"Top Ten Games with Positive Female Representations" Topic
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Tango01 | 24 Sep 2015 10:12 p.m. PST |
"I am a woman. I am a woman who likes board games. When playing games where you can take on roles, I like to be able to take on the role of a woman. I do not like when females in games are naked/nearly naked, damsels-in-distress, or mere sex objects to be ogled at. There's more to being a woman than our body parts or what we can do with our body parts. Hence, I would never play Busen Memo or Tanto Cuore. Give me a game where my character has to use her wits, martial arts skills, or cunning to win. That's what I want. Today, I am going to share my Top 10 Games with Positive Female Representations (or Top 10 Games That Aren't Busen Memo). These games depict women with their clothing on. They don't put women in sexually suggestive poses. These games treat women as people with varied skills, abilities, and characteristics, just like the males. (Except that they have boobs. It just isn't their defining feature.) Like the Bechdel test, these games feature at least two women, these women focus on something other than men, and they are named…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
StoneMtnMinis | 25 Sep 2015 7:06 a.m. PST |
Thanks for finding this one. I find it refreshing that there are games where women aren't caricatured as anatomically impossible bimbos or the hormone crazed s of teenage boys. There are adults in this hobby too. |
Tango01 | 25 Sep 2015 11:30 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Agree with you!. Amicalement Armand |
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