Welp, time to stop visiting IGN

Disorderly-Conduct · 2013-05-31T20:56:02+00:00

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I used to frequent IGN until I got sick of their feminist-oriented editorials, then I moved on to Kotaku (imagine how that turned out), and now I'm at Shacknews. It was going fine until they published an article about the Hawkeye Initiative, which boiled down to how an employee at a game company was happy with everything about her job (her own words) except for a single ad poster on the wall of one of their games that had a somewhat provocatively dressed woman on it. So she had a male alternative designed (that was way more provocatively dressed than the female) and put up next to the original poster, and the CEO ended up taking them down and thanking her for "opening his eyes".

I am currently looking for a decent source for video game news, if anyone has suggestions.

Nomenimion · 2013-05-31T20:16:02+00:00

Don't like the games? Don't play 'em. It's that simple.

Riesea · 2013-06-01T04:43:24+00:00

It's ign, do you really need another reason to not visit them?

nononoitsfine · 2013-05-31T20:12:44+00:00

If she's really a gamer and loves gaming and all that, why did she need all that money to buy that pile of games she was photographed with? (The answer, of course, is that she's not. She's an ill-informed outsider with a blatant agenda using poorly-made arguments to attack gaming, and by extension, men.)

KingOfEggsAndBacon · 2013-06-01T01:15:22+00:00

I already stopped visiting Rock Paper Shotgun.

Only ever watched IGN's reviews on YouTube, but it seems like that will have to stop, as well.

Damn it, now I am only left with Eurogamer and PcGamer.

Edit:

"Sexual assault and violence against women is still at epidemic levels affecting about 1 out of every 4 women and girls. On the economic side, women still face significant social and systemic barriers; only 15% of property is owned by women and women still only earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to men. In the gaming industry in particular only about 11% of developers are women."

Same old lies and myths, it is not even funny.

somekidonfire · 2013-05-31T20:46:05+00:00

I'm still going to visit IGN. It was only a freelance writer anyway.

SlimThugga · 2013-05-31T22:33:12+00:00

Any half serious gamer wouldn't give a shit about IGN from the get-go.

KingOfEggsAndBacon · 2013-06-01T01:41:15+00:00

I just saw the video where the girl asked why there is no option to play as a woman in the new Call of Duty game.

It is a fact that women on average are not as strong (not to say weak) and that they have less stamina than men.

So it is really unlikely that they would fill a vacant spot with a female soldier if there is a male soldier for it.

I am waiting for the day that feminists demand a 50% women's quota for special forces units. Because it clearly should not matter that you put the top applicants into these teams, but have a gender balanced selection, right?

She goes on to say that the idea that "a girl being too fragile to be shot in the face is sexist" - lady, EVERYONE is too fragile to be shot in the face. It is just proven that people dislike to see violence against women. Just remember God of War. A few scenes of violence against women and people loose their minds. Ignoring the thousands and thousands of males being slaughtered by the hereo.

The interviewer mentions Zero Dark Thirty as an example of strong female lead. But the woman in Zero Dark Thirty did not face hard physical challenges.

I do understand her sentiment, but I always find it strange when I see an unrealistic representation of women in military.

Muffinizer1 · 2013-05-31T23:34:21+00:00

And the men are totally potrayed as realistic as well, and never set unreasonable strength standards ore are shown as totally disposable. I honestly don't care about either, I think a game should show its characters how it wants, but its not just females in video games.

2013-06-01T04:02:54+00:00

I don't really care that women want better protagonists. I just want them to start making these games themselves instead of taking the easy way out and force men to change their games for them.

Stop complaining and be the strong independent woman you say you are.

BobbyTomale · 2013-05-31T21:38:01+00:00

Why do people continue to let feminists attempt to sanitize every form of entertainment?

Lawtonfogle · 2013-05-31T23:04:43+00:00

Yeah, that full page ad is going to keep me from going back willingly. Or was there something else I was supposed to see but never got to?

Title	Welp, time to stop visiting IGN
Author	BaconPit
Upvotes	28
Comments	53
Date	May 31, 2013 7:59 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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