Not implying I enjoy these things; quite the opposite. I just understand why these things happen."
I think that, until videogames permeate society so completely, so wholly that Cosplay IS literally something that everyone does on their free time, and they run around the streets making grunting noises as they do in the games and have de-evolved into characters so completely oblivious to the world around them that the line between the two literally CANNOT be drawn anymore, this is a conversation that doesn't really need to happen, and as that will probably never occur, I feel safe in assuming it won't.
The people that comment "HEY BABY, I WANT YOU IN THE BACKSEAT OF SOMETHING UNCOMFORTABLE" on Facebook pictures of Cosplayers ARE NOT SEXIST. They are ASSHOLES.
There's another line."
If, at ANY point, the game speaks to me in such a manner that I AM actually offended (which has not happened thus far) I will simply chose to not play the game. So far, games haven't changed me in any way, shape or form. They haven't made me look at women any more or less objectively than I'm not playing them.
I am, and always have been under the impression, that if you are LOOKING to be offended by something, you will always find something to take offense to. This holds especially true to people who, in fact, do not play video games, it seems.
I play videogames. I'm mature enough to understand that what I am being presented with is, in fact, not real. Therefore, the game never crosses the line of interacting directly with my reality (Unless Diablo 3 just got released and I have to work at 5 in the morning). It is difficult for me to understand how someone could look at something as innocuous as a digital panty shot and huff and puff and throw words like sexism and opression around, I guess because I'm older than four years old? That just seems like the height of immaturity to me, being unable to distinguish the difference between women in a videogame and women in real life, MAYBE because they are, in fact, viewing women as objects in both."
What is that? What even is that?"
Like, put that sprite inside Space Quest 4, and we're still good."
Also, don't fool yourself. Kia and Hyndai went back on top because the economy was garbage and their prices were hot. Just saying."
Thanks for that."







