Now that EA has released the cover picture and the trailer for Battlefield 5 it is time to look forward what should be another great title in a series that has shown tremendous growth and support over the last decade plus.
The trailer features gameplay that includes women in warzones during World War 2. Apparently, this kind of inclusion of women in a game that doesn’t feature them as busty sex objects is offensive to boys that have aged towards becoming mediocre adults that would like to think they are manly. They have an obvious misunderstanding of what it means to be a man. It is worth talking about this because it is still something that we clearly need to continue working on in larger ways than hashtags and such.
A lot of the anger is that they are showing women in combat roles. The feelings are obviously misplaced and those that try to justify it use the weak excuse of ‘historical accuracy’. What they seem to forget is that women and minority groups have largely been written out of history in order to preserve the societal idiocy that continues to push an often white male narrative. For evidence of this, here is an article about a badass woman named Aethelflaed that was nearly written out of history.
Sadly, there are some rather loud personalities coming out of the digital cesspool so they can get attention for being the worst kind of person they can be. The disgusting and uninformed posts are easy enough to find if you want to read them. I won’t link to any of them because they don’t deserve the clicks – or the time of anyone.
It’s been almost four years since I had to tackle this topic head-on (link here) and it still leaves me stunned for some weird reason that insecure males are so proficient at existing in their little bubble of idiocy. Part of me is holding out hope that most of these personalities are Russian trolls that are trying to sow hate and discontent within the gaming community. Part of me knows that these people actually exist. It makes me sad to think that there are still people out there that raise their kids with the poisonous vitriol that eventually becomes an adult with destructively ugly misogynistic beliefs and a loud mouth to go with it.
All of this said… I have to end on a positive note.
EA has impressed me with their response (link here) to the trolls by telling them that they aren’t the kind of gamers they want anyway. I like this move because it finally shows that positive steps are being made at the top and it’s not just some sort of grassroots movement with empty hashtags and tweets. It’s vital for companies to continue making these statements and decisions because it tells the loud boys that they aren’t needed in the first place.
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