Comments on: When You Put Bunny Ears On An Orc, YOU PROMOTE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

By: Female Gamer

Female Gamer — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:55 +0000

geldonyetich : You can define your own oppression or claim to be a female gamer who is okay with this until the cows come home.

If it's okay with you, I'd prefer not to be gratuitously called a liar. Why qualify my statement of who I am when you don't do the same to everyone else? Pick a time and a Vent server and I'll drop in and say hi. If, of course, you don't believe the pitch of my voice is a lie, too. Or ask Lum. He knows a few things about me, like my real name, and he knows people who have met me in person he could confirm it with if he needed to. Or, of course, you could just grant me the same courtesy you do others and assume that I'm not actually lying all the time. That would be kind of a nice thing.

By: Capn John

Capn John — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:55:54 +0000

Wait, the bunny ears are demeaning and promote violence against women? I thought it was a nod to Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time.

If I see bunny ears and think “tribute to a legendary video game” while you think “violence against women”, who really has the problem here?

By: Friends, Azerothians, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Bunny Ears | Wolfshead Online

Fri, 01 May 2009 21:05:32 +0000

[...] but after thinking about it perhaps there are some deeper issues to consider. This week Broken Toys mentioned a blog article by a man who was offended by bunny ears as part of a WoW achievement for the [...]

By: TPRJones

TPRJones — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:42:28 +0000

I don’t disagree, I just wanted to use the word “clamstamp”.

By: tmp

tmp — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:04:54 +0000

@TPRJones
Fair, even that is debatable given there can be quite different attitudes towards having someone else’s body part pressed into one’s face, depending if that other person is male or female. But –which was the point– such “content” getting accepted without any complaints how inappropriate it is for game developer to encourage this sort of interaction… unlikely.

By: All I Wanted Was a Bunny « The Ancient Gaming Noob

All I Wanted Was a Bunny « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:45:35 +0000

[...] races in the game. Certainly this sort of turn-about would have gone some ways towards blunting some of the criticism about the sexist and/or Playboy Mansion overtones of the event. (Putting bunny ears on level 18+ [...]

By: TPRJones

TPRJones — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:08:47 +0000

tmp : I figure if an FPS or MMO made it actual achievement to teabag X players, it’d raise some eyebrows and spawn some blog posts, too.

I would think it should be fair as long as there's also a clamstamp achievement, then everyone gets a chance at the prize.

By: DrDre

DrDre — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:30:13 +0000

I think that there’s one thing that we can all agree on, and that’s that bitches ain’t shit but hos and tricks. I for one am tired of the victim culture mentality perpetrated against hot girls who flaunt being hot by ugly girls who are mad that they’re ugly. Every womens’ studies class I’ve ever seen has been full of chubby, pasty, white girls who are always sick and complain about everything. All the internet has done is make it easier for them to complain and blame everything about their lives that they don’t like on a man.

Ship ‘em off to Saudi Arabia.

By: harl

harl — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:43:52 +0000

Sutro :
harl : @Sutro I’m offended by achievments.
Heh, I get that, harl. In fact, I could have a few things to say about the wisdom of implementing the uber-grindy commitment-centric achievement system in a media/popular environment where MMOs are under assault from all sorts of talking heads about addiction… …but I think I’ll save that one for another time.

Actually I was commenting on "I think it’s ridiculous to implement an achievement that has a chance of offending -anyone-." The only outcome of that position is no one gets anything.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:43:46 +0000

Well said, Sullee.

I actually think it was also casually sexist and a sign of the usual Blizzard ignorance and double standards, but I absolutely agree to your comment regarding achievements:

Crap achievements and dangling a carrot for people that they get if they do the most hilarious crap in shitty designed events.
Unfortunately, we have many games out there that share the achievement craze, basically to-do lists with hilarious objectives to gain something special in the end.

http://worldofwarcraft.mmocluster.com/achievements
I suggest creating this achievement:
http://worldofwarcraft.mmocluster.com/img_achievements/e9e4d11965f67335f3070bc3b8836659.jpg