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StarCraft = Sexist? Some feminists just go too far

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vicviper
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada8 Posts
May 16 2009 19:36 GMT
#1
I died a little inside after reading this article.

http://www.vanguardparty.com/articles/starcraft.html

It is a bit long so let me summarize it for you: (actual quote) "Zerg = female, alongside Zerg = unknowable, evil beast yields a culture who regard female = unknowable, evil beast. This is obviously a problem. Women are human, men are human."

Ms. Kelly Alerenson, the author of this article, tries to argue that Zerg runs on a "female" economy, which relies on reproduction, and that Zerg buildings look convincingly gynic. She analyzed further that Zerg gameplay is like the development of an orgasm.

Now isn't that a bit too far? OH LOOK! Reproduction --> Gynic buildings --> Evil beasts --> WAHWAHWAH INEQUALITY!!

I'm all for gender equality, but these people piss me off. And relating this topic to Starcraft is just overkill, a blasphemy... downright moronic.

I got a good laugh out of the things she says though:

"Fight sexism. Fight gender stereotypes. Think of people as people, not as sexual objects, nor as the unknowable other."

(and while you're at it, fight the damned Protoss and Terrans for always oppressing Zergs.)

"A Nydus Canal is a large, vaginal opening, that if a Zerg unit enters, it may emerge at the other end, in a manner that "greatly puzzles most Terran scientists." (This quote is too much to not mock: What? Men cannot understand the vagina: the symbolic representation of women? I never would have guessed.)"

Btw, what scientists don't understand is instantaneous teleportation, not the fact that it looks like a vagina. Nice IQ.



GAH!
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
May 16 2009 19:39 GMT
#2
Stupid people are the great equalizers of the world, unfortunately, they must exist.
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
Scooge
Profile Joined December 2008
Iceland144 Posts
May 16 2009 19:40 GMT
#3
Don't really care what some retard on a small website has to say. Feel free to bring more attention to her obscure work.
FieryBalrog
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1381 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 19:46:56
May 16 2009 19:44 GMT
#4
LOL

God help you if you ever take some cultural anthro or women's studies classes. Entire academic departments are built on churning out articles like this and then the peer review session and the author have a good mutual cry together about how unfair the world is. My Medical Anthropology class was full of articles like this, where the author would find the most tenuous bullshit to get outraged about. One article was written about how the sperm/egg model was sexist because scientists described the egg as more or less sitting there and the sperm as active and swimming towards the egg.


Its why the term "sexism" doesn't have any meaning anymore. Its become a meaningless charge used so we're supposed to get all share in the author's outrage about absolutely nothing.

On May 17 2009 04:40 Scooge wrote:
Don't really care what some retard on a small website has to say. Feel free to bring more attention to her obscure work.


The real problem is that shit like this infects liberal arts academia like a plague. The author almost certainly learned how to produce papers like this on demand in class.
I will eat you alive
Naib
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Hungary4843 Posts
May 16 2009 19:44 GMT
#5
Lol WAT? :D

That's all I can say after skimming that stuff through.
Complete the cycle!
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
May 16 2009 19:44 GMT
#6
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"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
May 16 2009 19:44 GMT
#7
HAHAHA

what the fuck is that? who wrote this crap?

I say we try to bring that crap website down through server overload
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
May 16 2009 19:46 GMT
#8
honestly I've had to sit through stuff like this straight-faced in college lectures.

It's why I avoid pretty much every class of that type now
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Retsukage
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1002 Posts
May 16 2009 19:46 GMT
#9
Oh wow....
To change is to improve, to change often is to be perfect - Winston Chruchill
Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
May 16 2009 19:46 GMT
#10
Goliath
"Checklist completed…. SoB."
(Again, not only being a sexually derogatory statement, this implies that only males will be empowered; leading the force.)


Damn the Goliath is such a sexist.

This article seems like some female student wrote it looking for any type of ridiculous piece of evidence possible in order to make it longer.
I can only play starcraft when I am shit canned. IPXZERG is a god.
Shivaz
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1783 Posts
May 16 2009 19:48 GMT
#11
On May 17 2009 04:46 fusionsdf wrote:
honestly I've had to sit through stuff like this straight-faced in college lectures.

It's why I avoid pretty much every class of that type now


What class, women/feminine studies? If so why are you taking those lol.
Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 19:52:02
May 16 2009 19:51 GMT
#12
Also, one of the Zerg's greatest strengths is a building known as a Nydus Canal. A Nydus Canal is a large, vaginal opening, that if a Zerg unit enters, it may emerge at the other end, in a manner that "greatly puzzles most Terran scientists." (This quote is too much to not mock: What? Men cannot understand the vagina: the symbolic representation of women? I never would have guessed.)

I was just skimming and I LOL'd at that.
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
May 16 2009 19:53 GMT
#13
uh no, but starcraft IS racist

take a look at the scvs
why so 진지해?
FieryBalrog
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1381 Posts
May 16 2009 19:54 GMT
#14
On May 17 2009 04:53 Rekrul wrote:
uh no, but starcraft IS racist

take a look at the scvs


Its true, Russians are the highest race
I will eat you alive
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
May 16 2009 19:54 GMT
#15
uhhhhh... wut.

i really don't understand their argument... see because the nydus canal is a hole, therefore it is a vagina, and the nydus canal is a zerg building, and zerg are evil, so women are evil???

i get where they are coming from for the female unit responses kind of, but i really don't think blizzard is trying to make the game sexist...
UNFUCK YOURSELF
MuR)Ernu
Profile Joined September 2008
Finland768 Posts
May 16 2009 19:56 GMT
#16
Valkyrie- In an overly sexualized Russian accent.
"Don't keep me waiting."
"I have ways of blowing things…. Up."
"You're being very naughty."
"Who's your Mommy?"
"(Stallion neighing)"

i never knew that "achtung" is russian.
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
May 16 2009 19:57 GMT
#17
This shits like 7 years old who gives a fuck
Nak Allstar.
RHCPgergo
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Hungary345 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 19:58:18
May 16 2009 19:57 GMT
#18
In addition to the nydus canal, the hatchery looks like a thing with multiple vaginas. And larvas come out of them... such an insult to women.
DragoonPK
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
3259 Posts
May 16 2009 19:57 GMT
#19
ok what the hell? This is all some joke made by some retard trying to make his/her own theories supporting his/her argument.
Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
May 16 2009 19:58 GMT
#20
I must bring balance into the force
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