Mmmm, Girl Gamer Videogame Wanky Goodness.
So a friend links me to a very nice article: Genderplay: Successes and Failures in Character Designs for Videogames.

The article itself, for the subject matter, is almost completely free of wank. The journalist posts on the bouncy busted girls of DoAXBV or Lara Croft not as being 'bad' or any such thing: She comments that the *marketting* of said games is one that aimed primarially at guys, and this may have robbed them of some players. Never once does she get feminist: She says that most of these games are still fun to play, but because they're aimed mostly at guys, they're not gonna get full audience. Or she says that the inclusion of bizarrely oversexed characters can sometimes ruin the mood they're going for (The jiggly breasts of the barkeep in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance spoiling the horror movie feel, for example, by making the audience laugh).

Cool, I thought. A well thought-out essay on girls in video games that ISN'T scarily feminist. Nice.

And then I scrolled down.

The first few comments (Which I can't link individually, alas) were intelligent or at least agreeable. But soon...

"I'm somewhat tired of people complaining about Phalic objects. Yes a joystick looks like a penis, but would you rather have a controller shaped like a vagina? "

"go play with your dolls. and make me a sandwich!"

"i think many games are for women. for instance, extreme beach volleyball has naked guys in it. so there. "

"YOU WILL ALL BURN IN HELL FOR PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. ALL OF YOU. DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE LIVES!!"

Between the guys wanking on how IF it had naked guys she'd be okay, the trolls, and the people trying to dig up details of her personal life to claim she has no right to try to 'desexualize' games (as if that's what she's doing)... I think I need to go wash my face. I can hardly see for all the jism.

EDIT: I meant 'militantly feminist', not 'feminist'. I need more sleep. >_>