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More on Sex & Gender in 'Bioshock'


Submitted by thankeeka on November 5, 2007 - 10:25am. Females in Gaming News

Are women portrayed differently in Bioshock than their male counterparts? I think it's a bit of a stretch to read into such things as saying there is a subtext to the fact that you use Little Sisters for your own means, or to think that there is a bias or something else underlying the fact that women enemies say or do some things in the game. However, to each their own, so maybe there is something more.

From the article:

So we already talked about the Little Sisters, how they can be “used” by the male protagonist, how they’ve got super phallic needles, etc. Then there’s the sheer number (a decent 50%) of female enemies in the game. Long time Heroine Sheik readers know they’re in the presence of a total woman monster dork here. As we’ve seen in other survival horror-y titles, the female enemies in Bioshock are often creepier than their male counterparts. My first instinct is to say that’s because they have more personality. They coo over baby carriages which turn out to contain guns and scream things like, “Tell me you love me. Let me hear you say it!”

Read the full article over at heroine-sheik.com


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