Absolutely! (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, September 28, 2015, 03:36 (3389 days ago) @ narcogen

It is a bigger problem! However, it starts with the balance. The first problem that a game can have is no portrayal at all. Then it can portray women as inferior or subservient, or use them merely as symbols for telling men's stories. Destiny avoids some of these but not all.

Balance is not nessesary within an individual work. If I have a story to tell about men, for men, there is nothing wrong with that. The problem exists when there is imbalance across a wider range of works. If some games tell male stories, some should tell female stories. That is the purpose of the bechdel test: not to vilify individual works that do not pass it, but to show in aggregate how women are under represented.

Counting women in an individual video game means nothing.