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April 17, 2006
Kotaku: Girls of CS Comments & Responses
Perhaps you're familiar with the GirlsofCS?
Kotaku has some great commentary up on the issue right now:
I don’t mind that a site like GirlsofCS exists, but I do mind that they try to hide behind the whole “tearing down stereotypes.” If you want to have hot gamers post nude on the site, go for it, just don’t tell us it’s about empowerment.
Girls of CS has such a mixed controversial message that smacks of sensationalism for marketing's sake. Like Kotaku says, nude gamers? Fine. But when you say it's to prove that women play games (by having them pose nude to prove they're women?) and to tear down stereotypes, it just sounds moronic. As a woman who's been in the industry 24 years now, I'm not exactly sure what stereotypes you're talking about (and with my experience and my obvious area of interest - sexuality in games - you'd think I would).
* Women play games? No kidding. This is not news.
* That attractive women play games? See FragDolls, et al.
* Women can pose nude? See Hefner, 1950's.
* Women who play games can pose nude? Also see Hefner, 1990's.
From Kotaku:
Seriously, how can someone not get it THIS much. Girls of CS owner Dan Matthews emailed me again to tell me that if I don’t believe that his bevy of naked hot women-folk play CS I should go to some net cafe to see for myself. I believe, I BELIEVE, mother of god, I believe.
Now that we got that over with, why are they posing naked?
Posted by BrendaBrathwaite at April 17, 2006 08:27 AM | Discuss this post on our forums