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Still Not Wanted: Girl Geeks
A collection of angry-making links. But the comments are GOLD (though there's a couple trolls towards the end.) Lots of discussion of games and which ones let you play female characters and so forth. This comment caught my attention though:
I got Skate2 and you can choose to play as a man or woman... But if you choose a woman, you get a "gender bender" achievement, because obviously a woman wouldn't play it so you must be trans or gay... And, even when you created a female character, all the dialogue still referred to you in the masculine!
Just... what the fuck? WHY? Does the game reward you "gender bender" points for other stuff too?!
Also, the American Medical Association did not adopt Resolution 710 (A-09): Identifying Abusive, Hostile or Non-Compliant Patients today. Which is good. Somehow I still feel like throwing up though. I think it might be reading about forced C-sections that did it.
A collection of angry-making links. But the comments are GOLD (though there's a couple trolls towards the end.) Lots of discussion of games and which ones let you play female characters and so forth. This comment caught my attention though:
I got Skate2 and you can choose to play as a man or woman... But if you choose a woman, you get a "gender bender" achievement, because obviously a woman wouldn't play it so you must be trans or gay... And, even when you created a female character, all the dialogue still referred to you in the masculine!
Just... what the fuck? WHY? Does the game reward you "gender bender" points for other stuff too?!
Also, the American Medical Association did not adopt Resolution 710 (A-09): Identifying Abusive, Hostile or Non-Compliant Patients today. Which is good. Somehow I still feel like throwing up though. I think it might be reading about forced C-sections that did it.
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wtf, Skate2? Well, I usually play games as a male character, because they usually get cooler-looking stuff. Where's my "gender bender" achievement? :/ that's just so unnecessary. ugh, this also reminds me of this game that I love called Arcanum, but where, if you play as a woman, there is this quest you can only complete with either sleeping with the obnoxious guy character or killing him. :| (at least those were all the options I got, and i tried with two different characters.)
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that said, the elder scrolls has so little difference between the two that i'm happy to play as a girl, just because kicking arse in a full-length evening gown makes me happier than doing it in a tunic...so i suppose some games still give you the choice as to what you which gender you want to choose...
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that said, some of those examples were so exaggerated that they made em shake my head and roll my eyes. for example, no realy doctor is going to suggest that someone go on an 800 calorie diet...they might suggest dieting, sure, but they're not trying to make more paperwork for themselves by killing people off...
...but some of those other one's were bloody scary. makes me glad i live on the other side of the atlantic...
...but at least it didn't pass, right?
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Heh, IIRC the UK has pretty horrid sectioning laws. And have you heard about community treatment orders?
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Don't even get me started on psychiatric care over here! I can rant about it all day long. Really, a lot of it comes down to funding, the number of units that have been closed down over the last decade is sickening and people aren't getting the help they need... It's because, really, the government can get a lot of praise for lowering levels of heart disease and showing waiting lists for hip replacements are shortening and everyone just ignores those who don't have 'physical problems' until something horrific happens and then they just go for knee-jerk reactions that don't help anybody, really...and it's only when people other than those who need the services get hurt that anyone even notices...I remember ranting about this about 5-6 years ago after I'd watched a documentary about people who had been failed by services over here and had ended up jumping under trains and thinking 'surely someone wants to do something to cut down these figures'...hmrph...I could go on forever, but I'm meant to be revising and I'm trying not to let myself get riled up too much...
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