Trolls Can’t Handle Women In Games

<p>When EA released the first look at <em>Battlefield 5<&sol;em>&comma; they should have been nervous&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re not talking about the typical nerves before releasing a trailer&period; Instead&comma; they should have been nervous about the backlash the game would get&period; I say <em>should<&sol;em>&comma; but that would mean that the backlash is justified&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Battlefield 5<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; it isn&&num;8217&semi;t&period; The backlash that EA received blatantly shows off the still lingering anti-female sentiment in video games&period; The problem in this particular case&quest; There were too many women in the game&&num;8217&semi;s trailer&period; Furthermore&comma; trolls are actively frothing at the mouth due to the fact that there&&num;8217&semi;s going to be female playable characters in the game&period; Right now&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s looking like many gamers still can&&num;8217&semi;t handle members of the finer sex&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While we haven&&num;8217&semi;t seen the issue rise to GamerGate levels&comma; the fact that women being in a war game seems to blow many gamers&&num;8217&semi; minds&period; Their reasoning&quest; Well&comma; women weren&&num;8217&semi;t in World War 2&comma; where <em>Battlefield 5<&sol;em> is set&period; This couldn&&num;8217&semi;t be further from the truth&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mashable&period;com&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;30&sol;soviet-women-snipers&sol;&num;fzs2CAVnQaqA">Russia had teams of female snipers<&sol;a>&comma; and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;telegraph&period;co&period;uk&sol;books&sol;what-to-read&sol;the-forgotten-women-of-the-french-resistance&sol;">France<&sol;a> had several prominent female soldiers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"fb1MR85XFOc" title&equals;"Battlefield 5 Official Reveal Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;fb1MR85XFOc"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;fb1MR85XFOc&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Battlefield 5 Official Reveal Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As EA&&num;8217&semi;s chief creative officer&comma; Patrick Soderlund noted in an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamasutra&period;com&sol;view&sol;news&sol;319787&sol;This&lowbar;is&lowbar;not&lowbar;okay&lowbar;EA&lowbar;minces&lowbar;no&lowbar;words&lowbar;on&lowbar;backlash&lowbar;against&lowbar;women&lowbar;in&lowbar;Battlefield&period;php">interview<&sol;a> about the trolls&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>These are people who are uneducated &&num;8211&semi; they don&&num;8217&semi;t understand that this is a plausible scenario&period; The common perception is that there were no women in World War II&period; There were a ton of women who both fought in World War II and partook in the war&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>&num;NotMyBattlefield<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Electronic Arts have made their position clear on the decision&semi; women in video games deserve to be represented&period; They made that decision when they put playable female characters in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;can-anything-shown-at-ea-play-make-up-for-the-battlefield-v-reveal&sol;"><em>Battlefield 5<&sol;em><&sol;a>&period; And they&&num;8217&semi;re sticking to it&period; However&comma; it looks likes trolls aren&&num;8217&semi;t going to go out easy&semi; &num;NotMyBattlefield trended on Twitter not long after the trailer was released&period; And the vitriol has been ongoing ever since&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean that developers need to bow to the minority&semi; in fact&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s quite the opposite&period; Women need to be more visible in the video game community&comma; and that means being well represented in the video games themselves&period; And if a minority of people don&&num;8217&semi;t like it&quest; Well&comma; as Mr&period; Soderlund puts it&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>Well&comma; you have two choices&colon; either accept it or don&&num;8217&semi;t buy the game&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m fine with either&sol;or&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And so are most other gamers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;