![]() So it should come as no surprise that Jim Sterling, that bastion of feminist advocacy, is arguing that we shouldn’t care if Duke Nukem Forever is sexist. In “Capture the Babe”, women are LITERALLY objects to be fought over. And then you have the fact that half of the preview screens that are being released are of strippers, or lesbians, or lesbian strippers, or strippers with dildos…Īdd to all of this the recent kerfuffle about the “Capture the Babe” mode and it seems mind-boggling that anyone could possibly argue against Duke Nukem being blatantly and horrifically sexist. It’s like they thought, well why bother showing the whole woman when all you really need is the hand? Ugh. They are LITERALLY using a female body part to imply sexual gratification. Now I have to admit that I do love that we get an angle of Duke that is almost exclusively used with female characters (I tend to think of it as “boob perspective”) – it’s a nice example of sexualization that male characters don’t usually get, even if Duke is pretty covered. I mean, pointing out how DNF is sexist is pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. I’ll admit that I’ve avoided dealing with Duke Nukem Forever, mostly because it just seemed too easy. Hopefully I’ll be able to get the first Magic post up tomorrow. So I thought I’d post a bit of WTF that I stumbled across on various gaming news sites just to tide you folks over while I continue to pull together research for the posts about Magic. I’m working on a series of posts about Magic that is proving to be more time consuming than I thought.
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