College Fix:
Digital hookers subject to ‘gendered fantasies of exceptionalism’
A professor from the University of California, Irvine, recently published a paper arguing that prostitutes in video games are often subject to “problematic” depictions, with video gamers engaging in “widespread cultural biases against sex work” as a result.
Bonnie Ruberg, a professor in Irvine’s Department of Informatics, argues in a paper published in Feminist Media Studies that the depictions of digital prostitutes in video game media “systematically strip these characters’ work of its value” due to the fact that, in numerous games, prostitutes “offer to give their services to the player-character for free or at a discount, or these games themselves provide players with opportunities to take their money back from sex workers after they have completed their services.” more here
She doesn’t see the games paint the girls as human beings who have attractions and desires like everybody else. She also doesn’t get the fact these games are played by teenage boys.
Of course, as a feminist, she doesn’t understand humans.
Wonder if it’s dissertation: It definitely adds to our existing body of knowledge about the perceptions of faux sex workers. Therefore should it be reported as faux news?
“Feminist Media Studies” ?
Since Shakespeare seems to have written of just about every character or personality under the sun, which one most closely matches this professor? It’s not a riddle, I’m really asking.
AA, take your pick…
http://shakespeare-art-museum.com/Watercolors/bf-fraud.html
It’s a video game Professor! Now do something useful with your studies. Maybe you can discover why you wake up stupid every day.
She’s right you know, they should be provided with “Lot’s of Cock and Plenty of Cash”
What the hell is a Dept. of Informatics anyway? That’s a totally new one on me. Is that where they teach you that we the enlightened elites will teach and inform you how to think our way and many different lifestyles and to accept them unquestionably and if you don’t we will assimilate you into the Borg to accept our way of thought or else? Sounds like brainwashing to me but what else do you expect from a bunch of Godless Commies.
Maybe they could get raised up to call girl with the upgrade.
But then at $5000 a night the clientele is limited to New York elected officials
If you are an intellectually twisted SJW, there is a place for you in Academia.
And she would know what the prostitutes are really worth, just how?
@Different Tim July 7, 2018 at 7:43 am
“Maybe you can discover why you wake up stupid every day.”
Maybe you can discover why you wake up stupider every day.
TFIFY
My beef with video games is that all the female characters – whether heroines or prostitutes are “babes”. IRL in Canada, the prostitutes are not that attractive, on drugs and are natives who look sick. If I was a man, I would be scared to get near them, let alone have sex with them.
Sounds like a job for….Charlie Sheen!