Gaming and feminism

Right on cue, P.Z. Myers doesn’t waste any time dubbing this promotional image of a video game called “Dead Island: Riptide for Europe” as “vilely misogynist,” yet fails to ruminate on how he would feel if a “hot” male body was depicted in such a way. I mean, for god’s sake, if you insist on showing graphic content such as this, there are only two options: either you show a mutilated female body or a mutilated male body. Does Myers and the feminist crowd want equality or not? Or do they just want men to be the exclusive victims of violence and women to be portrayed only as fragile flowers who somehow stand above the fray of human suffering? I chafe at this image as much as the next guy, but doesn’t it at least say something about the equality that has already been achieved that marketing material such as this can see the light of day without unraveling society as we know it?















