CUNTBAG HOOOOOO!
Ok if I see one more feminist bimbo who has NO IDEA what she's talking about spouting off on women's misrepresentation in video games I'm gunna vomit. They complain that women in video games are nothing but brainless sets of overly large breasts. OBVIOUSLY they have never actually touched a video game before other than to hold the box up and scoff at it.
First off I will admit than in many games, fighters especially, women are modeled a little... disproportionately. But look at target audiences of fighting games: Men ages 12-60. I'm pretty sure you are going to pander to the market you are selling to cuz i can't think of a lot of guys who want to play as the, "Fugly Farm Gal." Also is it fair to only target video games as perps of these crimes? I can't remember EVER looking at pictures of women in ads for health and beauty products who looked well fed or homely. They advertise an unobtainable beauty to get you to buy shit, video games advertise sex because sex sells.
But with all that in mind it is still RETARDED (and I mean, dangerously... like the kind of people you put in a home and feed through bars RETARDED) to heap "ALL VIDEO GAME WOMEN" into one pile. Lets look as some ladies who know a thing or two about fairness in the gender representation:
Alix from the half life series. She saves your sorry dumb ass A LOT. She's smarter than you, pretty good with a gun, and very unlikely to ever succumb to a "damsil in distress" moment. She's also NOT well endowed and while she's not bad looking, i doubt she's going to be making any Maxim appearances any time soon. So there you go... a female video game character that apparently doesn't exist...
Zelda from the Legend of Zelda series. While she has been known to get captured... well a lot... she never fails to kick some serious ass when the time comes. Often aiding our hero, Link, in battles that he otherwise would never be able to win. She also often finds herself responsible for ruling over an entire kingdom on her own and helping the hero along his quests.
Yuna from Final Fantasy X and X-2. Here is a girl of gaming that has all the right features. While a tad naive she is loyal, trustworthy, completely selfless and in no way does she have a lot of "Hubba Hubba" going on under her robes. She is willing to go on a trechorous journey to obtain the power to defeat the greatest being of evil her world has ever know, Sin. She also does all of this ***SPOILER WARNING* knowing that in the end, she has to sacrifice her own life to save people she doesn't even know.**** Does that sound like a busty bimbo to you?
Laura Croft from the Tomb Raider series. Now i know I know, Laura is the lady who STARTED the whole, "SEX SELLS VIDEO GAMES" era but hear me out. Despite her "balloon animal" qualities she is in fact extremely smart. She has advanced knowledge of ancient history and cave exploration skills. She's also incredibly physically fit and able to hold her own against millions of puzzles, challenges, and baddies.
Chun Li from Street fighter. If Laura started the "SEX SELLS" then Chun Li was the birth mother of the "unreal women in games." Yet while she struck the mold for, "big boobs and weaker than male characters" she also represents many other qualities. She was in fact the ONLY girl in the first street fighter. She was able to hold her own with a TRADE OFF of strength for agility. She wasn't unbalanced in any way as anyone who games will tell you, speed=power. All the strength in the world isn't going to save you if the person you're fighting against nails you 23 times before you can even set up your first punch.
Finally (my favorite) Samas Aran from the Metroid series. This woman is a bad ass bounty hunter who doesn't take any crap from overwhelming odds. She's smart enough to figure out ancient and often alien puzzles, self reliant enough to run all her mission solo, and powerful enough that she commands the respect and admiration of the entire human space armada. Not even Oprah can claim that kinda street cred. I'd like to see any woman on earth crash land on a planet infested with mutant life forms bent on sucking her innards out her ears, then having the brain power to fight and puzzle her way to the bottom of a thousand year old mystery while controlling an arsenal of amazing gadgets and guns against WAVES of enemies all for the betterment of the entire human race, then stand by and let some fucking politician who's never known anything about her call her an unfair representation of women.
So yea, these are just a few of an ARMY of empowering women in video games. When's the last time you saw a beauty product commercial that was made to make a woman feel good about themselves? NEVER. Now you go kick some guys ass at Soul Calibur as a girl and tell me how it feels. A lot better than any face oil ever will.
First off I will admit than in many games, fighters especially, women are modeled a little... disproportionately. But look at target audiences of fighting games: Men ages 12-60. I'm pretty sure you are going to pander to the market you are selling to cuz i can't think of a lot of guys who want to play as the, "Fugly Farm Gal." Also is it fair to only target video games as perps of these crimes? I can't remember EVER looking at pictures of women in ads for health and beauty products who looked well fed or homely. They advertise an unobtainable beauty to get you to buy shit, video games advertise sex because sex sells.
But with all that in mind it is still RETARDED (and I mean, dangerously... like the kind of people you put in a home and feed through bars RETARDED) to heap "ALL VIDEO GAME WOMEN" into one pile. Lets look as some ladies who know a thing or two about fairness in the gender representation:
Alix from the half life series. She saves your sorry dumb ass A LOT. She's smarter than you, pretty good with a gun, and very unlikely to ever succumb to a "damsil in distress" moment. She's also NOT well endowed and while she's not bad looking, i doubt she's going to be making any Maxim appearances any time soon. So there you go... a female video game character that apparently doesn't exist...
Zelda from the Legend of Zelda series. While she has been known to get captured... well a lot... she never fails to kick some serious ass when the time comes. Often aiding our hero, Link, in battles that he otherwise would never be able to win. She also often finds herself responsible for ruling over an entire kingdom on her own and helping the hero along his quests.
Yuna from Final Fantasy X and X-2. Here is a girl of gaming that has all the right features. While a tad naive she is loyal, trustworthy, completely selfless and in no way does she have a lot of "Hubba Hubba" going on under her robes. She is willing to go on a trechorous journey to obtain the power to defeat the greatest being of evil her world has ever know, Sin. She also does all of this ***SPOILER WARNING* knowing that in the end, she has to sacrifice her own life to save people she doesn't even know.**** Does that sound like a busty bimbo to you?
Laura Croft from the Tomb Raider series. Now i know I know, Laura is the lady who STARTED the whole, "SEX SELLS VIDEO GAMES" era but hear me out. Despite her "balloon animal" qualities she is in fact extremely smart. She has advanced knowledge of ancient history and cave exploration skills. She's also incredibly physically fit and able to hold her own against millions of puzzles, challenges, and baddies.
Chun Li from Street fighter. If Laura started the "SEX SELLS" then Chun Li was the birth mother of the "unreal women in games." Yet while she struck the mold for, "big boobs and weaker than male characters" she also represents many other qualities. She was in fact the ONLY girl in the first street fighter. She was able to hold her own with a TRADE OFF of strength for agility. She wasn't unbalanced in any way as anyone who games will tell you, speed=power. All the strength in the world isn't going to save you if the person you're fighting against nails you 23 times before you can even set up your first punch.
Finally (my favorite) Samas Aran from the Metroid series. This woman is a bad ass bounty hunter who doesn't take any crap from overwhelming odds. She's smart enough to figure out ancient and often alien puzzles, self reliant enough to run all her mission solo, and powerful enough that she commands the respect and admiration of the entire human space armada. Not even Oprah can claim that kinda street cred. I'd like to see any woman on earth crash land on a planet infested with mutant life forms bent on sucking her innards out her ears, then having the brain power to fight and puzzle her way to the bottom of a thousand year old mystery while controlling an arsenal of amazing gadgets and guns against WAVES of enemies all for the betterment of the entire human race, then stand by and let some fucking politician who's never known anything about her call her an unfair representation of women.
So yea, these are just a few of an ARMY of empowering women in video games. When's the last time you saw a beauty product commercial that was made to make a woman feel good about themselves? NEVER. Now you go kick some guys ass at Soul Calibur as a girl and tell me how it feels. A lot better than any face oil ever will.