Sv: Ny tråd om GTA / Grand Theft Auto og ungdommen
Hva mener du er "varige men" da?
Og hva er ungdommens argumenter for å spillet et spill med et slikt kvinnesyn?
Jeg syns denne artikkelen i The Telegraph sier mye av det samme jeg tenker om GTA, og har en grundig og god diskusjon om spillet.
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There has also been much discussion about how GTAV treats women. That GTAV is misogynistic is a defensible position. Women in the game are either bit-part players or set dressing: strippers to throw money at, prostitutes to pick up.
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There are three lead characters that players can control in the game: all male. The women characters are often leered at or cast as nags. One of the player characters daughters has “skank” tattooed across her back, one mission has you chaperoning a paparazzo as he tries to photograph an aging actress’s “low-hanging muff.”
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I felt dirty driving around that paparazzo; the idea of a mini-game that effectively asks you to grope a stripper repels me, I began to feel suffocated by a testosterone-addled life of deviancy.
And that, I think, was the point. Grand Theft Auto V is relentlessly misanthropic, holding up a skewed mirror to our entertainment and industries and asking us to peer into the ugly reflection.
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To my mind, at least, Rockstar are asking similar questions about the treatment of women in our culture. And, no, I'm not comfortable with it.
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However, perhaps the great tragedy of GTAV is that too much of its audience is comfortable with it. The satirical barbs at its target demographic are too heavy-handed, the industry too much in its adolescence, which leads to many of its male players to revel in its frat-boy humour, rather than feel repelled by it. The video games industry is one that struggles deeply with the treatment of women. Just a brief glance at the Twitter hashtag #onereasonwhy, which details the struggles women have had in breaking through in the industry, will give you an idea. Though prepare to be thoroughly depressed.
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In an otherwise positive review, GameSpot’s Carolyn Petit called Grand Theft Auto V “politically muddled and profoundly misogynistic”, which is a strong, justifiable stance to take. This was greeted by over 20,000 user comments, a large proportion of which were unequivocally misogynistic and abusive themselves. Petit was called, amongst other things, a "moron", while another said there was “no point in giving GTA to a woman to review. Their input is worthless.”
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