Pappy's Lambs....
Posted on 06/10/2018 1:39:20 PM PDT by Ennis85
The internet is in uproar (again). Developer DICE’s decision to include a woman on the cover art for this year’s Battlefield offering has, for some reason, antagonised the most vocal parts of the gaming internet.
Within minutes of DICE revealing its new game, detractors on reddit, Twitter and various online gaming forums were spouting their vitriol, furious that DICE had sacrificed authenticity in favour of ‘political correctness’.
Here’s the thing, though: it hasn’t. Women have always played a vital role in the World’s wars, and to ignore that is to be willfully ignorant. From soldiers enlisted in active duty to subversive volunteer groups formed wholly of women, (in)famous Soviet snipers to women providing artillery support for their male comrades, these wars were not won by men alone.
Battlefield V is going back to the World War II setting – something the series hasn’t done since 2010’s Battlefield 1943.
I like to think DICE knew it would immediately get backlash against its sensible decision to equalise the playing field, because in the reveal trailer, one of the first things you see is a mustachioed villain creeping over the player, putting his finger to his mouth – trying to silence you – before a woman leaps in from the side of the screen and cracks him in the head.
FORGET POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THIS IS HISTORICAL FACT
‘We won’t be silenced’ it seems to suggest, before showing off more of the game – more of the women – some of which are fitted with a prosthesis. This (surprise, surprise) also triggered some vocal gamers who thought this has all been added into Battlefield simply in a bid to ‘be inclusive’.
Wrong again, I’m afraid: if ‘realism’ really is your argument for not wanting to include women, disabled people or people of colour, you don’t have an argument — many groups of people fought (and died) in World War II… it wasn’t just straight white men.
As such, I highly praise DICE for its decision to show this in Battlefield V. Games (particularly first-person shooters) have focused on the heteronormative caucasian male for so, so long, and DICE and EA’s deviation from that standard deserves praise, not detraction. Whether a small (but vocal) part of the gaming community likes it or not, this will soon be the norm: the goal is equality.
Conversations online have sprung up talking about DICE ‘selling out’ or ‘giving in’ to political correctness. This perception is crazily off-kilter. As someone that’s been working in this industry for over five years and has had the pleasure of meeting developers in studios around the world, I promise you more game developers are on the side of equality than are against it.
I have no idea what Battlefield V is but my female high school trig teacher worked on the Manhattan Project.
99.99% of the fighting and dying in WW2 was by men.
Sales of the game will be the final arbiter determining if the current criticism is just a small group of mouthy gamers or not.
I’m reading that this has nothing to do with Political correctness and yet I have just seen a trailer where it looks like they’re going to throw in a lesbian storyline while they’re at it.
True, but a bullet fired by a female resistance fighter would kill a German as dead as one fired by a man.
Yeah. And in the greater scheme of the war it was inconsequential.
What a load...
Women have not been in combat for America’s wars ...
Women carried guns during the 1st Civil War...the American revolution...for protection while their men were gone or to fight for their homes alongside their husbands...and during the 2nd Civil War...AKA the War Between the States AKA the War of Northern Aggression...
But for the Spanish American War, WWI< WWII< Vietnam, Gulf War...women were not in combat...Just support...
In fact women couldn’t go to Nam unless they were nurses or supply clerks at least an E-4 (sergeant) rank...
Women have usually been behind the lines back home in the states or at a safe distance in a neighboring country...England during WWII in Europe...Australia during WWII with Japan...
To pretend differently is asinine...
It was only during Obama’s war that women were sent to the front lines...the females who demanded they go were too old to go themselves and had never been in the military...
Tennessee Nana
American veteran (female type)
Of interest ...
“As the résistante Germaine Tillon later recalled: “It was women who kick-started the Resistance.” Asked by a German court in Lyon in May 1942 why she had taken up arms, Marguerite Gonnet replied: “Quite simply, colonel, because the men had dropped them.” Yet women were removed from the front line when de Gaulle finally arrived, and passed over for military honours.”
Female snipers and aviators were very effective in the Red Army.
The Soviets tried putting women on the front line, that experiment didn’t last long.
And were a tiny fraction of the Red Army.
If none of them had fought the outcome would have been the same.
But lets make believe it was a big factor and con women into thinking they are just as tough as the men.
The only country I know of that had large numbers of women in combat was Russia. They had a night bomber squadron called The Night Witches, and a couple thousand female snipers, a task they found women well suited for. They also crewed tanks and made up a large portion of anti-aircraft gunners. Still they were only about 3% of the total combat forces.
Well that’s cute and all. Women were not on the front lines at least in US forces. They had ancillary positions. Even the pilots spent most of their time doing ferry work
Hardly on the front line or any where near battle
Nurses particularly in the Pacific theater were close to battle. They were not war fighters
And the Resistance was about the only place where women were war fighters
Pappy's Lambs....
But not in the US armed forces
I owned and played every Battlefield game until this one. Among the top 3 to me in terms of first shooter experience, but playing a chick or a broad, screw that. These clowns deserve the hate.
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