I laughed all the way through the article, starting with the idea that zergs are actually female and ending with the fact that it was signed by a women.

freelander

Hungary4707 Posts

May 17 2009 07:18 GMT

#209

rofl she's writing:
"Valkyrie- (speaks )In an overly sexualized Russian accent."

InToTheWannaB

United States4770 Posts

May 17 2009 07:20 GMT

#210

I always knew zerg was for pussys

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

May 17 2009 07:46 GMT

#211

On May 17 2009 14:32 Savio wrote:

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Owned the thread.

hehe

DoX.)

Singapore6164 Posts

May 17 2009 07:47 GMT

#212

On May 17 2009 16:46 Patriot.dlk wrote:

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hehe

lol

jodogohoo

Canada2533 Posts

May 17 2009 08:05 GMT

#213

On May 17 2009 16:20 InToTheWannaB wrote:
I always knew zerg was for pussys

your doing it wrong, think apples

JWD

United States12607 Posts

May 17 2009 08:20 GMT

#214

Great thread here lol...I'd love to see the author try to defend her work here at TL o.o

I wonder how someone like her got on to StarCraft in the first place...doesn't seem like the game would be essay-worthy within her demographic.

dNo_O

United States233 Posts

May 17 2009 08:33 GMT

#215

she says a lot of equally sexist bullshit herself... "It is the economy that is set up by the half of the species that cannot bear children, the half than needs to invest worth in order to gain." so... hunter/gatherer is an investment based economy?

"Also, their power lies not in efficiency of building (more marines per minute) but in keeping your troops alive long enough to get them nurtured and grown up to a state of power. (Good job for those of you who are putting together the gender argument already)." <-- look at that sexist act of reinforcing the extrapolation of ideas without proper evidence!

The Protoss and Terrans, follow the male sexuality of building up, and up, and up, until finally it is the long awaited moment, while the Zerg build up, and then drop some, then build more… and more… and more… and more, and once dropped it may re-build up again, much sooner than it's male counterpart. <--- she has obviously never seen a 30 gate toss

she claims that the protoss and terran structures are phallic? what about the spire? what building does either terran or protoss have that is more phallic than the zerg spire?

what a noob.

I dunno about you guys, but I tried nurturing my drones into ultralisk on iccup and I won 0 times... damn... what was I thinking? Oh yeah, I thought I was playing the vagina race and that I had to nurture my units and get them to grow up... because zerg is the least aggressive race, and always wins by turtle.

diehilde

Germany1596 Posts

May 17 2009 09:53 GMT

#216

On May 17 2009 05:16 mahnini wrote:

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think about the target market for sc when it was released

exactly man, go watch all episodes of Sex and the City and you'll know what sexist is...

FieryBalrog

United States1381 Posts

May 17 2009 10:02 GMT

#217

On May 17 2009 07:26 travis wrote:

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you seem to be forgetting that civilization also evolves. societies aren't always structured optimally. I find it amusing that you talk about how almost all societies are completely dominated by men, and then follow it up with "Many societies have taboos for menstruating women (which is sexist according to modern feminists), yet they independently created them. Almost all societies discourage female promiscuity, same idea.", as if women have a say about that in a male dominated society.

You'd be surprised by what women do and don't have a say in in traditional societies. It certainly isn't a one way dialogue. Society is male dominated in that political power structures are created and run by men in all societies. That public power is what I'm referring to and it does not simply dictate the nuts and bolts of every day human rituals, behaviors and taboos, in fact the power structure is borne of society, the society is not borne of the power structure. Something like a menstruation taboo isn't created by a committee of the ruling men. And the idea of women as mute recipients of male action is ahistorical.

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

May 17 2009 10:17 GMT

#218

It´s 7 years old bullshit that's written by a transvestite feminist, enough said.

Jaeden

Romania1489 Posts

May 17 2009 10:22 GMT

#219

women are sooo romanians

Foucault

Sweden2826 Posts

May 17 2009 10:22 GMT

#220

Yeah I agree that the author of the article went a bit overboard, but I can still understand where she is coming from. This touches alot on sociology and Foucaults work about discourse.

Basically we have certain values and ways of thinking in our society which are largely subconscious, for example about women. It's a fact that we live in a society where the male sets the rules to a big extent.

So to everyone replying "lol fucking feminists" or "rofl she is a moron" do yourself a favour and think one step forward and actually try and get what she is getting at, although her arguments go a bit overboard. This is not so far fetched as some people would like to think