Comments | lotusice: We're all in this longboat together.

lotusice

We're all in this longboat together.

Jul 07, 2011 13:11

The road to Helheim is paved with good intentions.Call me Sela. Call me Rusilla. Don't tell me I can't pick up a shield or a spear, don't tell me I prefer kitchen or hearth, don't tell me I want to play a "different" game, or that I'd be more willing to work in a company that caters to my inherent feminine need to have children ( Read more... )

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dorianegray July 7 2011, 19:18:21 UTC

Hear, hear!

lotusice July 8 2011, 00:19:35 UTC

clarentine July 7 2011, 19:18:36 UTC

Yes!

lotusice July 8 2011, 00:19:51 UTC

:D :D

malkatsheva July 7 2011, 21:35:54 UTC

Word up, girrrrrl. Nice. You know why we need more women in gaming? Because if I have to see one more game called Cooking Mama or Imagine Babysitters I think I'll vomit right there on the floor at GameStop.

You rock completely.

lotusice July 8 2011, 00:21:17 UTC

Aww, thank you.

I had a guy argue with me about this today. I had this moment of wanting to say "ZOMG you want my female presence and input and then when I show up and give it to you, you don't freaking listen!"

But, yanno.

I promise you I will never make you a game about cooking or babysitting. Ever.

barbarienne July 8 2011, 16:08:11 UTC

How about one where the babysitter is threatened by killers trying to get in the house (or already in the house--hello, old stupid horror story), and KICKS THEIR ASSES.

Yeah, or a game where Mom stomps heads might be fun. Or worse--kills children. Can you imagine the cries of horror! "This is in appropriate!" Because it's perfectly okay to have men running around killing scantily-clad women, but not okay to have women killing children.

(Not that I am in any way advocating that women kill children. But isn't that what video games are for? To let people do in imitation things they would never do in reality? Don't all mothers at some point imagine killing their children? And then 99.999999% of them laugh it off, or at least say, "Get a grip" to themselves, and dismiss the idea.)

dafydd July 7 2011, 23:05:11 UTC

So, basically, you're saying that Leisure Suit Larry ~wasn't~ the epitome of gaming, after all??? ;D

(grin, duck, run...)

lotusice July 8 2011, 00:21:41 UTC

No, but it was fun.

I cannot take that face seriously.

dafydd July 8 2011, 02:31:03 UTC

The sloth? :D That's why I asked a good friend of mine to make an icon of it for me... ;)

dakini_grl July 8 2011, 03:19:25 UTC

We're in the longboat with you, picking our enemies' corpses out of our teeth. We're on the ice, we're in the locker room, drinking beer with you.

Oh how I love those phrases. I am often in these places when I'm at the gym, when I talk about lifting, when I show up at a meet. It's a territory where women are... new.

Well said. Well said.

lotusice July 8 2011, 14:09:52 UTC

:D

It's new territory to forge, for sure. Mentally and literally.

dakini_grl July 8 2011, 15:09:23 UTC

I also think you capture that we're all in this semi-aware state, that we can grasp difference and are less willing to tie it to the stereotypical issues of race, gender, age. Maybe that's the gamer's perspective coming through.