Everybody Yell!!!

I'm not interested in starting any sort of an argument or war, but I have been tasked to give my clearly sexist male opinion. 

After watching two videos, damsel in distress and women as background decoration part two, I feel like I need to take a shower. The lack of any substantive information leads me to wonder why, for academic purpose we are watching this entrepreneurial, give her credit, hack. It appears that Anna has raised 1.5 million dollars two years ago to do some scholarly investigation into the role of gender and video games and has done nothing but buy some games and begin spouting feministic opinion. And at a cost of nearly 25 grand per 30 minutes she is one of the highest paid actress I’ve ever hear of. After checking her site for some sort of background information so as to understand this object role dichotomy she keeps referring to, I can find nothing other than some TED talks and some Amazon links to some books, that she doesn’t site, and some small research that after reading sounds like an unbelievable moron. And the only study that was kind of of a study disagrees with her entire premise. Claiming that people, all 200 or so of them, were actually more aware of sexual norms after the game and not less aware as Anna claims.

Now, despite the poorly done videos there is something to be said about the role of sex in video games. To me, based on the current games she discussed, Assassins Creed and so on, are simply representation of cultural norms. AC is set during a time when prostitution was a legitimate way for women to make money. And as we are all aware men like attractive women, we are wired that way, and women as best I can tell by their dress like to feel attractive. I have no research, like Anna, so this is just me positing my own OPINON. You may disagree and that’s cool. What I will say is that there is a huge cultural difference in how women are portrayed in Asian communities than how they are portrayed in the United States. The idea that men get away with rape and murder of women by arguing in court is absurd. There is zero factual data to support this. Women in film and games, for the most part, play the roles that they play in real life, housewives, mothers, sex workers. These are the roles that women have chosen for themselves and for the most part have not been forced into them.  This is what I took away from the videos again this is my opinion maybe I’m completely wrong, however maybe I am not.