Long term study: No link found between video games and real-world sexism

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62. Do you even play games or know the history of these franchises?

Because it doesn't read that way.

Team Ninja also does Metroid and Ninja Gaiden. Zero misogyny in either. You do know that the protagonist of the Metroid games is Samus Aran, a bounty hunter and a female.

Just because a character is not playable does not mean that it is misogyny. That is the hyperbolic nonsense in all of these discussions. Zelda is still a formidable character irrespective of whether you play her or not. After 30 years of a story, no, I would not expect Link to suddenly change sexes just to satisfy pissed off feminists.

And you obviously don't know your Mario history or the character Princess Peach. She is a playable character in Super Mario Bros 2, Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros, all the Mario Karts, all the Mario Sport titles from baseball to basketball to golf, all the Mario Party games, and Super Princess Peach herself. Sorry the facts show she is not just some 'trope' or that she is an example of 'misogyny'.

For over a decade now, more and more games are giving all players a choice when they create the character in the beginning of the game. Men choose to play as women. Women choose to play as men. Whatever. Seriously, whatever. I chose to play Fem Shep during the entire Mass Effect saga for one reason. Her voice acting was exceptional and really made the story as it unfolded quite interesting to me. She was not sexualized even if she engaged in sexual encounters. She and other female characters like Lilith from Borderlands are a thorn in the side of Sarkeesian and her ilk who do not actually play the games, they just push a politicized agenda with regards to gaming.

Why don't we discuss the violence against men in video games? I have played every Call of Duty game in the franchise. Characters are expendable including story line leads. Wave after wave of faceless, nameless, men are blown away to advance the story. I can count on both hands the number of times in a game where I have had to 'kill' a female character, and in all cases, they were story appropriate 'evil' bosses with few exceptions.

Like I said, the facts show that all of this blather is just nonsense.