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"non-phallic" implies all other first-person shooters are phallic. The word phallic implies many things. Yeah, the phrase is from someone else, but it certainl
by rlt3 12y ago
"non-phallic" implies all other first-person shooters are phallic. The word phallic implies many things.
Yeah, the phrase is from someone else, but it certainly wasn't included by accident.
Certainly not out-of-context.
- untog 12y agoThe phrase isn't wrong, though. The vast majority of FPSes involve you playing a man, shooting other men. Sometimes it'll include a woman, but only if she's very, very scantily clad.
- dublinben 12y agoReducing men to the physical expression of their sex is more sexist than anything else mentioned in the article. I will grant you "masculine," "macho," or even "puerile," but "phallic" is simply offensive.
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- byerley 12y agoI'm struggling to think of a scantily clad female FPS character, but it's not really my genre of choice. Can you give some examples? I always thought of it as more of a fantasy/RPG issue.
- Crito 12y agoSome (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120212153603/quake/images/e/e6/P_hunter_tn.jpg http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120212153603/quake/imag...) but not all (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221555/quake/images/8/8d/P_major_tn.jpg http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221555/quake/imag...) of the female characters in Q3A are scantily clad. (Similarly unrealistically proportioned male character with armor missing on stomach: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221956/quake/images/8/86/P_doom_tn.jpg http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221956/quake/imag...)
- pervycreeper 12y ago>The vast majority of FPSes involve you playing a man, shooting other men. Which has nothing substantial to do with a "phallus" of any kind.