Comments on: Pitching Harassment [Girls & Game Ads, Part 2]

By: tekanji

tekanji — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:24:45 +0000

The male BE though could be a discussion of its own, maybe I should make a post about it in the Irisforum (the whole debacle about their efemninate behavoir and the changes blizzard made to their modell in the TBCbeta, buffed it up due to complaines). Sorry for going abit offtopic of the article.

Please do! That’s actually part of the topic for my WisCon paper and I would love to be able to include some of the opinions of Irisers.

By: RoninG

RoninG — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:10:20 +0000

Great article, just wanted to chime in though about the dances, the male troll dance is infact capoeira, the brazillian dance/martial art and the infamous NE-poledance is taken from the french artist AlizÃ©e’s stage performance easy to look it up on youtube et.all. Haven’t really thought about the silly’s but now that you mention it many female sillys, especially the draenei sex(y)-jokes.

The male BE though could be a discussion of its own, maybe I should make a post about it in the Irisforum (the whole debacle about their efemninate behavoir and the changes blizzard made to their modell in the TBCbeta, buffed it up due to complaines). Sorry for going abit offtopic of the article.

By: Rookie

Rookie — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:34:18 +0000

They seemed to have changed their ways a little. The expansion pack Burning crusade has a male blood elf on the front… PS, women do belong in the kitchen, just kidding :p

By: WoW-gamer

WoW-gamer — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:16:23 +0000

Hi.. i know this post might be old, but i decided to write a reply anyways.
You said that the bodiers of the women pictured in the human and undead female posters was very similar. Well… I just wanna say that this is as it shuold be. Undeads are former humans, that have been infected by the plague, and turned into undeads. (It dosent need to be humans ofc, it can be everything)
Therefore its only normal that the bodies are alike. Its following the lore. Also, that the women’s bodies are showed more than the dwarwen male is totally understandable. The picture of the dwarf is showing the face of the dwarf. Imo this is to show that dwarfs are stout and brave. the reason that there are shown more of the female’s bodies is that they are preforming a action. Both of them seems to be casting a spell. Imo its showing more that the class the females are can be powerfull, as in casting a deadly spell at their targets. The human is casting, while looking proud and fighting for justice, while the undead is casting a spell to kill, torture and bring destruction to something innocent. You can see that the undead look evil, and the human look good. The dwarf poster is very sililar to the human. both show a individ that is brave and honorable.

By: tekanji

tekanji — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:46:20 +0000

I think Sour Duck had it right when she responded to my “why aren’t women the target audience?” question: keeping power in the hands of the patriarchy is the number one goal, whether or not these marketers consciously perpetuate that goal. Gains are threatening to privilege, ergo the people in power find ways to co-opt the messages and turn them into something non-threatening. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself… I’m going to be addressing just that in my next post (when I get back from my mental vacation, which should be any day now).

By: egalia

egalia — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:18:26 +0000

What Sour Duck said! It’s stunning how in spite of, or because of, all the recent so-called gains, misogynistic culture just keeps on reproducing itself.

By: Sour Duck

Sour Duck — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:02:07 +0000

Bravo.