Recent content by angelsmash

You're being too reasonable, friend. Not only are most lay-offs male, most homeless are, too. Almost all of the millions stuffed into prisons are men (and you could make the argument they're raped far, far more often). Feminists have always suffered from the apex fallacy: they see kings...

I'm not saying female gamers don't want a girly Duke Nukem, I'm saying women full stop don't. As female gamers (who aren't, I think we can all agree, playing Farmville or Tetris) are a very small subset of the female half of the population, this means they're very much in the minority. As an...

Girls who play a lot of games tend to underestimate just how uncommon they are. It's not often that they realize they're in the minority when they say they'd be perfectly happy with a female roided-out space marine nuking a million pig cops from orbit.

It's pretty obvious you are who you are. I'm sorry that it's on your sleeve but them's the breaks.

"Schrodinger's Rapist"? Is that seriously real? Does this chick have a panic attack if she sees the Mr. Clean logo in a detergents aisle?

MasochisticMuse, you've misunderstood a great deal of what I wrote. My point wasn't that the movie (or the video game) industry fails to market to women - if anything, it's immensely adept at marketing to women. The failure lies in the attempts to get women to buy games by pushing sassy female...

The dude actually changed his name from Edward or something to "Bear" (I'd change my name to Dirk Jortson or Dr. Ass but I hate paperwork). He's gonna end up meeting the same fate as Steve Irwin. There was some trailer of his on Channel 4 where he was piking down the Amazon in that river with...

You could make a great one piece out of a grizzly bear's butt.

To be honest, what initially tipped me off that the survey was a stinker wasn't the stuff about girls but the factoid that supposedly 94% of parents supervise their kids when they buy games. I mean, come on!

Have to laugh that a thread about women in video games turns into a discussion about what would be cute for a polygonal barbarian to wear

If you actually read the study, it's far less impressive. Think about it: it's a 1,200 sample phone survey, and they intentionally sought households that owned a console. Of course the sex split will be roughly equal: any question would under those circumstances. Not only that, but their...

The US has insane levels of natural resources, are you kidding me?

This is confusing cause and effect (which is a huge problem with feminist-minded women). As I said, it's not that games are "geared towards males" and thus most game players are men, it's that most game players are men in the first place and thus you get a characteristically male product...

I was going to say Cruis'n USA, but that game was actually sort of fun. Command and Conquer for the N64 was one serious stinker, though. I've yet to play an RTS on a console that wasn't like trying to escape a toffee pit while wearing lubed-up latex gloves.

The video game industry is "considered male" because it is. It always has been. Try to think objectively, unclouded by your experiences as a gamer gerl. The market for women is just not that significant, because most women aren't particularly interested in video games (nor computers for that...