Rants of a Gamer Girl: Playstation Is My Least Favorite Console
Yesterday Sony announced their newest innovation on the Playstation 3 network: women in bikinis – in 3D! Starting on February 15th, gamers can download the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition to their PS3. As if the objectification of women in games themselves wasn’t bad enough already, now sexism is available as a 12 HOUR VIDEO DOWNLOAD.
Don’t female gamers already have to put up with enough crap between pink-cutesy-targeted-advertising, hiding our genders in gamer tags, harassment, the inability to chat in an online match, insulting training videos, and horrible portrayals as playable characters? Well at least now I know some higher-up at Sony is a sexist asshole, pretty much guaranteeing I won’t be spending money on their products anytime soon. If Playstation is flaunting their latest innovation as being the three dimensional objectification of women in skimpy clothing, I can’t say I’m a fan of the PS3 right now.