Sentences with phrase «sexist games»

If a game studios decides to accept that criticism and focus on less sexist games, they're simply making a choice.

Of course, the inverse is those sexist games that convey to women what they should be like and what they should do; the moral of the story instructs the child how to behave and what to do.

But results showed male players who identified closely with male characters in violent - sexist games were the ones who showed the least empathy.

After playing a violent, sexist game, these male players reported lower levels of sympathy and compassion (compared to those who played games without a sexist component) when shown a photo illustration depicting an adolescent girl who had been physically abused by an adolescent boy.

It's also the very first scene in a line of many which is likely to spark controversy thanks to people immediately pointing fingers and declaring that this is a sexist game.

Ultimately Spirit Tracks suffers from a predictable structure, graphical slowdown, occasionally sexist game mechanics, and a train that — while usually awesome — can also be boring and hard to use to quickly get to specific places.

Not exact matches

I wrote recently about why Hydro One was wrong to fire an employee over the crudely sexist way he and his friends treated a female journalist at a soccer game.

The passionate immediacy of the Handmaid's witness is muffled in a talk spiced with «harmless» sexist jests that should give the game away.

We Are the Boys from Old Florida, the song Florida fans sing during every game, has been deemed sexist by the school's Committee on Sexism and Homophobia.

This was just another chapter in the Big Baller Brand book, but what truly demands attention is LaVar's sexist and disrespectful tirade about the female official directly following the game:

Trolls are marking her «factual feminist» videos — debunking myths like the «wage gap» and challenging the notion that video games are sexist — as «objectionable.»

Other participants played the games Half Life 1 or Half Life 2, which are violent but do not portray women in a sexual or sexist manner.

But males who really identified with their characters in the sexist, violent games didn't feel as much empathy for the victim,» said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University.

Bushman said it was significant that males who played one of the Half Life games — which were violent but didn't have a sexist component — didn't show the same lack of empathy as those who played the GTA games that combined sexism and violence.

Results showed that male players who strongly identified with their character in the sexist and violent games showed the least empathy.

If Duke Nukem ever feels like bringing a fun and enjoyable game alongside his cavalcade of sexist innuendo, he'll be welcomed into my gaming library.

One of the many Family Guy core cast members on show, Kunis (Friends With Benefits) once again shows how game for a laugh she is, but is sadly left on the sidelines a little, buried in amongst the sexist japes and a somewhat predictable plot.

Gillan is particularly funny in how she turns the generically bad - ass video - game heroine on its head, providing the movie's most pointed criticism toward some of the medium's sexist trends within her performance.

Sure, there are some racist, sexist, squeaky - voiced mouth - breathers with bodies composed of two parts Mountain Dew and three parts puberty juices, but the vast majority are ordinary people who simply live for the game and don't care about immature bullshit.

However the small downside to this is that it would feature a female lead, and this obviously isn't a problem, of course not it's not like the world thinks of us gamers as sexist misogynist's right?

The games industry is trying to break away from its predominantly sexist appearance to the outside world.

They thought making all gamers look like misogynistic, sexist, women hating pigs would be better then all their shady stuff coming to light and hurting their reputation, things which could cost them their jobs.

Producing games that are «female - friendly» or «gay - friendly» is a sexist act in and of itself.

I appreciated the conversations this game kicked off about the difference between sexy and sexist, exaggerated and exploitative, Japan and the West.

This episode explores the ways in which sexist, racist stereotypes about Black women and tribal cultures that date back for centuries are often still perpetuated today in representations of women from indigenous and tribal cultures in video games.

But please, when streaming our games, refrain from making racist, sexist, homophobic — or any kind of stupid, bigoted, dumb - ass discriminatory comments on top of them.

Hopefully, this will be successful sales wise and it prove to the sexist short sighted publishers who turned it down that your game can have a female lead and be successful.

As sexist as many male gamers were back then, everyone seemed to respect Scorpia, even when they disagreed with her.

In any case, «Does this game look a bit rubbish» and «Does this game look sexist» are separate questions.

You'll usually have to deal with some pretty sexist things, so most girl gamers I know prefer to be less involved in the gaming community, preferring to pop up when there's news or a release.

Duke does not hate women, he is a sexist and lowering the score that much due to it really shows the quality of this site's content where you glorify extreme violence like in Hotline Miami 2 and don't mention the oversexualization of women (most look like children) in anime games.

We covered a lot, from the recent uproar over the sexist nature of gaming to how to be a games journalist to the imminent closure of Nintendo Power magazine.

That game couldn't have been more sexist if Adam had made Samus wear an apron and nothing else.

It's currently the more popular game shop in our metro area (the grognards and openly sexist folks have their own shop not too far away).

Lining with this, Forbes» contributor Erik Kain recently pointed out that the game has been deemed as a sexist affair by critics, who claim Bayonetta was designed specifically for the «male gaze.»

In the past decade this has led to shifts in the meta - narratives of games, away from the sexist trope of saving the princess, and towards more complex ideas of redemption, guilt and self - discovery.

So critics who are choosing to focus on Lara Croft are continuously singling out one character (most likely due to her popularity among gamers and non-gamers alike) when that character isn't even close to the worst, most sexist video game character out there.

I don't see how this criticism on how games can be sexist and sometimes racist equals to a demand on your view.

How about claiming that gamers are «evil» and «sexist» and «bigoted» and other crap, based on the same insane troll logic that you laughed at back when Jack Thompson was the enemy of the moment?

Quantic Dream, the studio behind cinematic adventure games like Heavy Rain and the upcoming Detroit: Become Human, is accused of having a toxic work environment that involves sexual misconduct, as well as sexist, racist, and homophobic comments aimed at its staff.

But this piece isn't about whether or not it's sexist to only show women characters in games in their underwear (because I hope the answer is obvious).

Rosenberg seems to suggest it's because she's female — and it's hard to see that as anything other than a sexist approach, an assumption that men can't lose themselves in stories with female protagonists and / or that female gamers simply don't exist.

Describing the character as simply sexist removes it from any context of her in - game actions: rather than spoiling the plot of Bayonetta 2, let's consider what she does in the first game.

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