Between this and what's happening with 40k, it got me wondering - why is it considered a bad thing if something like video games is seen as a "boys club"?
In Japan they clearly have media and hobbies explicitly for men and for women. They don't mind if you read or play the other but there is an understanding that it's made for a specific audience so there's no attempt to try and make it later to you if you don't fit in that audience.
But for some reason in the West if your video game isn't for everyone or only targets males, it's considered a bad thing. Why is that?
A male dominated hobby requires physical effort, critical thinking, and/or ingenuity. A female dominated hobby requires only the superficial. When you mix the two, the male half has to be dumbed down to meet the standards of the female half.
It's an unfortunate fact of life, see male sports vs female sports.
Christopher Jackson
Is it safe to assume most of the "girls" in MTG are troons or cosplay thots?
William Peterson
For a company it's seen as a loss of potential profit, not only from the female demographic but those in the male demographic put off by the stigma of a hobby being seen as something only fat autistic guys would enjoy You need to stop thinking there's some insidious sjw plot behind everything when almost all of these decisions come down to making money
Jeremiah Wright
There's an old patriarchial idea that only things men do have value. "Progressives" who don't question that feel that in order for women to be respected, they must do the same things men do, rather than attributing value to things women already do.
Ryan Gray
I said no /pol/ shit. I wanna have a serious discussion about this.
Men are not allowed to have things for themselves. That's why boys scouts are bad, but girls scouts good.
Jace Young
Money. That is it. Investors see only males as their product's consumers as half of the population not being customers, and that's bad thing. I'm sure there's a few that earnestly believe in the whole sjw feminazi bullshit, but its mostly that.
It's bad thing because corporations want their product to have both genders as customers for maximum profit. However, trying to fix this somehow to appeal to women is stupid because their product was never marketed as a gender specific thing. The demographics have been there for decades, it's never changed so attempting to change it and possibly get the ire of a ton of established fans is stupid. Franchises and products can stand out to men and women, think about how many female Zelda fans there are but it's stupid to waste a ton of money in "market research" to try to win an audience over that was never really there.
