Timeline for Questions about the portrayal of women in games
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:09 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 28, 2011 at 15:07 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | This answer is disingenuous. The core question is not Will I like this game?, it's Will this game offend me? Now, as has rightly been pointed out, what offends different people varies, which is why it's important that the question lay out a definition for what is offensive in this context. This question does so. Answers can be substantiated and backed up, and there can be a 'right' answer for any given individual. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:53 | comment | added | FAE | @Oak I disagree that it's very answerable. That seems to imply that the question is a simple one with a simple answer, and I disagree on both those points. It certainly is a real problem, however, I don't feel that Gaming.SE is the place to discuss whether or not a game's depiction of women is sexist or not because it is out of our scope. See my answer above. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 1:19 | comment | added | Oak | I also agree with Matthew and Dave. This is a real problem. It's very answerable. We've also had similar questions before and I don't recall them being debated. And I strongly disagree that it can be reworded into "will I like this game"; he can certainly dislike that game even if we dispel his fears about this particular aspect of it, for example. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 0:44 | comment | added | Dave McClelland | @MatthewRead Agreed | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 0:43 | comment | added | Matthew Read | @DaveMcClelland I totally agree -- but it's still a real problem. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 0:41 | comment | added | Dave McClelland | @MatthewRead "Too sexual" is subjective. What two people find too sexual won't be the same. There have been other questions similar to "is this game appropriate for my child?" which I also find subjective. The ESRB rating system provides guidelines and an estimated appropriate age, but it's trying to provide fixed boundaries for a sliding scale. I feel that all of these types of questions are too subjective | |
| Dec 27, 2011 at 23:19 | comment | added | Matthew Read | I'm not so convinced that not knowing whether the game is too seuxal isn't a real problem. It might not be a problem related to gameplay -- you can still progress if you somehow don't figure it out -- but it's akin to a plot question. You can be legitimately confused/ignorant, and that's a problem by my definition. +1 though since I agree that can be viewed as a sort of recommendation. | |
| Dec 27, 2011 at 23:07 | comment | added | Raven Dreamer Mod |
The fact that this question has been in an ongoing tag edit war for tags like woman and ratings definitely doesn't help your case in this matter. As it is, the former presence of those 'joke' tags has skewed what may have been intended as a meaningful question into off-topic territory. I agree with Strix - the question should stay closed.
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| Dec 27, 2011 at 22:53 | history | answered | Invader Skoodge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |