The name is gendered and excludes women and girls. I feel like things like that in the past have led to the disrespect women get in gaming to this day.
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Was the GameBoy name sexist?
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It was not and in no way was a cause of that. Or i have not read ever the 1st complain about "I never played video games cuase the game boy was called gameboy and not GAme or Gamegirl"
Somehow surprised that I haven't seen this thread before in retrospect
But for the question, I don't think so? It calls the console itself boy and I don't think anybody was particularly miffed they're playing Pokemon FireRed on something called a boy
But for the question, I don't think so? It calls the console itself boy and I don't think anybody was particularly miffed they're playing Pokemon FireRed on something called a boy
As much as Walkman was, given it's a riff on that.
Edit: I'm not only late, but apparently people didn't realize that, heh.
Edit: I'm not only late, but apparently people didn't realize that, heh.
I can't inagine it was around that time but I'd imagine that parents didn't get it for their daughters because they might have said that the game boy is for boys only.
Do people legit think these things? Connected brain stem and all.... GameBoy is....troubling, problematic even....
On the offchance this is a legitimate question and not bait for a Facebook shitposting group, there are a lot of factors that contributed to the rampant misogny in gaming today, whether in a digital landscape or the multiplayer community, but a gendered name for a platform ranks at the bottom of the list, if not completely eschews it.
Given how much around me it's the ladies that got the most use out of said aforementioned
I don't think ladays gave much of a damn on this one ...
(checks with his sister and his SO .... yeah no apparently like Brofield just said to quote them "there's a lot of shit that contributed to the rampant misogyny we see but the name for the platforms itself is low on the list it's barely worth mentionning really " )
I don't think ladays gave much of a damn on this one ...
(checks with his sister and his SO .... yeah no apparently like Brofield just said to quote them "there's a lot of shit that contributed to the rampant misogyny we see but the name for the platforms itself is low on the list it's barely worth mentionning really " )
I legit can't tell if this is an elaborate troll or we need an actual purge on the Human Race as a whole.
What kind of hand we talking here? A masculine hairy hand or...?
Dare I post my initial reaction to this thread like everyone else and risk another 5 day ban for making light of discrimination discussion?
Sure you do. If you really cared, you would have typed more than a sentence.
The name was definitely not well liked at first.
Wikipedia said:
So in the end, it's Sony's fault.
The fact that they even had to call it a girls edition is quite telling.
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