Grand Theft Auto, Vice City is the perfect example of the pretty female bystander. While the main character is male, has big muscles, but not very attractive, there are pedestrian bystanders all arou

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http://pages.emerson.edu/Courses/spring03/ma362/Video%20games%20and%20gender/videogames/gTheftA.html

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

http://pages.emerson.edu/Courses/spring03/ma362/Video%20games%20and%20gender/videogames/final/images/ninja.gif

Caption: "Poor intergender interaction in Temco's Ninja Gaiden"

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

The page about Final Fantasy is pretty funny as they try to read Western gender norms onto it!

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Contemporary hegemonic masculinity is responsible for the gender roles that exist in video games and throughout the world

Look out, someone's got a boner for the girl sitting next to them in 1st year uni and is trying to impress her!

What a badly made website :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Videogames and Gender involve much more than flashy graphics and sounds.

That doesnt even make sense :|

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Born out of coin-op pinball's glory, the thought of an electronic departure from the analog world enticed many quarters out of the pockets of young people.

Jesus Christ, is this guy a journalism major? Horrid.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

Much like the character Samus Aran, Duke Nukem is a character that operates alone. He adheres to hegemonic masculinity’s conquistador experience throughout his missions. Though there are times when he breaks this contact, though it occurs only via radio and random encounters with non-interactive strippers.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/openpic.php?name=..%2Fscreenshots_library%2Fdir_111%2Fvortal_pic_55599.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Goldendexter/Dexter/Wolfy/WolfyNinbarbie.jpg http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009QI5J.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://www.classicgaming.com/mdb/m2/m2end1.jpg http://www.algonet.se/~longbow/zelda2/zelda.gif http://www.zilarik.com/skins/stockholm/img/errr.jpg http://spyhunter007.com/Images/donkey_kong_and_girl.gif

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

non-interactive no less!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

http://adi.brainspace.info/upload/upload_files/snapshot_f054d39c_b05766de.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

also the site misuses the term "hegemonic," which is a pet peeve of mine.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Are you guys trying to tell me there's stupid people on the internet?

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

actually, we thought we should wait until you were a little older to break the news.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

and random encounters with non-interactive strippers

but you could give 'em a dollar to flash their baps!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Dudez, this is awesome. The one on Metroid Prime is endlessly classic:

At first Metroid Prime is a game that appears to break the gender roles, by not subscribing to hegemonic masculinity.

[...]

Since we first saw Samus back in 1986, she has been going on solo missions attempting to exterminate the Metroid race, thus her conquistador exterior is nothing new.

[...]

As much as Samus breaks with gender roles, she adheres to them as well. To compensate for the gender of the lead character, the creators of Metroid masked her in a suit of special armor. Covering her entire body, the armor does not reveal any sence of a female figure. Instead the armor implies a very muscular build with accentuated shoulders, large pectoral muscles, not breasts, and a "V" shaped upper torsocommonly associated with men.

[...]

The blatant disguise of her gender almost completely negates the purposes for having a female lead character. Without blatantly showing her female gender, the game loses the majority of its credibility in terms of gender theory. However, one thing to remember is that this [previously-mentioned statement] comes from the perspective of 2003....

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

what games DO have gender theory cred?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, any with female leads.

"Empowerment" vs "Objectification" vs "Chick with BIG GUNS"

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that FF one is choice:

"While playing the game, I often became confused as to his gender because of his physical presentation."

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Four people wrote that page, btw.

http://pages.emerson.edu/Courses/spring03/ma362/

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/screen/draglair2.jpg

http://www.toymania.com/toyshows/e3_2002/images/e3dirk.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

...Seventeen years ago when this game series was introduced, he gender did make an impact on society. I remember as a young boy, I assumed Samus's gender to be male. I also remember how impressed and surprised i was to learn that Samus was indeed female. Influencing the mind of a ten year old boy (I first experienced Metroid in its second installment after it was released in 1991) is a very powerful task, which the creaters at Techmo executed with great finese.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

It is WRONG for GTA bystander characters to have large bosoms and tiny waists... but it is ALSO wrong for Samus' armor to hide her female figure??

Cultural studies majors in unscholarly shocker.

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

If Samus' titties were bouncing around throughout the Metroid franchise, the author of this crap would no doubt characterize her as "mastubatory male fantasy object" and "imprisoned by the male gaze."

Fuck you, undergrad ponce.

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Female emancipation = a sports bra!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

What we really need is a game that allows us to play as an overweight Guatemalan woman and gives us socially conscious objectives, like jury duty or AIDS research.

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Kuja female in the Japanese release of FF9?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I would totally play the game where you are Mama Cass and you have to stop a complex political conspiracy that at first glance appears to be a simple witch hunt but is later revealed to be a neo-fascist plot to completely balkanize america and a festival of manipulative double agency, with only your puzzle-solving wits and ability to match up button presses to pulsing rhythms and images on the screen.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I, too, would be perversely fascinated by a game that involved a protracted ham sandwich sequence.

― The Ghost of Obvious Jokes (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

oh dan, i just managed to resist it myself.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

i disappointed that he didn't get into the gender ramifications of Mama Cass, here:

http://www.squareuniverse.net/images/interviews/quina-render.jpeg

i mean, she's got a chef's hat, blue magic, and eats frogs! total gender hegemonic stereotype.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

The author's favorite game:

http://www.steermadness.com/

― :[ (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

However, one thing to remember is that this [previously-mentioned statement] comes from the perspective of 2003.... because of this, there are dinosaurs.

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

don't give them ideas. They might do a full gender-specific treatise on Dino Crisis parts 1 & 3.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.richardcobbett.co.uk/codex/totallynotblog/filingcabinet/writing_a_girls_in_games_article%22

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.richardcobbett.co.uk/graphics/journal/defeating_sexism.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

kant wate to c.u. on the server!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.raffiniert.ch/images/kant.jpg

o rly?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

'Most of these bystanders are sexualized females with very skimpy bathing suites, big breasts and small waists.'

Mmmmm that's given me a lob on the size of new hampshire.

― Darramouss ftw! (Darramouss ftw), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

robble at kant

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

that dinosaurs joke gets me every single time, it's pathetic.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

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