Topic: More sexism in Smash Bros!!!

[Abnormal Freak]

I'll just leave this here, as they say.

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=spiderwomans_ass

Spider-Woman's Big Ass is a Big Deal!

[uzo]

Some developers, such as myself, care about giving both genders a fair shake. I made a big dumb video game about hamsters, but we got some gender equality going on here.

While not blatantly stated by the game itself (though hinted at), Raye is canonically the lead character between the 'heroes'.

[Ratty]

SNIP

Lol Bill O'Reilly is a vagina.
Yeah Maddox is right on this one, the outrage on that picture was way out of proportion and obviously manufactured. Lots of people jumping on the rage bandwagon with "Me to!" didn't have a moral leg to stand on as he says.

However that one nontroversy doesn't invalidate the concern that too often in games are women there simply as decoration. I don't see anything wrong with sexual characters but what's wrong is limiting choice and ONLY showing women (or any other large group of people) as having little to no value beyond sex. Or as I said before always forcing players with female avatars (I'm talking about what are supposed to be blank-slate avatars here) to sexualize their characters for a mechanical advantage, as happens with armor in MMOs.

And again, there's a difference between fantasizing about BEING someone and fantasizing about having sex with them, and this is usually pretty plain in artistic representation. Most of the people I've seen pointing out rediculous portrayals of women (and men) in art like this aren't so much angry as amused and surprised artists do this. http://boobsdontworkthatway.tumblr.com/

[Dracula9]

As a pale flabby hairy guy, I can in fact confirm that wearing victoria secret underwear has boosted by sex appeal by at least 2%.

God bless you, Hero. I never get tired of your antics.