Thursday, February 2, 2012

Sexism & Gamers

hmm I don't know how to embed the video into the post so here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83nyCuiMIE
A friend had shared the link on Facebook and I thought I might share it here. It's called "Shit Gamers Say To Their Girlfriends" and to be honest it's way too corny and I probably didn't get it because I didn't get some of the references to certain games but the guys on facebook seem to find it funny. Anyway, what I found more interesting was the youtube viewer's comments. The comments showed the stereotypes of videogaming world such as female gamers to wii users.
Here's one: (insert pic capture 1)

How nice. So according to this quote and the video, all gamers are males and if there are female gamers, then they are terrible and ugly?
There were quite a few comments from female youtube users, like,

According to some of these comments, Wii is not considered a game for the 'real' gamers. Some users deem Wii has casual gaming and some just shun it as a game for females, not 'real' males.
(insert wii captures)

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