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Bro, is that a hole? (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Seems like the kind of game Dankpods would play.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What was the original game actually shown to her that led to that video clip? Who chose the game, etc?

Meming this is totally justified though. You could easily say that about any and all entertainment media formats without even looking very hard for examples. Its just without knowing the original context I can't help but feel the woman got the short end of the stick with whatever show that was from.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

GTAV, a scene at the Vanilla Unicorn strip club specifically

It's... A really fucking stupid thing to bitch about specifically in that game, honestly. Of course a strip club objectifies women, and of course a game about criminality and the seedy underworld will have one

[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 days ago (19 children)

John Wick is a movie about criminality and the seedy underworld, and there's no scene where John Wick gets a lap dance. There are women who appear to be sex workers, and John Wick murders their bosses. The audience isn't invited to participate in the objectification, the audience is invited to hate the antagonist for objectifying women and wish for justice.

There's nothing wrong with a game about robbing banks, because most people don't rob banks, and a video game isn't going to give them ideas. But a video game where you pretend to be a misogynist can teach dangerous habits, because that behaviour is easy to bring out of the game.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the people sending death threats to Anita Sarkeesian for saying games should objectify women less, are the people who went on to storm the capital to try and install a fascist dictator.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You're smart enough to understand that games depicting banks robbery won't lead to an increase in real life bank robbery, but somehow you're convinced a game with a strip club can teach dangerous habits? I usually run all red lights when I play GTA, how do you think that has affected my real life driving? I played an evil karma playthrough in fallout3, am i a psychotic person in real life? Do you have a complete list of behaviors people have a hard time separating from video games?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's funny how this argument puts sexism and the objectification of women, unfortunately very common and normalized types of behavior, on the same level with behavior that's psychotic and fucking lunatic.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25681166

Given that video games typically feature even less diverse and more objectified representations of women than traditional mainstream media, we predicted that there would be relationships between video game consumption and negative beliefs and attitudes about women. In this study, we conducted a survey (N = 351) of male and female adults and used structural equation modeling to analyze relationships among video game consumption, trait interpersonal aggression, ambivalent sexism, and first-order (percentage of false rape accusations) and second-order cultivation effects (RMA). We found support for the hypothesized cultivation model, indicating a relationship between video game consumption and RMA via interpersonal aggression and hostile sexism. Although these findings cannot be interpreted causally, we discuss the implications of these associations and future directions for research.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28408891

Research has indicated that many video games are saturated with stereotypes of women and that these contents may cultivate sexism. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between video game exposure and sexism for the first time in a large and representative sample. Our aim was also to measure the strength of this association when two other significant and well-studied sources of sexism, television exposure and religiosity, were also included in a multivariate model. A representative sample of 13520 French youth aged 11-19 years completed a survey measuring weekly video game and television exposure, religiosity, and sexist attitudes toward women. Controlling for gender and socioeconomic level, results showed that video game exposure and religiosity were both related to sexism. Implications of these results for future research on sexism in video games are discussed.

We have a correlation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Correlation is not causation.

Or did you fail your very first science class?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So depicting violence is fine because people don't do those violent things. Except people will do violent things (like Jan 6) but when that happens it's because they they saw a lap dance being depicted?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

She's watching a clip of GTA5 that takes place in a strip club.

This was a BuzzFeed video, Claudia Restrepo was a writer for Oscar Hates Sexism, and the video was something like "feminists play grand theft Auto"

The scenes were specifically chosen to illicit a reaction. I can't find the original video but from what I recall, were some of the worst in the game.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago

Yes, games about my instinctual longing for the mines. ⛏️

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago (4 children)

My favorite male fantasy that games allow me to realize is that of becoming a successful man despite not executing any meaningful work.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ah, CEO sim, my fave.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Hey now, I said no meaningful work, not evil bullshit

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No, no. Landlord simulator.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Civilization series AKA dictator simulator!

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