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[TA]

So, the Gamespot review for GTA 5 was written by a woman, mentions the game is a bit misogynistic - in that there are basically zero female characters, and what depictions exist are in the format of billboards for perfume so you can "smell like a bitch" and the like - and gave it a 9/10.  The internet is reacting predictably.  I thought this was a nice one, from the reviewer's twitter feed:


We're still on day zero, though, so this one's gonna get worse before it gets better.

[Friday]

itt gamers compete with racists against brown miss america for who is the bigger ignorant shithead

[Classic]

itt we should not diminish the large intersection of these two sets

[Friday]

"not all gamers are racist, and not all gamers are women-hating fuckshits, but they're frequently both"

[jsnlxndrlv]

Man, I wish I'd been aware of all this when the local news interviewed me at GameStop earlier today about the controversy surrounding GTA. I've been trotting out the old "violent tendencies and violent media are demonstrably correlatable but no evidence of causation exists" arguments, and now I'm going to look out of touch!

[Brentai]

Shhh, don't tell anybody that a very male writer said the exact same thing in the New York Times.

Also Newbie if they didn't bother to correct you I get the feeling you gave them the exact soundbite they were looking for.

[Kazz]

Why would Gamespot care if you cancelled your GTAV order?

[Friday]

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume any game where you can fuck a hooker, shoot her, and then run her over with a motorcycle to get your money back is a tad, you know.

Purfume ads or no.

[Disposable Ninja]

Friday why would you need to run her over when you already shot her?

That's just overkill.

[Friday]

I like to make sure

[Beat Bandit]

Are there really no gay hookers yet? That is pretty sexist.

[Mongrel]

Shhh, don't tell anybody that a very male writer said the exact same thing in the New York Times.

“Movies are about telling the same lies over and over again,” Michael says at one point. “You know, good beats evil, things happen for a reason, attractive people are interesting.”

Video games tell their own lies to their players: you’re powerful, you’re smart, you’re important, your problems can be solved if you just keep trying. And Grand Theft Auto V is one of the most beautiful, seductive lies yet uttered by our youngest creative medium.

Heh.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Turns out I was worried about nothing; the local piece is pretty much just a view of the situation from 10,000 feet. The issues particular to GTAV aren't even mentioned. About the worst thing that came of it for me was that apparently transcription of my speech uses far fewer commas than I would have, were I doing it myself.

[Brentai]

"In this GTA V the protagonist eats shoots and leaves."

I think the big issue here is that GTA looks like it's running behind the Saint's Row series in its swing back to cartoony fun, and that series has not only let you play a female character for the past 3 installments, it also has major female characters as usually your most competent lieutenants but please please please please please do not tell Anita Sarkeesian how prone they all are to being abducted.

[Bal]

That's because GTA ISN'T swinging back to cartoony fun, and is sticking with (mostly) serious crime drama plots. The player character isn't some interchangeable psychopath just doing whatever he's told, and frankly that's been more and more the case since Vice City. If you would like to customize a character in GTA V, feel free to make use of the gigantic online mode that will be launching on October 1st that allows you to make any kind of character, male of female, that you like.

[Bongo Bill]

Why would Gamespot care if you cancelled your GTAV order?

Probably this person doesn't know that Gamespot and Gamestop are two different companies or even two different words.

[Stush]

Why would Gamespot care if you cancelled your GTAV order?

Probably this person doesn't know that Gamespot and Gamestop are two different companies or even two different words.

I nearly choked on a tim tam when I read this. Funniest thing i've seen today.

[Thad]

I was thinking they were trying to get Rockstar to go all Kane and Lynch on the review.

Because, you know.  A couple of angry guys in a comments thread are going to make GTA5 sell poorly.

[Pacobird]

So, the Gamespot review for GTA 5 was written by a woman, mentions the game is a bit misogynistic - in that there are basically zero female characters, and what depictions exist are in the format of billboards for perfume so you can "smell like a bitch" and the like - and gave it a 9/10.  The internet is reacting predictably.  I thought this was a nice one, from the reviewer's twitter feed:


We're still on day zero, though, so this one's gonna get worse before it gets better.

Vaguely ironic monniker, there

[R^2]

You need a good, dark valkirye bread if you're going to make a decent Nordic-style Rjuben sandwich.