Created for and originally posted at Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium The widely popular video game Bayonetta has had an advertising campaign that matches the on screen sexism of the game itself.  In Tokyo a large billboard in the subway invited passersby to literally strip off  flyers to reveal Bayonetta naked underneath.  The campaign [...]

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Tags: Advertising, Bayonetta, Bitch Magazine, Harassment, Playstation 3, Public Transportation, Sexism, Street Harassment, Video Games, xbox 360

[tweetmeme]Yesterday may have been the first Canadian Video Game Awards but I doubt they are the first instance of overt sexism in the Canadian video game industry. Last night I attended the first Canadian video game awards and minus the bad dialogue, the sexist jokes and the glorified “booth babes” as stage candy it wasn’t [...]

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Tags: Allan G Johnson, Canadian Video Game Awards, Gender Knot, Jokes, Racism, Resistance, Sexism, Video Games