This has been the case for years now, but it still boggles my mind. Gaming is an overwhelmingly male hobby. 90% of the people playing enthusiast level video games are male. Yet the clear majority of protagonists in these products are female.
New resident evil? Female protagonist.
New Ghost of Tsushima? Female protagonist.
New Hollow Knight? Female protagonist.
New Silent Hill? Female protagonist.
New World of Warcraft expansion? Female protagonist.
And that’s just the biggest trailers of the night. Gay ass indie is almost entirely female (or queer coded) characters.
Is there another industry that hates its own core customer base this much?
I could see the NFL having a female kicker one day and watch the hatred the player gets who tackles her when a kick is blocked or something
We’ve already seen it in college football.
Didn’t she run off the field as soon as she kicked? If they want to play so bad I don’t want to hear any complaints when they get steam rolled
Oh, you’ll hear them. Loud and constantly.
No female kicker will ever make a 65 yard field goal, or pin the ball into the endzone for a touchback. They just do not have the size and strength to do it, even though leg strength is one area they come closest to matching male performance. At the level of NFL kickers, the different still matters.
No argument from me but with the way they are pushing women in the NFL I think they would love to tout a female player
Coaches value performance more than looking "stylish", to use a Dirty Harry movie term. Women have never been barred from the NFL, they just have never been good enough to make a team.
Coaches will also bend over backwards for whatever the commission says, and the commission will have zero problem forcing women in, they already have as “coaches”. Money is on female extra point kickers in the next 10 years and the sport becoming even more neutered for to entice female “athletes” to play.
Agreed, I guess the NFL isn’t that crazy
Still no gender diversity in the NHL
There is. There's been multiple female NHL players throughout its history. Every time a female player becomes even almost as good as the worst pro male player, they get scooped up for the press benefit. Which was... twice in it's century-long history.
True.