GTA V has little room for women except to portray them as strippers, prostitutes, long-suffering wives, humorless girlfriends and goofy, new-age feminists we’re meant to laugh at. Characters constantly spout lines that glorify male sexuality while demeaning women, and the billboards and radio stations of the world reinforce this misogyny, with ads that equate manhood with sleek sports cars while encouraging women to purchase a fragrance that will make them “smell like a bitch.” Yes, these are exaggerations of misogynistic undercurrents in our own society, but not satirical ones. With nothing in the narrative to underscore how insane and wrong this is, all the game does is reinforce and celebrate sexism. The beauty of cruising in the sun-kissed Los Santos hills while listening to “Higher Love” by Steve Winwood turns sour really quick when a voice comes on the radio that talks about using a woman as a urinal.
- Carolyn Petit, Gamespot review of GTA V (via femfreq)
How fucking dare you oppress urinals and other urinalkin. I'll have you know I suffer from PTSD, hypopostcircumdepression, and transanxsiety. It's not easy finding my true identity after thinking I was turnipkin, armpitkin, seaweedkin, and basketballkin. I support LGBTQAIOEISNEU$@#$SSQUWEURQ because LOVE IS LOVE and yeah i identify as a urinal but I think im attracted to circumidealism and quickscopekin SO YOU CAN STOP TRIGGERING ME AND OTHER URINALKIN AND YOU CANT JUDGE ME BECAUSE I AM WHO I AM HAPPY IN MY OWN SKIN <3
k bye
