No matter where you look
these days it seems someone is offended about
something and political correctness advocates seem to be lurking around
every corner waiting to pounce on the next slip up. Gaming hasn't been
able escape this social spotlight and tends to attract controversy like
moths to a flame. While most of these complaints amount to little more
than grandstanding, the cry that women are treated as objects is one
that seems to have a little more substance than most. Join Medawky as
he dives into this subject and tries to separate the fact from the
fiction in "Gamers Gone Wild - Are Women Objectified in MMOGs"
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isn’t so much the package that is offensive but rather the
packaging. Scaling your avatars to Barbie like proportions
doesn’t feel
out of the ordinary in an over the top environment where everything is
larger than life, but having it all on display can raise the ire of
even the most liberal fans.
these days it seems someone is offended about
something and political correctness advocates seem to be lurking around
every corner waiting to pounce on the next slip up. Gaming hasn't been
able escape this social spotlight and tends to attract controversy like
moths to a flame. While most of these complaints amount to little more
than grandstanding, the cry that women are treated as objects is one
that seems to have a little more substance than most. Join Medawky as
he dives into this subject and tries to separate the fact from the
fiction in "Gamers Gone Wild - Are Women Objectified in MMOGs"
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isn’t so much the package that is offensive but rather the
packaging. Scaling your avatars to Barbie like proportions
doesn’t feel
out of the ordinary in an over the top environment where everything is
larger than life, but having it all on display can raise the ire of
even the most liberal fans.
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