Feminism/Sexism and Gaming/Geek/Popular culture Catch All

H.P. Lovesauce wrote:

Overheard at work: "When I took my (four-year-old) son to Hooter's last night..."

*tears up humanity membership card*

Well.. they do have a kids menu.

GioClark wrote:
H.P. Lovesauce wrote:

Overheard at work: "When I took my (four-year-old) son to Hooter's last night..."

*tears up humanity membership card*

Well.. they do have a kids menu.

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Hooters still exists? I immediately think of Married With Children when I hear that word.

dejanzie wrote:

Hooters still exists? I immediately think of Married With Children when I hear that word.

So long as there are rednecks, there shall always be Hooters.

If online behaviour were offline:
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That is depressingly accurate.

That picture reminds me very much of some of the things I read about in college when writing a paper on the influences of the Civil Rights movement of the 60s on the Women's Rights movement.

There was a specific incident I recall where a female speaker at a civil rights meeting brought up the roles of women in the movement (I think that was what she was talking abou; it was a long time ago) and was shouted down. The crowd indeed yelled things like "Take her off the stage and f*** her!"

There were other cases recounted, but that one really stuck with me.

Edit: Google proves my ailing memory reasonably accurate: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defc...

The crowd indeed yelled things like "Take her off the stage and f*** her!"

Wow.

Just... damn.

Like I get morons saying these things when hiding behind anonymity. I still hate it, but I get why they feel they can when in the mob.

Yelling that in person?

-1 to faith in humanity.

Some positive stuff, in a thread mired in muck:

http://www.themarysue.com/teaching-m...

Jonman wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:
H.P. Lovesauce wrote:

Overheard at work: "When I took my (four-year-old) son to Hooter's last night..."

*tears up humanity membership card*

That much loud music could really mess up a kid's hearing.

More to the point, they might think that those orange shorts have ever been acceptable clothing since the 70's.

It's not the orange shorts that bug me, is the unappealing shiny orangish pantyhose they all wear.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:
H.P. Lovesauce wrote:

Overheard at work: "When I took my (four-year-old) son to Hooter's last night..."

*tears up humanity membership card*

That much loud music could really mess up a kid's hearing.

More to the point, they might think that those orange shorts have ever been acceptable clothing since the 70's.

It's not the orange shorts that bug me, is the unappealing shiny orangish pantyhose they all wear.

Not to mention the matching orange spray-tan that seems to be part of the dress-code.

Anyone watch Mozart's Sister? It's interesting but ultimately depressing. At least things have gotten a bit better.

Interesting read about how the Left generally fails to deal properly with rape culture and gender issues.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

Interesting read about how the Left generally fails to deal properly with rape culture and gender issues.

Context: UK's far left.

An interesting read. I'm curious is the Brits' far right have been pushing a similar agenda to the Republicans in the States.

That said, both sides here have had their moments of idiocy that primarily comes, I suspect, from a lack of experience or desire to get more experience in these issues... but I doubt anything will top the slew of Akin-esque comments from Republicans this past year.

Rock Paper Shotgun: Deep Silver Promote Dead Island With [em]Appalling[/em] Statue

*sigh* I can't even be surprised by this sort of thing any more.

Hypatian wrote:

Rock Paper Shotgun: Deep Silver Promote Dead Island With [em]Appalling[/em] Statue

*sigh* I can't even be surprised by this sort of thing any more.

I think I find that tasteless and kind of sick, but I dunno about sexist. I think my sensor may seriously just be burnt out at this point.

Hypatian wrote:

Rock Paper Shotgun: Deep Silver Promote Dead Island With [em]Appalling[/em] Statue

*sigh* I can't even be surprised by this sort of thing any more.

I think my brain wants to break. That just horrible.

The only silver lining to something like that is if you see that proudly displayed in someone's living quarters, you know to get out fast.

Bloo Driver wrote:
Hypatian wrote:

Rock Paper Shotgun: Deep Silver Promote Dead Island With [em]Appalling[/em] Statue

*sigh* I can't even be surprised by this sort of thing any more.

I think I find that tasteless and kind of sick, but I dunno about sexist. I think my sensor may seriously just be burnt out at this point.

Probably.
While it is in keeping with the theme of the game, it's an incredibly stupid choice. They had a lot of things they could have done for a statue, but they chose zombie boobs. They say it's their take on a Roman torso statue, but Roman statues aren't relevant to the game at all, so far as I know. If they were they could have just zombiefied a famous example instead of this.

Hypatian wrote:

Rock Paper Shotgun: Deep Silver Promote Dead Island With [em]Appalling[/em] Statue

*sigh* I can't even be surprised by this sort of thing any more.

WTF? Is this a late Christmas present for Jack Thompson or something?

Great timing, too: right as the industry is in a blame game with the NRA about why there are so many psychopaths running around these days. It's almost like they want to get video games banned. I want to retroactively boycott this product, but I guess Steam doesn't take returns

That statue is really, really bad. They're going to have to put a lid on that and do some serious backpedaling. *huge mental facepalm*

Wow....yeeeaaah. They really should have chose something different for the whole "Bonus" thing. I do see the sexism there though. They might have wanted to have a male torso version of it as well, or at least give the torso a bloody shirt or something. But even without all the whole offensive thing, I think it's overall a really lame Bonus. Give me an actual zombie statue, or a statue of one of the characters sticking an axe in the head of one, but a torso? Meh.

Here I was thinking someone had posted the funny thing I was going to post already, but it was a dead woman's torso all along. These companies really need to stop trying to use art history to justify their tastelessness, because every time they just reveal how little they know of art history.

Anyway, funny thing to lighten the mood: trailer for the horror movie Fake Geek Girl. It could happen to YOOOOOOOOOU!!

Whoops! That's what I get for having the video AND feminism threads open at the same time. Dubstep birdie does NOT belong in this thread!

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Fake Geek Girl video

My favorite comment on youtube: "That's not funny. My brother died that way."

I LOL'd on the "Why else on earth would anyone pretend to read Aquaman comics!?" Because I actually used to.

(In researching a smart-alec joke for this space, I just discovered that you can buy archives of the old Challengers of the Unknown series. OMG! I had a few of these when I was in high school, but I lost them. It's old-school Jack Kirby before he got hooked up with Stan Lee. Truly awesome stuff, particularly if you're an old pulp novel fan. So the joke is on me, and my wallet. )

dejanzie wrote:

My favorite comment on youtube: "That's not funny. My brother died that way." :lol:

momgamer wrote:

I LOL'd on the "Why else on earth would anyone pretend to read Aquaman comics!?" Because I actually used to.

On I09, I felt the winner was "You can tell she's lying, no one likes Booster Gold!" Particularly since my projected summer movie dystopia is that 2018 sees the release of Booster Gold Begins.

Trachalio wrote:

Whoops! That's what I get for having the video AND feminism threads open at the same time. Dubstep birdie does NOT belong in this thread! :)

YES IT GODDAMN WELL DOES.

John Teti's take on the torso is too good to not post here. "It Belongs in a Museum" is really quite brilliant.

Teti wrote:

You could argue that the figure doesn’t deserve consideration as art, because it wasn’t created by an “artist” per se, and Deep Silver didn’t mean to send up the worst impulses of big-budget game studios. But that only makes it better. You’ve heard of outsider art? This is insider art, crafted by forces deep within the beast. The fact that it was meant to showcase the most appealing aspects of Dead Island is the cherry on top of the depravity sundae. It’s rare that we get to bear witness to an expression of awfulness this pure—it’s perfectly ugly. I hope to see it in a museum someday, as a relic of a bygone era.

A friend posted this article on her Facepages thing:

http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-an...

The article includes a link to a Chrome plugin that swaps the gendered pronouns and terms of whatever page you're reading. It makes for some interesting reading, even if what you're reading is already interesting.