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: KJ (owlmoose) wrote,
2011-03-26 16:37:00

KJ
owlmoose
2011-03-26 16:37:00

When companies do awesome things

Straight guy complains about gay romance in Dragon Age 2 (including a blanket dismissal of women gamers, as a bonus); BioWare employee tells him to "get over it".

The BioWare response makes me so happy. It is just about perfect. He even cites male privilege. I thought about saying more, but the blog entry linked above pulls the right quotes and does a great analysis, so anything I might add would be redundant; just go read it. So, so excellent.

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Tags: civil rights, dragon age, omg yay, the media, videogames

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