[WoW] Female Leadership in WoW

[deathfromafar]

From the Open Q&A at Blizzcon, via MMO-Champion:

"I love what you guys have done with WoW, I love that there's a lot of strong female chars, though I wonder if we can have some that didnt look like they came out of a Victoria's Secrets catalogue?
Which catalogue would you like them step out of then? We feel ya, we want to vary our female chars

Comments

[krysadis]

Bah. Just... bah.

[krysadis]

It's like they can't imagine a woman in power that doesn't wear skank-plate.

Agreed. Or that they can't imagine a female character of any race that doesn't look like a catalogue model in dimensions.

I repeat, bah.

[his_hoofiness]

Wow. That's... not cool at all. Geeze, Blizzard.

[slarnos]

Wow. That reads like someone completely failed to understand the point of the question. Or, less likely, that they were really that tactless and/or clueless.

Either way, the end result remains someone's foot getting a guided tour of Mouthville.

[sodzilla]

...yeah. Sadly, I think the Blizzard crew - and many of the players - are exactly that unaware. And uninterested, too, because this isn't the first time the issue has been brought up and they simply refuse to get a clue.

[khandreia]

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. What else should you expect from a place that doesn't even have any women whatsoever on its dev team?

Meanwhile, I'm sure they're still wondering just why so many women raised hell about the RealID thing a while back before finally giving in and changing it. The cluelessness on Blizzard's part is staggering.