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          Is Duke Nukem Sexist?</font></p>
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          <font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Stephanie &quot;<a target="" href="mailto:bobbi@loonygames.com">Bobbi</a>&quot; 
          Bergman</font></b></font></p>
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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is something 
          worth considering. <b>Duke</b> is huge, nobody can deny that. But as 
          this informal poll shows, the majority of people find <b>Duke</b> to 
          be sexist. Assuming sexist can be defined as "offensive to women" (which 
          may be an incorrect assumption, so this is merely conjecture), it can 
          be concluded that the majority of people who like <b>Duke 3D</b> also 
          find it offensive in one form or another.</font> </p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pornography 
          is often seen to be offensive to women, to be sexist. However, the people 
          who find it offensive wouldn't be seen watching it. Some people are 
          incredibly offended by fur, be it for coats, clothes, whatever. You 
          won't find them wearing fur. Why is it that people are offended by this 
          game, and still play it?</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Doesn't make 

          much sense, does it.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The responses 
          follow. Read them and make up your own mind. Are you blindly accepting 
          something offensive? Or do you agree with Mark "Bastard" Surfas, "I 
          found the strippers in <b>Duke3D</b> to be 'fun' and 'cool.'" Also following 
          are comments from George Broussard, partner and project leader on <b>Duke</b>. 
          Due to the possible inflammatory nature of this article, we felt it 
          only fair to allow 3D Realms a chance to see the article before hand, 
          and comment on it.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Everyone will 
          have their own opinion. It's when the opinions conflict within one person 
          that this gets interesting. What do you think? <a href="../../../feedback.1">Let 
          us know</a>.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Matt "Toxin" 
          Anderson:</b> To tell you the truth, I don't have very much of an opinion 
          on the subject. :) There is definitely a demand for strippers in <b>Duke 
          4</b> from male <b>Duke</b> fans. I doubt that having strippers would 
          increase sales for male fans, because they will buy the game anyway, 
          although it might decrease sales among female fans. The thing is, I 
          don't think there are any female <b>Duke</b> fans. :) Could be wrong 
          there though. 3D Realms is really just going for the male computer gaming 
          market. Rant: I think <b>Tomb Raider </b>is more sexist than <b>Duke 
          Nukem</b>. People thought it was so great that there was finally a female 
          character in a game, and that it was great for female gamers, etc. If 
          you're a female gamer that plays <b>Tomb Raider</b>, great. But to think 
          that <a href="http://www.eidosinteractive.com">Eidos</a> was going for 
          the female market with <b>Tomb Raider</b> is BS. Her outrageously oversized 
          breasts should give it away.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Atari:</b> 
          Good female characters give me more incentive to buy a game. I enjoy 
          playing females more than males. Especially when I feel I can relate 
          to the character. This is why I do not like the characters in <b>Forsaken</b>, 
          or <b>Space Bunnies Must Die</b>.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I would rather 
          play a male oriented game than one with cheesy "chicks". </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Duke 3D is male 
          oriented... there are some really annoying scenes with cheesy chicks, 
          but in scale with some of the other games out there, it doesn't really 
          focus on it as much. The game is about a buff soldier dude running around 
          and shooting shit.... and that it what they were looking for when they 
          made the game. <b>Duke3D</b> doesn't piss me off nearly as much as a 
          game like <b>Space Bunnies Must Die</b>. It's more annoying than angering 
          to me. On the other hand, over the years I can accept that I may have 
          become a bit insensitive towards sexism in male oriented games. But, 
          if they made a game with just as good of an engine, and a female I could 
          look up to as one of the characters, I would be more likely to buy the 
          "female friendly" game over <b>Duke3D</b>. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font size="-1"><sup>*</sup></font>Charles 
          "Bedman" Bedford:</b> A little womanizing perhaps, but I wouldn't say 
          sexist. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font size="-1"><sup>*</sup></font>Stevie 
          "Killcreek" Case:</b> Yes. I didn't really enjoy the game. When I first 
          played it I wasn't really a hard-core gamer, I had just started getting 
          into <b>Doom </b>and some of those games, and you know, I got through 
          the first couple of levels, and felt like this is isn't something I 
          can enjoy. I'll admit freely I didn't give it a full chance and didn't 
          try to appreciate the gameplay, just because I found so many other things 
          offensive. I know it's tongue in cheek, and I know it's supposed to 
          be fun, but it's a little beyond what I can appreciate. It's disappointing 
          to see games that are that way, but there are more women in gaming. 
          I think we're going to see less of that, games still have to appeal 
          to everybody. At the time, and even now, it is still a predominately 
          male market, and that sells. Although it's changing and we're seeing 
          lots more female characters in games...idealized, but they're there. 
          That's what sells, easy sell right there. But we're getting there. Bombshell's 
          interesting. It's nice to see a woman in a game, I suppose, but it's 
          just that ridiculous body image we're forced to look at constantly. 
          You look at advertising everywhere, that's what sells. We're getting 
          there, and I guess we just have to look at that as a step in the right 
          direction.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Coryfro:</b> 
          I say it's sexist...I also think it's funny...now...it's funny the first 
          time you hear it... after that, it's a sexist <b>Doom</b> take off...you 
          want to know what really offends me? It's an <i>Army of Darkness</i> 
          rip off. </font></p>
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