{"id":2784,"date":"2006-01-09T23:12:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2006\/01\/09\/official-shrubcom-blog-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-girl-power-girls-game-ads-part-3\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T23:12:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:12:33","slug":"official-shrubcom-blog-blog-archive-girl-power-girls-game-ads-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2006\/01\/09\/official-shrubcom-blog-blog-archive-girl-power-girls-game-ads-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Shrub.com Blog \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Girl Power? [Girls & Game Ads, Part 3]"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHow can it be a triumph of female agency when the woman who’s kicking some ass is doing it in the context of male desire?<\/b> Over and over again, the ads and the games they sell build up women of strength – both physical and mental – only to ascribe that power to a facet of their sexuality. It turns their power into something pornographic. Into something that will titillate the assumedly male players in order to give them the thrill of controlling a powerful woman and the aspect of a woman that supposedly makes her powerful: her sexuality.<\/p>\n
If “girl power” means submitting myself to male control, then I want none of it. I want to be powerful on my own. I want my sisters<\/i>, both real and written, to be powerful on their own.<\/b> For once, I’d like not to have to search through titles of “sexy women who kick ass” in order to find a good game with a female protagonist who isn’t a clich\u00c3\u00a9. I’d like to see an advertisement for a game with a heroine that didn’t<\/i> reduce her to a piece of T&A to be ogled. I don’t think that’s too much to ask, but apparently video game marketers do. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n