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	[quote name="an impossible test."][quote name="TELL ME #GG ISNT ABOUT SEXISM!!!"]If you think that rescuing women from cartoony villains in videogames (as opposed to rescuing women from mean internet comments) leading to any kind of tangible real life harm is "pretty common sense stuff", then I'm not sure anything anyone says is going to convince you otherwise.[/quote] This part wasn't in the videos I watched. Or maybe it was and I just forgot it, I dunno. Can you give me a link? [quote name="TELL ME #GG ISNT ABOUT SEXISM!!!"]I'll direct you to her most glaringly wrong bit, the Hitman video. She takes a single room from a single level that takes place in a strip club, where you encounter two strippers in their dressing room. The fact that you CAN kill them (it's much easier to sneak past them, which is what every single Let's Play on Youtube does) and drag around their bodies just like every other person in the game (95% are men) is proof that the game encourages the player to "desecrate the female form" (you are penalized points for every civilian you kill). That alone should be the end all demonstration of the honesty and critical thinking of video gaming's foremost "culture critic". If you still can't see how there is no difference between what she does and FOX News calling Mass Effect a sex simulator or how <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/02/08/bulletstorm-worst-game-kids/">Bulletstorm is responsible for real life rape epidemics</a>, then I give up.[/quote] Yeah see this is what I was looking for. I think found the right <a href="http://www.feministfrequency.com/2014/06/women-as-background-decoration-tropes-vs-women/">video</a>, and to save myself a whole lot of scrubbing past a physically unappealing (but not so grossly unappealing I can't still feel a little bit proud of myself for metaphorically kicking her out of bed) gypsy woman I just searched "hitman" in the transcript. [quote]Since we are discussing the intersections of objectification and interaction, we also need to consider some more direct aspects of objectification that are not as applicable in traditional mass media. Building off of philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s work on “objectification theory”, I’ve identified a number of fundamental aspects of objectification including instrumentality, commodification, interchangeability, violability and disposability, all of which are commonly embedded into the gameplay mechanics and programmed behaviors of NPCs in modern immersive titles. Since instrumentality is a core component of objectification, let’s begin there. In the realm of interactive media I use the term “instrumentality” to refer to the practice of using virtual women as tools or props for the player’s own purposes. Clip: Assassin’s Creed 4 “I’m terribly well informed about coun-try matters.” Courtesans in the Assassins Creed series, for instance, are available to be “rented” and used to help you “blend in” to the environment. Once acquired, they can be ordered to flirt with guards to distract them… Clip: Assasin’s Creed 4 “Alright go.” …allowing the protagonist to slip by undetected. Clip: Assasin’s Creed 4 “Come on, I’m a real snake charmer” <b>Hitman: Absolution features a mission in which the player can create a diversion by picking up and dumping the dead body of an exotic dancer near police officers.</b> Clip: Hitman: Absolution “Oh! What the fuck? Ah shit… that wasn’t there a minute ago.” The first three games in the Saints Row series feature a recurring activity called “snatch”. Clip: Saints Row “Now if you could bring me back some of those fine bitches who are turning tricks for other pimps, I could start seeing some real money. But I ain’t asking for something for nothing, I mean you help me out I’ll cut you in on what the bitches make.” These missions require the player to steal prostituted women, referred to as “hoes” in the game from pimps… Clip: Saints Row “Get away from my hoes you little bitch” …and then deliver them to a brothel or another pimp in return for a cut of their “business”.[/quote] Is there some context I'm missing for this to make it sound as scary as your post lead me to believe or are you just a huge pussy? Also I couldn't find the part about desecrating the female form at all. You can say a lot of shit about this chick but at least she knows how to use inverted commas :/[/quote]