{"id":13953,"date":"2012-01-14T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/01\/14\/13953.html"},"modified":"2012-01-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:18:25","slug":"half-amusing-juxtaposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/01\/14\/half-amusing-juxtaposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-amusing juxtaposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I get spam now and then from the IGN Games website. I think I tried to unsubscribe at some point and failed, so now I just mark it as spam and move on.<\/p>\n

But the latest piece of spam from them had an eye-catching subject line: “Boobs, Bad Games and Misogyny + Top PS3 & X360 Games for 2012.” So I opened the email to take a look.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the lead article mentioned in the email is an opinion piece by Colin Campbell titled “Boobs, Bad Games and Misogyny<\/a>.” It kinda wanders around for a while, and qualifies too much (I suspect in an attempt to avoid taking too much flak from its (presumably largely male and non-feminist) readership), but its core message is a good one. Not the best feminist article about gaming ever written, but far from the worst.<\/p>\n

So I wouldn't be linking to it were it not for the other thing I noticed in the email.<\/p>\n

In the left column of the email, under the heading “Top Stories,” there was a link to the abovementioned opinion piece. In the right column of the email, right next to that piece, there was a link to a piece entitled “Babeology Warrior Week: Gabby Jeanne.” Which is, yes, a photo page featuring female models (real humans, not video-game characters) in extremely skimpy outfits and quasi-sexy poses.<\/p>\n\n

The best part of all this is the pull quote for the opinion piece, which is included in the email, and which appears right next to the “Warrior Week” photo:<\/p>\n

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If game makers want to distance themselves from cheap marketing tactics, there's a really easy solution...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sing it, brother. But you might want to start by talking to your own site. If game-site makers want to distance themselves from cheap marketing tactics, there's the same really easy solution.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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