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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-04-26 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #1941 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1941 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Carnivale]


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[Cabin Pressure]


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[Fallout New Vegas]


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[My Neighbor Totoro]


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[Kuroshitsuji]


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[The Devin Townsend Project]


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[Glee]


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[Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #277.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

[identity profile] drunken-clowns.livejournal.com 2012-04-26 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing about indie games is that they're made by just a few people for a very specific audience usually. They don't have to be general interest, and they don't want to. They're pretty much made for whatever the developer thinks of as "people like me" and if the developer's not the type to think about sexism, there's nobody around to say "hey maybe you're alienating a lot of your audience".

On the plus side, that means that developers who are more feminist-inclined get to make games that have female main characters or even have a message about sexism. So I guess just don't dismiss indie games as a whole? The individualism? is that the right word? of it means it's just going to be a really mixed bag.

As for your boyfriend, from what I've seen of SMB and Isaac, the sexism isn't really stuff that you'd pick up without any real knowledge of feminism? Like it's stuff that's a problem because it happens all the time (like with the girl as rescue object stuff) not because it's awful if it happens just once. It might not be as much of a thing to him, if gender roles aren't a thing he thinks about a lot. Instead of complaining to FS about it, why not just ask him to sit down and hear you out? Don't be a dick about the things he likes, and don't yell at him, but you seem really bothered and this comm doesn't seem like where you really need to air your grievances.

[identity profile] intrigueing.livejournal.com 2012-04-27 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
This entire comment. Made of win.