pop quiz, buckos.
if you walk up to a coversation with multiple males talking about video games, what do you say to be a stereotypical female?
"i love ms. pac man!"
why?
it was made before you were born, was a horrible franchise that only continued to get worse, you picked at random a horrible sequel that was just a rehash of the original, and the last time you played it was years ago, you were drunk, and you didn't get past the second level.
this is essentially the equivalent of walking into a group of people talking about independent cinema and saying "i love police academy 4!"
go ahead and reread the prior paragraph, it fits.
so why does every girl do this? what's so special about ms. pac man that makes it the singular video game love for girls who don't play video games? is it the fact that it is one of the few games of your childhood that had a herione? news flash, it's just pac MAN in drag. it's just a bow, even. they were really stretching gender roles for the time. i suppose giving pac man some gigundo hooters might have tarnished these poor girls' identity roles, however.
maybe all these girls saw ms. pac man as their female ideal, which is why america is the most obese country in the world.
then they turned teen and they discovered cosmo. all of the sudden these girls weren't rotund, they were waifs. had ms. pac man lied to them? NO! Cosmo must be lying! Stop setting these horrible ideals for little girls!
bah, i just want to go snowboarding now. who's in?
if you walk up to a coversation with multiple males talking about video games, what do you say to be a stereotypical female?
"i love ms. pac man!"
why?
it was made before you were born, was a horrible franchise that only continued to get worse, you picked at random a horrible sequel that was just a rehash of the original, and the last time you played it was years ago, you were drunk, and you didn't get past the second level.
this is essentially the equivalent of walking into a group of people talking about independent cinema and saying "i love police academy 4!"
go ahead and reread the prior paragraph, it fits.
so why does every girl do this? what's so special about ms. pac man that makes it the singular video game love for girls who don't play video games? is it the fact that it is one of the few games of your childhood that had a herione? news flash, it's just pac MAN in drag. it's just a bow, even. they were really stretching gender roles for the time. i suppose giving pac man some gigundo hooters might have tarnished these poor girls' identity roles, however.
maybe all these girls saw ms. pac man as their female ideal, which is why america is the most obese country in the world.
then they turned teen and they discovered cosmo. all of the sudden these girls weren't rotund, they were waifs. had ms. pac man lied to them? NO! Cosmo must be lying! Stop setting these horrible ideals for little girls!
bah, i just want to go snowboarding now. who's in?
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Edited to say: A friend huh? Sure! I couldn't see through that one!
[Edited on Oct 23, 2003 9:01AM]