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Game is perceived to be sexist due to the fact that male protagonist must rescue female from the forces of bad.\u00a0 In an attempt to nullify the perceived sexism, the game is re-created (plagiarized) with the male and female roles reversed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026and this is considered NOT sexist how?<\/span><\/p>\n Murdering a murderer for committing murder doesn\u2019t solve anything.\u00a0 In the end, you still have someone who committed murder that is still alive and standing in the end, and is technically probably wanted by the authorities.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little extreme of an analogy but I think it\u2019s valid; people who hack video games they think are sexist, and make a game where females rescue males aren\u2019t solving anything either; in the end, they\u2019ve produced a sexist game themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the last few weeks, there\u2019s been some buzz on the interwebs about sexism in video games, and two particular instances where people have hacked some classic Nintendo games in an attempt to fight an imaginary fight against sexism in video games.\u00a0 One guy hacked\u00a0Donkey Kong<\/em>, and reversed the roles of Mario and Pauline, so that the player plays as Pauline who has to jump barrels, hammer living fireballs, and climb ladders to rescue Mario, who has been kidnapped by Donkey Kong.\u00a0 A week later, someone hacked\u00a0The Legend of Zelda<\/em>, so that you play through the entire game as Princess Zelda, in the quest to gather the pieces of the Triforce and defeat Ganon and rescue Link.<\/span><\/p>\n What we have here are people attempting to fight against\u00a0perceived<\/em>\u00a0misogyny\u00a0<\/strong>by employing\u00a0misandry<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pauline rescuing Mario and Zelda rescuing Link are now sexist towards men.\u00a0 People seem to be conveniently ignoring this trope while they\u2019re championing these plagiarists for hacking classic video games \u201cfor educational purposes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n They may think that they\u2019re fighting the good fight and that they\u2019re doing great deeds of reversing the roles, but they\u2019re really not accomplishing anything but being sexist in their own right.\u00a0 Sure, they might open some eyes that video games, much like the history of well, the world, has always been a little male dominated, but in doing so, they\u2019re kind of being sexist in their own ways, too.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t necessarily make it right.<\/span><\/p>\n I know I come off as pretty chauvinistic in my writing when I want to be, but when it really comes down to it, I\u2019ve got no problem with strong women.\u00a0 Strong women are awesome, and it\u2019s appealing to see when women are capable of displaying their strengths; without the chip on their shoulder that it\u2019s because they\u2019re a woman that they\u2019re succeeding.<\/span><\/p>\n This whole criticism of the video game industry as being misogynic is kind of stupid, in my opinion.\u00a0 Sure, the video game industry is kind of a boy\u2019s club, but what still isn\u2019t in today\u2019s society?\u00a0 Look at politicians, which are still vastly male-dominated.\u00a0 Look at the recent religious events, where the entire Catholic Church has a conclave full of priests and cardinals and wannabe popes that are all male.\u00a0 The work and contributions that female politicians and nuns do are no less important than that of what the males do, but the rationale to why the males are the ones in power is simply, to say the least, historic.<\/span><\/p>\n Hacking existing video games and reversing the sexism accomplishes nothing.\u00a0 If these people really want to make an impact in the video game industry,\u00a0they need to create their own games<\/em>.\u00a0 And if they\u2019re smart, they create games that aren\u2019t necessarily overly misandric or philogynistic, but more conveying of equality and balance between the sexes.<\/span><\/p>\n However, it\u2019s not like games like that don\u2019t already exist; take the original\u00a0Resident Evil<\/em>\u00a0for example.\u00a0 You have the choice to play as either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield.\u00a0 Picking one results in the other being the captive in need of rescue, and throughout each character\u2019s playthrough, they have someone of the opposite sex to assist them; Jill gets the subservient Barry Burton, while Chris gets the subservient Rebecca Chambers to assist them.<\/span><\/p>\n But let\u2019s forget good examples like this in pursuit of an agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n Personally, I think far too much time is being expended in pointing out how some people think the video game industry is misogynistic, and not enough time is going into actually doing something about it.\u00a0 I think if more progressive games were created with more equality and less perceived sexism about them, and actually manage to get some degree of saturation in the market, then things might take care of themselves.\u00a0 After all, lots of video games are still all about telling stories, and by getting more men and women to work together in writing stories and characters, would there be any chance for less perceived sexism in the end products.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Game is perceived to be sexist due to the fact that male protagonist must rescue female from the forces of bad.\u00a0 In an attempt to nullify the perceived sexism, the game is re-created (plagiarized) with the male and female roles reversed. \u2026and this is considered NOT sexist how? 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