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Tell me you didn't just say that: an open letter to Anita Sarkeesian
On 07/03/2013 at 08:02 AM by Ranger1 See More From This User » |
Dear Ms. Sarkeesian,
I've been listening to your goings on about female tropes in games and all that claptrap for a while. I will agree that there are some issues in the industry, but that is a discussion for another time. What I'd like to talk to you about involves something you recently said about the control scheme in Mirror's Edge being too complicated and that more women would play this game if it weren't so hard. I know I just paraphrased that, but that's how it came off.
Ms. Sarkeesian, tell me you didn't just say that. Tell me you didn't just come off as a whiny 80s blonde bimbo of a teenage girl. Honey, you just lost what very little credibility you ever had with this middle-aged woman who has been actively playing computer and video games for the last 30 years. You have just insulted every female gamer who has ever picked up a controller, not to mention the ones who play competitively, like the Frag Dolls. All the women out there who have ever dealt with shit from idiots during online matches just because they happen to be female will not be thanking you for that asinine statement. And the worst of it is, you have no clue what you just did. My issue with you all along, even before this, was my sense that you weren't really sincere in changing the industry for the better, just in getting some attention for yourself. Going after gaming was really just picking the low-hanging fruit. I found your series of videos to be just variations on the same theme, pointing out what was wrong (sometimes erroneously, you may want to actually play some of the games you're picking on next time), but never doing anything to actually change the industry. And then this. Do us all a favor and go do some real good by pointing out the failings in Disney Princess movies. Those are far worse than games when it comes to portraying women and their target is young girls. However, if I'm wrong (which I doubt), and you really do want to make positive changes in the games industry, then put some of that Kickstarter money toward starting scholarships for women who want to get into the industry, start your own studio and make the kinds of games you would like to play, but for the love of all that's holy, keep your mouth shut about games being "too hard." There are real gamer women who just don't want to hear it.
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