Here's the way I see it:
What if I were the host of On The Spot, and someone was bringing by Fable II? Now, personally...I don't want to talk about a game that involves sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality (and before you say it, no, I'm not a fucking bigot...let people love who they want). I wouldn't feel comfortable about those kinds of questions coming up, let alone reviewing a game that would involve them. Therefore, would I be allowed to say "hey, I don't wanna do this game...I'm gonna pull it from the show".
The idea that you are the host of a show means that you deal with the punches...period. If you don't like the way that women are presented in the world of gaming...yet you are going to don a bikini top yourself in front of Joust...or even go so far as to say that you have little qualm with DoA because of the humor in it...then it would seem fair to say, at least in my eyes, that you are an unfit host for the show. Instead, she pulls a game from the show that is made by a small developer that may not have had a chance otherwise to have their game seen somewhere. Those guys could, for all we know, be the next big thing and create the super-greatest game in the world. Thanks to this one fell swoop of feminist bullshit, a developer lost their chance of being able to get screen-time due to one person's uneasiness.
On top of which, most women that I've ever met seem to have NO PROBLEM with objectifying themselves...even going so far as to fuck with little or no care. They'll prance around in skimpy suits and tease like Hell. However, whenever they get noticed or are looked at as being attractive in some way, they start crying "gender-biased! gender-biased!". It's a ridiculous excuse.
An even bigger fact to me is that there have been a TON of great female lead characters in gaming history, so many that naming them right now would take for-fucking-ever.
I personally think that Kristin needs to offer an apology to the developers of the game for cutting their screen-time without much of a reason other than personal preference and the GameSpot community for her hypocrisy and denying them something to be shown.
Moreover, this battle can never end if people like Kristin don't STOP pushing the issue. The act of feminism leads to defensive maneuvers from the male community, and the act of chauvinism leads to defensive maneuvers from the female community. How about we just let shit be what it is? Sex sells, as does violence, drugs, and swearing. If it's something you don't like, then I guess you can change the world, eh?
The problem with changing the world is that, like assholes, everyone has an opinion...just like you, Kristin.
