Lesbian Gamer: Butch Character Creation

Lesbian Gamer writes:

"As gay gamers we have faced complete exclusion or harsh portrayals. Only a few years ago, character options were infinitely more limited, but sometimes progress isn't pressed to go as far as it should. As tough as it is to be gender-different in the real world, at least you have control over your gender expression. It's near impossible to be anything other than a he-man or a girly-girl in a video game. Please, developers, give the rest of us some recognition."

[marionz]

dont get me wrong, gay lesbian bi straight whatever you are doesnt bother me at all, but this is news for GAMERS, we are all gamers and dont need catagories

the only thing that ticks me off is when people get in your face with the whole were here were queer get ova it attitude, people are people, thats why i reported this story, drop the attitude sexuality doesnt equal personality

[Wildarmsjecht]

Sweet sassy Molassy, everything I've wanted to say about this, you've done it in a nice little package. I feel the same exact way from beginning to end. When you decide to bring in your sexual orientation or race or w/e in a world that should only be about gaming and gaming with others, you're not helping at all. Thank you for that comment.

[yesah]

well, the developers arent going to go through all that trouble just to please the 1% of gamers that want it. They are going to put in what sells the game. Thats why mods were created, point and fact if your willing to write such a long article about it and not download and install a simple mod, you are just looking for something to write about on a slow news day.

[Superfragilistic]

Now if only you could talk some sense into the feminists upset about Fat Princess. ;)

[Pr3-M3d_G4M3R]

I feel the same way. Bringing sexual orientation into it is pure BS.

Her arguement is pathetic its like me saying "Hey I have a dimple on my left check, some freckles, my left knee cracks when I move it, my left arm is shorter than my right and games dont allow me to make a character to match me 100% OH NO! I better make a complaint about how game developers are prejudice against people that are as asymmetrical such as myself by not incorporating my characteristics!

I really believe that some people love to use what they think may be minorities to push their case and get what they want.

As far a he-man and girly-girl go, thats the way games are made to give us the feeling of what it might be like to be a generic super hero (not all the time), does it really take 50 bullets to kill someone, if you die in real life do you re-spawn? Of course not. Games are just that, games! If you want to be yourself but a super hero, then go out in public and spin webs to fly on buildings or go blow yourself up and respawn :P

[desudesudesu]

Since 99.999% of the readers here are aspies who live to troll, troll to live.

[SonySoldierEternaL]

looks like a BOT with that green armor

[RoyBoys]

Idk what this article is about but BOTs suck and Iam no longer one. My Ps3 comes super soon and I can destroy by suxbox

[outlawlife]

you seriously have nothing else to do?

[morganfell]

@outlaw,

With that article, they just forfeited any rights to complain about fat, chukka boot wearing, mullet headed stereotypes. They are begging, no they are openly asking for people to take pot shots at them. And they have no right to complain when that happens. They are all about freedom of expression, eh? Well he is giving them some and they have to learn that it isn't just their freedom that matters.

[patchie]

There's nothing wrong with saying that *some* lesbians are butch and wear boots and men's clothes. There's nothing wrong with being butch. It's just that not every single lesbian in the world is like that. For example, just because some people are vegetarian, it does not mean that every single human being is vegetarian.

[gano]

I'm just saying can i get a girl to game with. Jus hidin and
shyt..

[crippler666]

Okay while we are here, can we please start having beer bellied middle age men so I don't feel so put out?

[crippler666]

Sorry mum, I am what I am.

[outlawlife]

i really hate politically correct phrases like "gender different"

just because you are gay doesn't make you a different class of person, it doesn't make you entitled to your own little niche character in a video game

the characters in video games don't look like 99% of the straight people i know, and i've never seen a character in a game that accurately represents myself so whats makes this person any different from any other gamer?

more often than not it is the gay culture that alienates themselves from the general population, you're gay so what?

i get really annoyed by people who get on their gay soapbox and rant about things, whatever person you choose to have sex with is your decision it doesn't always have to be this holier than thou gay activist stuff

just because you think you are different and you choose to alienate yourself by forcing this so called difference/life choice/inborn quality or whatever you call it does not entitle you to special attention or special treatment

just because some people have negative feelings toward gay people doesn't mean everything is homophobic or discriminatory

the same can be said about race, but you have people who constantly force the issue for the sake of attention and it only causes further divisions like al sharpton, jesse jackson and militant black power groups

bottom line, nobody cares if you have a butch haircut, play the games and be realistic/rational and stop thinking you are more important than me just because you are gay, after all i like girls too

[Mcrmarcher]

Totally agree with marionz, you hit the nail right on the head, for that i shall give you a bubble!!!

[Rocko]

The most retarded article ever, period.

[cpuchess]

How would you know you aren't playing a girl who is trying to be a guy. Maybe Master Chief was a girl inside the suit, is the GTA4 character really a guy? Maybe he's an ugly Russian girl.

[outlawlife]

there are ugly russian girls?

well im sure there are but from my limited experience i have yet to meet one...although the native language isn't exactly enticing

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

Can be summarized by the second sentence...

"I imagined the great butch avatar I'd always longed to play, merging my desire to represent my biology without being forced to adopt an ultra-feminized appearance."

So obviously it's clear that this is a very mentally distraught individual. I see an overweight, flat chested, dreadful human being. Underneath it all, this one can be intellectual and creative, but mostly confused. In the past she was rejected one too many times by the opposite sex, and soon after, would seek refuge between her friend Sally's thighs. In the process, she would be giving up on herself and the family tree.

My point is, if someone refuses or chooses not to do the most basic and natural part of life correctly (reproduction). They are truly the most daft individuals on the planet.

Why do gays expect everyone to commend everything they do and stand for, when in the back of any SANE persons mind, they KNOW being gay is the wrong choice?

[Peow]

Being gay isn't always a choice, least not for men. I'm straighter than a texas queer chaser, but I'm a republican. I don't really care if people are gay, you see other animals that are gay all the time. Dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, you name it. There's atleast one gay animal per litter in Dogs or Cats. That's coming through 16 years of experience on my farm, seeing our dozens of stray dogs and cats(and adopted ones) constantly get knocked up.

We're not much different from other animals, only more civilized. Go back to the cavemen ages when man first stood upright. It was no different than what you see with other animals. We still act like other animals as well. Territorial, usually wanting to be superior, males always wanting to fight. Believe it or not, women usually want a tough bad guy because they (dont usually realize it) want their offspring to be better at survival. Again, they don't realize it, but there've been numerous studies on it.

And if you're the type who is going to bring "If we evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?" That's because we didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved from a common ancestor which is now extinct.

Sorry for getting off topic. I'm in a bad mood and ranting at people helps me vent steam :).

[tristefish]

"My point is, if someone refuses or chooses not to do the most basic and natural part of life correctly (reproduction). They are truly the most daft individuals on the planet."

So having sex with a condom makes someone daft? It's sex for non-reproductive reasons, right? Sex, purely for pleasure, makes someone daft, then. More than ninety percent of couples use some form of birth control. I guess most of the planet is daft.

[Guitarded]

we know better than to give in to our animal instincts and can make that choice. Just because someone is attracted to the same sex or an animal for that matter, does not mean they must act upon it. That is one thing that is supposed to seperate us from the animals. @ fish 8.2 No, but having sex with the same sex stricly for pleasure proves daftness and/or lack of control.

[Peow]

"It's near impossible to be anything other than a he-man or a girly-girl in a video game"

No it isn't. FFX, FFXII, and possibly FFXIII all have girly men in them. In wrestling games, I know you can put men in girls clothes(how would I know? My nephew, who's six, showed it to me as a joke). And in SCIV, you can create characters that aren't girly, there're clothes that are more unisex than anything.

Feminists and lesbian woman who take things too far and complain about EVERYTHING being anti-feminine or anti-lesbian or something along those lines really tick me off. People like that are the reason why people don't do things like this for you. You always complain.

[n00bzRtehgey]

plz stop submitting queer articles unless they are about hot, bisexual, teen girls.

[mirroredderorrim]

Hah. Next thing you know Green Peace will be upset over real-time foliage destruction.

[patchie]

What's wrong with a website dedicated to *lesbians* talking about the different ways lesbians might want to create characters? Nobody's forcing guys (or straight women) to read this article. Sure, you might not care about having a butch female character, but some people do.