#Latent #Tech #Sexism Still Alive and Well in 2013 [#geekgirl]
PS4 Event With Lone Male Figure. Seems As If They Forgot To Bring Any Female Figures Along.Â
There’s been a huge outcry of “WTF”? media guff regarding Sony’s PlayStation 4 New York Event [and with no actual pics of the new console on show, it’s no wonder why]. Another glaring omission during the PS4 show[-without-the-]casing was the lack of gal participants during the entire event, with Russell Brandom from The Verge banging out his concise take regarding it:
“This has sadly become business as usual in gaming and consumer electronics. If you didn’t notice, it’s probably because there also weren’t any female devs or executives onstage at the Wii U launch, or the EA Gamescom event, or the most recent HTC unveiling, or any Apple keynote in recent memory. With an all-male board and executive staff, Apple would have no one to send. In 2013, that should be shocking, but it’s so much the industry norm that it’s hard to single Sony out as especially egregious. Onstage, this is what the game industry looks like. It just isn’t what gamers look like.”
If all this sensible talk about leaving gals out of product launches just doesn’t fit in with your narrowly-focused phallocentric world view float your boat, try this pisstake-type-angle on the PS4 Event from VideoGamerTV instead.
[Update: for one of the first demos of the PS4 in action watch Jimmy Fallon and his testosterone-drenched buds below shoot the crapola outta stuff while demo-playing another hackneyed high gloss FPS-penis-replacement game “Killzone: Shadow Fall” (again, with no gal pals present).]