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I'm totally seething right now, I can't believe what I've seen, I wish I'd never opened that game, I wish I'd never slid that sleek disc into that hungry slot, my Christmas and New Years are totally. Fucking. Ruined.
Gaming has hit a new low, and it's really fucking low right now. It's like lower than the age of consent in 1970's Poland, lower than the number of calories Victoria Beckham has put in her body since 2005, lower, even, than I imagine the pants of a man by the name LeBron Tyroneson living in the Bronks to be. (No racist). Sexism in gaming however, has hit a new Pinnacle, and it's on some Mount Everest-level shit. #nolie
Something so vile, so sinister, so base, that it is almost not worth, like, talking about has taken flight, flapped its feaces-festooned wings and glided from Japan to The Civilized World. This something comes in, like, a box no larger than an ordinary DVD-case, but don't let its modest size fool you, for when you open that case, you've totally unleashed a world of hurt and misogyny. Have you realized what I'm talking about yet? No? Well aren't you bright. I'm refering, of course, to a game known as "Super Woman Bash Bros" #duh #areyouslowornah?
Super Smash Bros for WiiU (as it is called by the white man) is an abomination, begotten out of the manchild minds of Patriarchal power-fantasy perverts of Asian persuasion - it needs to be banned, like I'm serious, it needs to go, before it totally hurts women everywhere.
Okay, like, I'm gonna slow down for a second, I get really, like, over-expressive when I'm angry. Let me just introduce myself : my name is Anne Gus, I'm a social justice activist, blogger and totally fierce feminist. But that's not all there is to me - I can name like, every console nintendo's made since N64, I absolutely love Zelda (and his girlfriend) and I've got like ALL the Wii games you can think of, so yeah, I guess you could call me a gamer too- and since I'm a girl, I guess I'm a girl gamer, but don't get any ideas, only guys who're not total nerds get to see my Peach #lol #sorry
As a feminist and a gamer, I was so excited for the new Smash Bros game. Like all gamers, I totally love the fighting, the picking characters, the smashing, and the unlocking new foes - and the Bros of course - where would we be without them?I'd go as far as saying that I'm probably in the top 10 biggest fan of the Smash Bros series in America, if not the world. So you can imagine my excitement when my boyfriend Todd came home from the tattoo parlor with a steaming, fresh copy of the game. Like any true Smash Bros person, I plugged in my Wii U machine and got ready to rumble right away.
About there the fun ended. I looked with complete horror on the character selection screen, emblazoned with, like, images of ,totally, like scantily clad women in challenging poses. Metroid sans suit was the worst. The fleshy mounds on her chest were draped in but a thin latex suit, and her rear cleft seemed to be ravenously consuming her pants. Ughhh.
This is the kind of imagery that makes women scared to walk home at night, these are the kind of images that make men think it's okay to rape, these are the kind of pictures that make fugly men think they can talk to me.
Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves for selling their souls just to cater to the sexist whims of white misogynerds with perpetual plumber's cracks and Mountain dew gushing out of their pores - But then again, could I really have expected anything else from a company that's beat the drum of systemic sexism since the 1980's? One thing is for certain, Playstation would never do something like this.
Anyways, I had to select a character, and although I was horrified by what I saw, I chose to play as Samus sans suite - I thought of it as symbolically giving an enslaved woman a chance at performing at the circus for pay, minimal pay, but pay nevertheless. I realized that the only way by which to challenge Nintendo's problematic hatred of women, was to become one of the women they so hate, and, like, beat them at their own game. #strongwoman
So I started smashing and bashing, collecting as many percentages as I could, but I quickly realized that this game was going to get a lot worse on the woman-hating front...
My character was constantly hit, punched, beat and even smashed out of the screen by the other characters, most of them male and by the looks of it, quite privileged. Ummm...How is this allowed? Last time I checked it was 2014, not 1814, and yet one of the biggest game producers in the world allows domestic violence to be shown in their flagship game of the year. This. Is . Not. Okay. Period.
When I play a game as a woman and as a feminist I want to feel safe, tolerant and righteous. I don't want to be exposed to triggering material that makes my experiences as a woman seem trivial. Game makers have a responsibility to make women feel comfortable playing their games, not force them to relive scenes from when they've been victims of physical assault at the hands of men.
But the violence against women isn't even the biggest problem - oh no - what really got me furious is the fact that I lost like every time. You heard me correctly, I lost every single battle, and seeing as I'm a super good player, it's obvious that the game is misogynistically rigged against female characters.
Nintendo obviously has an elaborate plan to subdue women and exclude us from the gaming world. The excessive violence against women, coupled with the fact that I didn't win a single time because my character was female, is symptomatic of the gross sexism that Mr. Myagi (or whatever his name is) and his henchmen at Nintendo continually endorse and even cherish
I propose an immediate, worldwide ban on Smash Bros Brawl. The game is fraught with sexism, violence against women and it makes women lose every battle. This is not okay. I thought I lived in a tolerant, free country, yet this kind of disgusting sexism is allowed on our TV-screens.
Join me, start a revolution, tweet under#BanSmashBros
I'm totally seething right now, I can't believe what I've seen, I wish I'd never opened that game, I wish I'd never slid that sleek disc into that hungry slot, my Christmas and New Years are totally. Fucking. Ruined.
Gaming has hit a new low, and it's really fucking low right now. It's like lower than the age of consent in 1970's Poland, lower than the number of calories Victoria Beckham has put in her body since 2005, lower, even, than I imagine the pants of a man by the name LeBron Tyroneson living in the Bronks to be. (No racist). Sexism in gaming however, has hit a new Pinnacle, and it's on some Mount Everest-level shit. #nolie
Something so vile, so sinister, so base, that it is almost not worth, like, talking about has taken flight, flapped its feaces-festooned wings and glided from Japan to The Civilized World. This something comes in, like, a box no larger than an ordinary DVD-case, but don't let its modest size fool you, for when you open that case, you've totally unleashed a world of hurt and misogyny. Have you realized what I'm talking about yet? No? Well aren't you bright. I'm refering, of course, to a game known as "Super Woman Bash Bros" #duh #areyouslowornah?
Super Smash Bros for WiiU (as it is called by the white man) is an abomination, begotten out of the manchild minds of Patriarchal power-fantasy perverts of Asian persuasion - it needs to be banned, like I'm serious, it needs to go, before it totally hurts women everywhere.
Okay, like, I'm gonna slow down for a second, I get really, like, over-expressive when I'm angry. Let me just introduce myself : my name is Anne Gus, I'm a social justice activist, blogger and totally fierce feminist. But that's not all there is to me - I can name like, every console nintendo's made since N64, I absolutely love Zelda (and his girlfriend) and I've got like ALL the Wii games you can think of, so yeah, I guess you could call me a gamer too- and since I'm a girl, I guess I'm a girl gamer, but don't get any ideas, only guys who're not total nerds get to see my Peach #lol #sorry
As a feminist and a gamer, I was so excited for the new Smash Bros game. Like all gamers, I totally love the fighting, the picking characters, the smashing, and the unlocking new foes - and the Bros of course - where would we be without them?I'd go as far as saying that I'm probably in the top 10 biggest fan of the Smash Bros series in America, if not the world. So you can imagine my excitement when my boyfriend Todd came home from the tattoo parlor with a steaming, fresh copy of the game. Like any true Smash Bros person, I plugged in my Wii U machine and got ready to rumble right away.
About there the fun ended. I looked with complete horror on the character selection screen, emblazoned with, like, images of ,totally, like scantily clad women in challenging poses. Metroid sans suit was the worst. The fleshy mounds on her chest were draped in but a thin latex suit, and her rear cleft seemed to be ravenously consuming her pants. Ughhh.
This is the kind of imagery that makes women scared to walk home at night, these are the kind of images that make men think it's okay to rape, these are the kind of pictures that make fugly men think they can talk to me.
Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves for selling their souls just to cater to the sexist whims of white misogynerds with perpetual plumber's cracks and Mountain dew gushing out of their pores - But then again, could I really have expected anything else from a company that's beat the drum of systemic sexism since the 1980's? One thing is for certain, Playstation would never do something like this.
Anyways, I had to select a character, and although I was horrified by what I saw, I chose to play as Samus sans suite - I thought of it as symbolically giving an enslaved woman a chance at performing at the circus for pay, minimal pay, but pay nevertheless. I realized that the only way by which to challenge Nintendo's problematic hatred of women, was to become one of the women they so hate, and, like, beat them at their own game. #strongwoman
So I started smashing and bashing, collecting as many percentages as I could, but I quickly realized that this game was going to get a lot worse on the woman-hating front...
My character was constantly hit, punched, beat and even smashed out of the screen by the other characters, most of them male and by the looks of it, quite privileged. Ummm...How is this allowed? Last time I checked it was 2014, not 1814, and yet one of the biggest game producers in the world allows domestic violence to be shown in their flagship game of the year. This. Is . Not. Okay. Period.
When I play a game as a woman and as a feminist I want to feel safe, tolerant and righteous. I don't want to be exposed to triggering material that makes my experiences as a woman seem trivial. Game makers have a responsibility to make women feel comfortable playing their games, not force them to relive scenes from when they've been victims of physical assault at the hands of men.
But the violence against women isn't even the biggest problem - oh no - what really got me furious is the fact that I lost like every time. You heard me correctly, I lost every single battle, and seeing as I'm a super good player, it's obvious that the game is misogynistically rigged against female characters.
Nintendo obviously has an elaborate plan to subdue women and exclude us from the gaming world. The excessive violence against women, coupled with the fact that I didn't win a single time because my character was female, is symptomatic of the gross sexism that Mr. Myagi (or whatever his name is) and his henchmen at Nintendo continually endorse and even cherish
I propose an immediate, worldwide ban on Smash Bros Brawl. The game is fraught with sexism, violence against women and it makes women lose every battle. This is not okay. I thought I lived in a tolerant, free country, yet this kind of disgusting sexism is allowed on our TV-screens.
Join me, start a revolution, tweet under#BanSmashBros
