10 Replies to “Christina Hoff Summers: Are video games sexist? [Darleen Click]”

1. McGehee says:

   September 20, 2014 at 11:09 am

   Reality is sexist, and there’s not a damn thing wrong with that.

2. Darleen says:

   September 20, 2014 at 11:32 am

   Agreed.

   Gaming is sheer free market. Nothing stops Rad-Fems from developing and tossing their own Anti-Patriarchal, Gender-malleable, violence-free games into the market.

   It is clear that competing is not what they want.

3. Silver Whistle says:

   September 20, 2014 at 12:23 pm

   Are video games sexist?

   The sexist ones, yes. Next?

4. happyfeet says:

   September 20, 2014 at 1:05 pm

   Electronic Arts is all in for food stamp’s new campaign to shine a spotlight on america’s eminently-rapeable coeds:

   Electronic Arts, a leading video gaming company, has lined up a major presence across social media channels and online platforms to carry the “It’s On Us” message to fans and players of EA’s games. The social network channels of 16 EA franchises and properties, totaling more than 30 different channels across Facebook, Twitter and more, will post visual assets, messaging and links directing fans to “Take the Pledge” and support “It’s On Us.” EA brands and franchises including EA and EA SPORTS, Dragon Age, The Sims, and many more will reach a fan base of millions today with the message of “It’s On Us.”

5. McGehee says:

   September 20, 2014 at 2:45 pm

   I can get proggy points by promising not to do something I’ve never wanted to do? Cool!

6. McGehee says:

   September 20, 2014 at 3:09 pm

   OT: I just saw a new Jack Link’s ad.

   They’ve fired Sasquatch!

7. happyfeet says:

   September 20, 2014 at 3:10 pm

   yes yes yes you have to take the pledge to forswear the tasty college rape candy

   stopping rape – it really is just that easy!

   (obama’s the one that figured it out)

8. serr8d says:

   September 20, 2014 at 4:18 pm

   These games, or better termed ‘temporary suspensions of reality’, were purposed as sheer escapism. Now, given the ever-increasing power of our new Controllers, they are re-purposed as politically-correct training tools.

   I have to wonder, how long before books that are considered ‘off the narrow trails’ we can allow our thoughts to meander taken off public shelves? Why, think of what could happen to some of the American classics! They’d be hounded to verboten, whispered to unmentionable, and soon forgotten.

   And we can’t even call this a nuanced ‘Dark Age’ without wondering if that phraseology is among the hunted?

   Our universities, the cradle of our technological and intellectual future, have become overwhelmed by Comintern-style New Age “Political Correctness.” With the collapse of the Soviet Union, our campuses now represent the largest concentration of Marxist dogma in the world. The irrational adolescent outbursts of the 1960’s have become institutionalized into a “permanent revolution.” Our professors glance over their shoulders, hoping the current mode will blow over before a student’s denunciation obliterates a life’s work; some audio-tape their lectures, fearing accusations of “insensitivity” by some enraged “Red Guard.” Students at the University of Virginia recently petitioned successfully to drop the requirement to read Homer, Chaucer, and other DEMS (“Dead European Males”) because such writings are considered ethnocentric, phallocentric, and generally inferior to the “more relevant” Third World, female, or homosexual authors.

   This is not the academy of a republic; this is Hitler’s Gestapo and Stalin’s NKVD rooting out “deviationists,” and banning books—the only thing missing is the public bonfire.

   We will have to face the fact that the ugliness we see around us has been consciously fostered and organized in such a way, that a majority of the population is losing the cognitive ability to transmit to the next generation, the ideas and methods upon which our civilization was built. The loss of that ability is the primary indicator of a Dark Age. And, a new Dark Age is exactly what we are in. In such situations, the record of history is unequivocal: either we create a Renaissance—a rebirth of the fundamental principles upon which civilization originated—or, our civilization dies.

9. Ernst Schreiber says:

   September 22, 2014 at 12:49 am

   Are video games sexist?

   I can’t even begin to forumlate an answer to that until somebody can explain to me why a guy would want to pretend to be Lara Croft.

10. geoffb says:

    September 22, 2014 at 6:39 am

    [O]r, our civilization dies.

    Death cults always work towards death, of everything.

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