Masculinity in Video Games

[Combine 017]

Whats a Day[9] Daily?

[Professor S]

I think your ability to play semantics isn’t quite as graceful as you think it is. “Becoming increasing ubiquitous” implies modernity, because they are increasing in modern times. As for confusing “heroic” and “hypermasculine”, every legendary myth I posted was both heroic and hypermasuline. Paul Bunyan was a giant to chopped down entire forests with a single blow from his axe. Doesn’t get much more hypermasculine than that, unless he picked up a few ladies at the bar afterwards. Also, traditionally heroic figures ARE hypermasculine simply because female heroic figures were few and far between (patriarchal, but true). The idea of male masculinity is built on these tales of heroism.

I’m not saying that the grunting ogre doesn’t exist in gaming, but I think you are taking few notable modern examples and trying to create a ubiquity that simply doesn’t exist while ignoring the history of the grunting ogre in masculine media content. After all, Conan the Barbarian was invented in the first half of the century.

Is it a stereotype or even a genre? Perhaps, but the explosion of social and casual gaming as well as modern intelligent heroes like Drake and even Master Chief prevent the ubiquity you claim. Let’s not even mention the Japanese RPG androgynous ladyboys or Link who is still very popular and runs around in tights and a pixie cap.

FUN!

[Typhoid]

This chick was probably picked on in highschool by jocks, is a lesbian - and was raised by a single mother who had a father leave her. She probably is also super into feminism. So fuck her, right. Figuratively, though. Nobody would ever actually fuck a feminist. I don't think feminists actually want to get fucked, anyways. Feminists probably just want a nice pair of flannel pants and a 11 inch dildo. Because they don't need a man's penis. Unless that man put his penis into a cast so they can then use that cast of a man's penis to thrust into another feminists vagina. "Down with masculinity! Hey, hand me that massive black dildo."

Anyways, I love Republican-Republican debates.
It's like an argument about semantics which slowly turns into an argument about what semantics are, and finally what semantics were said in the first place.


Feminism is probably how ugly chicks rationalize why no attractive guy with muscles wants to fuck them.

/tangent over

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Anyways, I love Republican-Republican debates.

You think this crazy bitch is a Republican? Feminists don't make up a very large part of the party...

[Typhoid]

No, I don't actually think that crazy lesbian feminist bitch is actually going to be Republican.
I just meant that that crazy lesbian feminist bitch argues like a Republican.

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by Combine 017

Whats a Day[9] Daily?

www.blip.tv/day9 (I think.) Basically he does a show to help players become better Starcraft II gamers. He's a really funny and nice guy.
I thought I recognized something from his show, but I was wrong.