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Sexism alive and well in Chinese gaming

8:40 PM on 01.08.2007, Nex 12 comments

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Perfect World, an MMO developer based in Beijing, seems to think that the year is 1950. Their Chinese fantasy MMORPG World 2 is set to open a female-only server group in the near future that, as the title implies, will only allow for female players. While this will definitely cut down on the amount of e-necking that occurs in-game, these poor ladies will never get dates to the sockhop if they are segregated this way. Some of the boys might even start to think they're *gasp* squares!

Allusions to an era even before that of your parents aside, this seems like the kind of bizarrely PC gesture that goes well beyond the spirit of the movement and just ends up being offensive. Women gamers might like the idea of getting away from the creepy, sexless, juvenile male gamers, but who's to say that male gamers wouldn't also want to get away from the girls who spend their time flirting and whoring themselves out for virtual attention? Segregating gaming servers is not only bound to fail (How do they plan to authenticate this? Will they be inspecting your genitals on login?), it's the kind of idea that would draw a tremendous backlash from the ACLU and Gloria Steinem if it wasn't occurring only in Red China.

Maybe I'm totally off-base though; Do any of you female gamers want servers of your own? If so, why don't we create servers only for people with IQs above 125? If that works, why don't we create servers only for white people?

Can you see why this might not be the best idea? 


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Hannah at 01/08/2007 21:37
As far as I can tell, the only advantage of a female-only server is that it'd be a way to get away from the girls who think that having a vagina makes them special and guarantees that they are being horribly repressed on every game ever invented, whether others know they have a vagina or not. They won't have as much of an audience on an all-girl server, and while they will certainly continue to be bitchy attentionwhores elsewhere on the internet, they will hopefully play normally on the server itself if they play there at all.
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Milofo at 01/08/2007 22:07
In MMOs you can never tell if the female character is really a female or not. So the character you could be trying to impress could be a sweaty 400Ib 35 year old male high school dropout. So to say that a girl is an attention whore in the game is misleading since you can never tell if they are really a girl or not. Plenty of people want free stuff in game; not just women.

I don't know why they have a segregated server but if its like the kind of segregation on trains in Japan, then it might be a good idea. For those that don't know, certain cars on trains are segregated by sex at peak hours because of the huge problem of gropers.
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Ashdate at 01/08/2007 23:23
Honestly, this isn't really out of the ordinary; many activities, especially sports, segregate men and women.

- Eddie
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Rezbit at 01/08/2007 23:32
I demand a server catering specifically to ham sandwiches.
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GENACON at 01/08/2007 23:38
There had better be tomato on that sandwich.

*shakes fist*
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PKN at 01/08/2007 23:50
Looks like Rezbit and Genacon may have fueding servers... Anyway, as long as they don't disallow women from normal servers then who cares? If they made a "Jews Only" server people would go crazy but unlike Nazi Germany, people are able to NOT go to any server they want. For the women who want their own server, congratulations. For the rest, enjoy playing in another server.
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hoi1ma at 01/09/2007 02:42
If that works, why don't we create servers only for white people?
greatest example ever, such server can be call skinheads serv, or kkk serv, just having my fun, ok im done.
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dprime at 01/09/2007 12:54
That's pretty sexist. But I guess seeing as it's not happening in the United States it's okay and they should get away with it.

"IQs over 125" wouldn't help much. I've attended schools for only people with IQs over 140, and there were as many dumbasses there as anyone else; I guess irrationality will make you dumber than stupidity.
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dprime at 01/09/2007 12:55
ironic typo. *only for
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