
Also no guest fighters cause come on that would be cheating.
That leaves very few who in their default looks would be considered more sexualised
Well again you're objecting seemingly to optional costumes otherwise rather than default costumes and that starts to get into the realms of being silly because of course games will have some silly alternative costumes that's just games normally a lot of the time.
except the general argument for them being uniquely sexualised and a problem is that they're somehow far more sexualised than real women in the same positions or activities which isn't the case.
There's absolutely no reason that we would need to compare them to existing real-life counterparts. What a bizarre requirement you've dreamt up.
You're just cooking up convenient exemptions.
This doesn't even address what you quoted.
No, it isn't, you've just reframed your opponents' position to suit yourself.
So you're arguing they're unrealistically sexualised compared to what again as there's not real version to compare to lol.
What unrealistically compared to some other fiction?
Ah yes clearly the magical Tengu character with wings is unrealistic and must be made to look more like a real Tengu lol.
Yes it does because your argument is so highly flawed. "How any martial artists do this stuff in bikini's" well most of the DOA girls don't do it either as their default look Imagine applying that standard to any other video game "Oh it's unrealistic photo journalist Frank West runs round a mall dressed as Mega Man"
Ok then so if you're not comparing them to reality does that mean the real life women in said roles are overly sexualised and should be toned down?