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(Source: The Entertainment Software Association – .) This represents an increase of two per cent in the previous year alone.
Yet we know that this demographic is a fallacy: a 2010 study showed the average age of US gamers is 37, of which female gamers make up 42 per cent. It could be said that Rocksteady were staying true to the adult source material, yet there can be few who’d argue the female of the species receives a fair cop in videogames as it is.Īrkham City’s pejorative machismo and heaving bosoms could be seen as yet another pandering to the perceived yet wildly inaccurate 14-18 year-old, developmentally-dunderheaded male demographic, who, to a depressingly large number of misinformed people, still represent the vast majority of gamers.
Whether Gotham’s roaming criminals would indeed label a quasi-feline anti-hero dressed as a cat a ‘bitch’ in reality is of course a ridiculous question, because, as a hypothetical notion, it is so far removed from reality in itself. This was followed by a similar article on respected gaming site Kotaku, which said “…there’s a fine line between edgy dialogue and forced, angry overkill,” while GameFront’s more lenient opinion was that “Many people don’t even consider the weight of the word when used against a female, equating it with ‘bastard’ for males.” It all began with a blog post by Film Critic Hulk, who bemoaned the portrayal of Selina Kyle (and other, less prominent female characters) as masturbatory aids to the game’s henchmen (“They all look good in here…”), her cloying flirtations with Batman following a rescue at his testosterone-soaked hands, and the non-stop ‘bitch’-cussing, despite the rather redundant observation that ‘bitch’ refers to a dog.įilm Critic Hulk argued that the game over-egged its misogyny to an uncomfortable degree, and included with it no actual salient purpose within the game besides some vacuous notion of an ‘edgy’ representation of criminal behaviour, which he argued to be a deeply flawed excuse. Yet the complaints go deeper than this, and appear to have hit a nerve.
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