Pepper spray. Here you would be lucky to get pepper sprayed. We have concealed carry here in the Commonwealth of VA, so you could be staring down the barrel of a gun.

Ooh, really?? That's awesome!! I'm glad I got Alan Wake in the HIB. Hopefully I'll enjoy it when I play it in a few years.

Wow. You obviously share the views of Straight Male Gamer. Nobody else can have anything because hetero males need to get all the attention. That's a very 1% attitude; screw the 99. I find that a horribly selfish attitude Langur, so I think I'll stop posting with you.

Minorities have always complained about their social disparity, and always will. How fortunate for you that you will never experience it.

Judging from your avatar, you're prepared for such occasion :P

By the way, today morning, when i was heading back from a store, old lady from the 1st floor opened the door for me. That sexist old hag!

You obviously aren't really reading my posts. I never said my attitude is a %1 attitude or expressed this... And straight male gamer isn't %1 BTW. More like 99%. And I've experienced what it is like to be a minority many times in my life. When people want to make money, they cater to the majority of their customers... Okay? I'm trying to tell you, what is going on with games today, isn't a misogyny and sexist thing but a business thing. And the tropes VS women video tries to make this look like a misogyny and sexist thing when it is not... Just like aliens do not secretly control the Earth and after we die, eat our corpses.

That data has to be wrong otherwise there would be more games out there that cater to both male and females. And tropes VS women shows us that most games cater to straight males.

You are just now starting to realize how inane the situation is?

So you think all these publishing companies are just retarded when it comes to business?

The problem is, she lists these effects and these problems, and she implies that these tropes strengthen them or have other real world effects. This really isn't substantiated any more than the connection between playing violent video games and being violent in real life is substantiated. Which is why it's cheap commentary. It's her speculation, and she passes it on as if it were fact.

As you say, the effect on female gamers is something she hasn't explored, which is why it's mostly missing from the discussion, even though it is IMO the important angle here.

Short answer - yes. which is why we need people like this to highlight the dis-balance.

Well, The Sims have a great female audience, I give you that! :P :P :P

I want out of being a straight male gamer if anyone thinks these type of stories cater to my preferences. Ever felt like being a minority within a supposed "majority" and always have other people speaking for you about what it is you "like" (or should like) when actually you don't (at all)? ;)

This gender stereotyping is just as harmful for men as it is for women.

Do you really want an answer to this? Ok
No, they are not retarded. They think that the only ones playing are teen boys. How many people have been told "You still waste your time with video games? Why? You're an adult now."?
Add to it the following, Game with concept X gets a huge budget, makes a big marketing campaign, sells well. It's obvious that concept X is what gamers need, so let's make more of those.
Game with concept Y gets a smaller budget, smaller marketing campaign, but it still sells. Enough to cover its costs, and make a small profit over that. But the game isn't a best seller.
Will you fund concept X or concept Y for the next game you publish?

Oh, and by concept Y, I meant a first person parkour simulator, like Mirror's Edge. Likely, Mirror's Edge 2 has been spotted on Amazon.

So all these professional business people are retarded to a point, they don't collect data on gamers and just guess, the majority of their customers are straight males who want to be powerful and important knights in shining armor? Then put lots of $$$ into a game, hoping they gets lots of $$$ back? LOL no way.

"What do you mean you didn't watch the football game last night? Why? I do hope that you did watch the Formula One race on Sunday at least, right? Right?"