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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
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dabom88
United States3483 Posts
On July 29 2011 14:27 NeverGG wrote: I regularly drive my other non-tokusatsu watching friend a bit mental by dragging him off on searches for certain types of merchandise. Would so totally buy a Mobairite if I had the money to import it. | ||
NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
On July 29 2011 17:34 dabom88 wrote: Would so totally buy a Mobairite if I had the money to import it. We've just gotten the Goseiger toys here (We're almost one year behind Japan, and they skipped Shinkenger due to it being too overtly Japanese.) and I got my Leon cellular :D We've only got Gokaiger capsule toy machines here for now, but my mini (working action) mobirate is so cute! | ||
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dabom88
United States3483 Posts
On July 29 2011 17:58 NeverGG wrote: We've just gotten the Goseiger toys here (We're almost one year behind Japan, and they skipped Shinkenger due to it being too overtly Japanese.) and I got my Leon cellular. Don't really care much for Goseiger. And I think Shinkenger may have also been skipped due to Korea's ban on I think Samurai images (due to bad relations with Japan). It's the same reason Mitsurugi was excluded from many Soul Calibur games in Korea. | ||
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tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
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Necosarius
Sweden4042 Posts
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TheGiz
Canada708 Posts
On July 29 2011 04:26 sailorferret wrote: + Show Spoiler + The belief women are X, men are Y helps to perpetuate the belief that Starcraft is no place for women so there's no reason working on correcting the other problem I state above. If you look at the other threads like gender disparities in e-sports you'll notice time and time again that the community responds in way negatively toward changing it or opening it to others because the belief is the community exists as it does is natural. Ie, there aren't women playing because women don't want to (many people assume for biological reasons). The solution to me consists of (1) promoting the existence of high-level competitive female gamers to create role-models for other female gamers; (2) report people to Blizzard who you see harassing or demeaning people for people women; and (3) be open to the realization that cultural conditions can and do change... and that everything we do either works to solidify things how they are or break them down to form new conditions. This post is far too naive and idealist. We're not creating Business Executive Barbie for girls to use as role models - we're trying to get women interested in something that right now they don't find interesting. Go for that angle after you get the audience, if only to get the women that care about that kind of thing (since the rest don't). So how do other prestigious sports leagues get female fans, especially when most sports have single gender teams? One answer is to have a women's division. With the competition so low for women right now, this is impossible. It would be like having the LPGA Tour with less than 10 good female golfers. What we need is to accommodate the female audience with full realization of the male dominated field - even in the face of rampant pandering to men. One league does this probably better than any other, and that's the NFL. You'll notice that even though the majority of NFL fans are male, there are still tons of female fans. The NFL has top-of-the-line strategy, competition, and dyntastic sports franchises as its big hooks. It also doesn't hurt that there is the popularity of cheerleading, the draw of big muscly men, the fact that they are highly paid, and the fame and recognition that comes with all of it. Women are attracted to this as much as they are to the game - you can't win fans based on the game alone; that's not how marketing works. So make e-sports big, don't play down the male fanbase, and give women a reason to watch other than the fact that women are playing the game. Then maybe one day we'll get a Liquid Barbie doll, and it'll attract more women into the sphere of E-Sports as a positive role model. ![[image loading]](http://www.truthdig.com/images/arts_culture_uploads/computernerdbarbie_300.jpg) | ||
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