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Sexism in Games

    03-May-90 12:17:55
Sb: #32853-Sexism in Games
Fm: Jim Broek 71570,1413
To: Mary H Kelly 70656,1151
If males and females are portrayed in a certain stereotypical manner that is NOT sexism. There is no exploitation or degradation of women, by having a game in which the Hero rescues a Princess. Get Real. If men are portrayed as warriors and women as Damsels, what you're saying is that the women should have equal opportunity to be warriors as well. Sorry but that simply Was not an option in the Middle Ages. Simply because women have started to break out of traditional societal Norms in the past 25 years, does not change the history of mankind! Women have been subserviant to men since time began, right or wrong, and no amount of accusations of "Unfair" will change that fact, or the differences in men and women which caused the traditional roles to shape. Later, Jim