This commercial has been playing constantly for the past few months, and it drives me up a wall.

1. She ignores her friends with whom she’s having coffee to preen for a stranger.

     Woman: “That’s a nice argument for deficit spending, but…  Ooh, man!  Drop everything!”

     Woman’s Friend: “But what about your career?”

     Woman: “BLASPHEMER!”

2.  Her solution for getting his attention is by having blindingly white teeth,  instead of, oh I dunno, perhaps saying, “Hello”?

    Woman’s Friend: “Why don’t you offer to buy him a coffee?”

    Woman: “Because he might think I’m a slattern who can fend for             herself?  Who would want to marry someone like that?”

3.  Who would want to date, let alone marry, someone who’s so shallow that they judge you based on the colour of your bone structure?

      Man’s friend: “Why don’t you go say ‘hi’?”

      Man: “Ew, no.  Have you seen the colour of her teeth?  I bet you don’t   check the teeth before buying a horse, either.”

4.  Call me crazy, but someone who fantasizes about getting married and having children before even knowing my name would result in a perfect cut-out silhouette of my body in the nearest wall, leaving only a puff of smoke behind me.

     Woman’s Friend: “Why don’t you try seeing if you anything in common   first?  Like maybe attraction to the opposite gender?”

     Woman: “Nonsense.  My teeth shine brightly enough to turn anyone       straight!”

"At E3, Sexism Still An Issue"

fucknovideogames:

This article states the blatantly obvious, but I wanted to bring up some stuff.

1. There were at least some women product demonstrators at E3 who had to wear badges calling them “Booth Babes” as part of their uniforms. I don’t think anyone has written about this on major sites, unsurprisingly, but that has got to be pretty fucking degrading.

2. This article lists Snail Games, Hyperkin and Atlus as still featuring scantily clad models at their booths. So, fuck those guys.

3. The line “For every female protagonist like Bayonetta on display at E3, there were dozens of Mario Brothers,” makes me laugh. For every hypersexualized woman there were dozens of unsexualized men. This article doesn’t seem very aware of that issue. (Note: I am aware there are women who find Bayonetta empowering. I am not debating that.)

4. Battlefield 4 will apparently let you be a woman for part of the time in their single-player, but you can’t be a woman in the multiplayer. I bring this up because the fans of the Battlefield franchise are always so eager to inform me that with that series, “The single player doesn’t matter. It’s all about the multiplayer.” I get the impression that EA agrees, thus reflecting on only featuring women in the campaign as a low-risk “progressive” move for the company to hide behind. A token woman in a secondary role to deflect criticism.

5. David Cage: “I really enjoy writing for women.” … “I like female characters because they can be very strong and very tough, but they can cry and be very sensitive. They have a palette of emotions that’s much wider than with male characters.” I quote this merely to remind you that David Cage is a sexist heel and his handling of women in his games is gross as hell.

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