Quote Originally Posted by Formalhaut View Post
To be honest, aren't we being incredibly anal by dissecting the in-game statistics and abilities down to the finest details?
Yeah, but the general point behind it is that saying Vanille is the best healer in the game and that such a 'fact' is sexist is misleading when she is not the best healer at endgame, is arguably forced into the healing role in the early game, inevitably has about the same overall healing 'power' as Hope when they are both in your party despite the better spells and so on... it's just misleading to point it out when there is a guy in the same boat. It's like... okay, say you have an office that has in the past traditionally been sexist and, for twenty years, always hired women in sales and never men. A few years pass and you return to that office, and there is a woman and a man in the sales department. Do you complain that it's sexist that the woman is in the sales department, and do you say "Oh, she's clearly the main sales person" when the guy outperforms her on various aspects of sales? No, you don't. You applaud the company for finally getting a guy into sales.
Quote Originally Posted by Raist
But women are also more negatively impacted by cultural sexism, and the standard RPG audience in the West (young, generally white males) still generally dismisses the issue -- as you, to be quite honest, have amply demonstrated.
:rolleyes2: See above and tell me what you think of the sales department analogy.

As for the male aspect, I think having five articles on women and zero on men would be a shame. People are much, much faster to dismiss male stereotypes than they are female stereotypes, so I'd be interested if you did a single article on the male side of things, just to see how it all fits in. While females do undoubtedly get more sexism targeted at them, I think we shouldn't dismiss a lesser crime as unimportant because of the bigger one.