Depictions of Women in Gaming (and other related issues)

[Goemar]

Would really like Nintendo give the female gamer a better option than Peach though, but I think that's a personal gripe.

um...Samus?`

I mean in a Mario game.

Rayman Legends has... whats her face (hey it's late, sue me) with a helmet. There's like no none-"Girly Girly" (yes -" is fine grammar) playable Mario character. And with how popular whatshername (which is apparently a word, not needing to be corrected - wait, fdsfdf - yes my spell check is on) is in 'Wreck-it-Ralph' (the most pornographic sounding of Disney's films, no Beauty and the Beast doesn't count you sick mofo) and Princess... Brave... from Pixar's Brave there's obviously a 'market' or a gap or a longing for young females to have none super stereotypical female characters.

You play Mario Kart as a young girl, you want to be a female character because, I don't know - whatever the science is behind that (before guy posts saying "I normally play as a female character in some-game" - yeah that's nice, I don't care - you know what I mean) and all you get is princesses who are very girly (Peach apologising for overtaking people and generally sounding useless) or Birdo who is actually a man and well, isn't human (sorry Birdo).

It's one thing to represent women as walking eye candy, which I think most people know isn't realistic. Now I'm not saying that isn't an issue but surely it's quite dangerous to represent women as useless. Yes Ivy may have anti-gravity tits of aweso- erm- awfulness but at least she doesn't apologise for kicking people.

I don't know, it's late (hell I'm interrupting my own post with inner-external-dialogue) but I just kind of think that maybe if people grow up with games where the male/female characters are more balanced then we wouldn't get to the point of Dragon's Crown's Witch being a bouncy spectacle or stupidity because it wouldn't be what's expected or just "a video game thing" parents shrug there shoulders at when they see it.

Or I'm talking shit - who knows.