Sounding out Sexism in Video Games | Milena Droumeva | TEDxSFU

[@cancelanime1507]

Remember when TED talks were actually interesting?

[@adamayoubi5657]

Take a seat

[@alyssaperez6647]

anakin would not approve.

[@chadchaddington3646]

Pepperidge farms remembers

[@marcosmos7478]

when? never?

[@jeffreybesus2397]

No

[@vinnylt2408]

"I didn't play video games as a child" Turns off video..

[@rekkasketch4659]

Exactly. No knowledge at all about what she's talking about

[@904Phoniex]

Simple

[@cedrichabschi7312]

@@904Phoniex hey giorno

[@blaazer9473]

"I didn't play video games, I read books." Cringe. lol

[@DaveGSx7]

"i rEaD bOoKs" 🙄

[@itssenpaitime7680]

Blaming violence on video games, is like blaming car crashes on hot wheels

[@samiscoolyaysamiscoolyay4174]

legend

[@KingTai64]

Still waiting on what particular Video games the Templars and the Aztecs were playing.

[@nooby_4549]

Based

[@wintergirll]

It’s part of a bigger problem. It’s naive to think it isn’t.

[@dinosaur_man321]

true

[@bobafett8637]

The tomb raider one was breathy and up to the mic because she's out of breath, has just been impaled, and just fell like 20ft.

[@longagaming9208]

Destroyed with straight facts

[@jeffreybesus2397]

Yes.

[@Aiko_63194]

2:03 you’re just bullying the voice actor..

[@Chaotic_Observer]

Who is a female might i add. Nothing like making women feel empowered by bringing another woman down

[@mrs.chandler9384]

I remember when Ted Talks were intelligent

[@lordofthememes6016]

lol ikr

[@MOMOFCJ6]

Hello fellow commie

[@bluesaiyan3232]

She points out probably only Japan games with bikini armor

[@cedrichabschi7312]

She points out hentai games from p*** adds lel

[@lillrice27]

@@cedrichabschi7312 probably 💀

[@salamandersaladman]

I love how this is probably one of the least viewed ted talks of all time lol

[@shkwhksvisbo4512]

Yeah this kinda highlights the problem she is talking abt tho...

[@stovekarl8679]

And it has 800% more dislikes than likes, i think that says something about the content

[@takashinguyen4410]

The ratio of dislikes though

[@velanciogois4254]

ppl who didnt add views to this are so lucky lol

[@jacobc8036]

What about that one where a lady is basically saying she wants a fit rich guy to date...but is overweight to the point walking on stage makes he gasp for air.

[@gaz3606]

1:54 Wow, looks like she's criticising the japanese female voice actress in their own japanese video games, which caters to japanese fans and weebs

[@pigeon4422]

Half of that was out of context too... Really? Put that in gameplay, and maybe it won't sound like they're being... Assaulted... Like she implies. That also do be the style just a bit tho

[@jacklazzaro9820]

Where do these sound effects come from?

[@Wyladd]

Thank for telling me, my fellow weab. We'll get right on top of this.

[@jeffreybesus2397]

I dont play games like that lol I D O N T L I V E I N A B A S M E N T

[@deadsk3t826]

She didn’t even try to explain the sounds

[@sparko3178]

Women have deep voices according to her.

[@CEOofKivotos]

Yo me

[@giselengimbi2705]

wtf

[@buttlicker48]

Thanks pucci

[@danielricardo8544]

Thanks pucci

[@thatboi1281]

imagine a woman in a cooking game who sounds like kratos bruh

[@domsbusdriver4888]

This shouldn't be TEDxSFU it really should be TEDxSTFU

[@nigward229]

Loooooooooooooooool

[@obamaman2132]

This man is a legend

[@markey412]

BaDum Tsss

[@gufestus4106]

You made a better point than the thing in the video

[@sitmanlife6209]

I didn't play games as a child, I read books I don't care

[@christiansposito2480]

We dont care

[@T0MB_G00N]

I also don't care

[@iasked147]

Me living area 51 with the one who asked

[@kasraasadi8826]

We are holding an unknown scp who is known as someone who actually cared

[@mustard4762]

Just a reminder, the Japanese once said "Customers like beautiful stuff, so we make all of our games and characters beautiful and cute" And cuz of that, they are successful

[@KorpsePaintKlown]

How dare Lara Croft vocalize her pain and suffering as she’s horribly wounded and having to see things that would traumatize literally anyone

[@treacherousjslither6920]

I don't think that we have trouble relating to female heroes in our society. I have seen so many movies, books, TV shows, video games with great female heroes. Ever heard of Ellen Ripley? Or Shepherd? Or Motoko Kusanagi? Or Alita?

[@NecroUndine559]

@@CoylerProductions ok boomer

[@evanceneviva7939]

Ever heard of Metroid? Samus?

[@brandonp6880]

A good character is a good character no matter how they look or what their gender is I will relate to someone for who they are.

[@comradejojo8412]

look at doom annihilation u think this is right

[@shadowcolossus8045]

Samus or Clementine or Ellie from The Last of Us. And yes! I almost forgot Amanda Ripley, great character!

[@Luka-zi9kv]

Okay so her problem is with anime games, yet she’s blaming video games as a whole?

[@tyleryoung7402]

I'm not even to sure if it's politically correct to call whatever this is a woman

[@Draftspike]

Tyler Young you know what, I agree

[@alienduce-unocero]

@Matthew Creighton mneeh

[@mrosskne]

she's just making whatever noises will make people donate to her gofundme.

[@erissablackthorn9444]

So she wants women in video games to sound like they are struggling to take a dump? I do play Elder Scrolls and a previous Breton female character of mine certainly made some questionable sounds that made her look psycho... That what she's looking for?

[@FuhzyLiquids]

Soul calibur women sound like they are getting it balls deep when they get it lol

[@anintruder3157]

Jesus Christ lady just play Roblox.

[@MistaZipps]

She looks and acts like a goddang Roblox character.

[@mustard4762]

@@MistaZipps even shaped like one

[@jinolin9062]

Mayonaisse omg yes she looks like the the girls with the full block bodies and none block arms I saw a few years ago 😭

[@vijeshkumar692]

😂😂

[@trafikowns8260]

@@MistaZipps Roblox characters are considered beautiful compared to her

[@phinksguccisuit4272]

She said she plays videogames i guess she played mario cart once then said she was a gamer

[@pjadhav5078]

"Oh, girls r over sexualised in games." *male character being absolute chads, with a 6 pack, 7 ft and a chin sharper than a samurai sword. (Also only having a ground cover.)*

[@wintergirll]

Cause Michael and Trevor from GTA are real sexualised… 🙈

[@FuhzyLiquids]

@@wintergirll what point are u making

[@aryan7767]

yes, and which gender was making this game??

[@ALHELAL-eu2ue]

@@aryan7767 who gives a sh*t?

[@mrosskne]

azur lane's CEO is a woman btw

[@morbidmoscow4490]

End it please

[@Justin-vq9co]

She is such a strong woman, that she has to nitpick that she doesn't feel like other people represent her the way she wants to be seen in video games,

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

frfr no cap lmmfao

[@Aiko_63194]

That haircut says it all

[@only2genderkennder268]

Amen! Lol KAREN ALERT KAREN ALERT

[@russmayos3694]

Damn hahahahah

[@AntonGudenus]

"I can only emphatize with characters, that look and sound just like me" And that's basically the antithesis to a gamer. For crying out loud, nobody actually looks like or sounds like Mario in real life. (Even the legend Charles Martinet, puts on an absurd voice to speak Marios voicelines) And I have yet to meet Crash Bandicoot in real life.

[@tjtheprince6634]

I feel like, honestly, she is picking out only games that benefits her beliefs. She doesn't want to talk about metroid, tomb raider, or assassins creed odyssey, to name a few, because it doesn't help her case. She wants to nit pick her games because she wants to be right.

[@UrBrethren]

She did talk about Tomb Raider

[@FuhzyLiquids]

She isn't a gamer. I doubt she played even one game ever through it's entirety. That's fine and all but makes for a poor discussion/talk unless they are also talking to non gamers

[@hadeseye2297]

Crash Bandicoot. ;)

[@phatmartyplays332]

Imagine going to see this live

[@Vodkaman007]

I would cry my eyes out for my lost money tbh

[@Skeletoncross]

It would be a like a certain g4 episode

[@Dhuxul9]

😂

[@JosiahJS976]

1:54 I legitimately cringed at that point.

[@jeffreybesus2397]

Who didnt

[@iarrived731]

I lost more brain cells than when I was arguing with anti vaxxers

[@Mostwantedtbest]

and then there was her reactions...

[@dissapointmentmanchase1796]

0:00-14:52 (wrong)

[@linkfromzelda1002]

Ok Donald Trump

[@PaniniBoi69]

@@linkfromzelda1002 hahahahaha... stop it is wrong... it’s all g I’m a girl so I say it she’s fukin wrong

[@magnesium3273]

Damn

[@magnesium3273]

@@linkfromzelda1002 why don't you just put link

[@linkfromzelda1002]

@@magnesium3273 Because it made me put something as my last name.

[@alexanderwright2846]

fun fact about me: i have the logo for metroid tattooed on my arm....im also a guy :) becAuse samus a bad strong bish. Who ironically DOES NOT WEAR A BIKINI.

[@chillmoney3858]

Well there was that one time...

[@frhate]

You obviously didn't complete the first game fast enough then

[@phoenixc108]

I mean she does but hey she's still a badass when she does.

[@peeledrat3568]

She does not look like she plays games

[@shkwhksvisbo4512]

And what exactly does someone who “looks like she plays games” look like?

[@linkfromzelda1002]

@@shkwhksvisbo4512 Not that.

[@russmayos3694]

@@shkwhksvisbo4512 your question has been answered

[@dogski2822]

Nobody going to mention how she called gaming “video gaming”?

[@Garry_Combine]

But she "is a gamer", lol, this whole video be cringe

[@coolintuitivename4910]

TEDxSFU. More like TEDxSTFU

[@youraveragemango8671]

This woman is actually claiming that the first radios were sexist because, apparently, when they were first created, men made it so that women’s voices couldn’t be intelligible. That’s possibly the stupidest point I’ve ever heard.

[@thenazguy]

so the only good female characters are the ones portrayed as masculine figures with no weaknesses? sounds like the movie Mulan....

[@goukeban6197]

I assume you are talking about the remake. 1998 Mulan was great.

[@thenazguy]

@@goukeban6197 actually I was talking about the new movie where mulan is too powerful from the start. The only hardship she faced was practically just misogyny and even that is very unrealistic considering the type of misogyny they had in the actual history of the whole world even since it wasn't just about degrading women and more about traditional morals.

[@Vman_95]

I swear even guys who play video games don't care about these things. we don't wanna watch women even in gta loading screens in bikinis.🤣

[@fantoniumnitrous]

Gta isn't even meant for everyone dude.

[@colbymiller440]

The easiest way to make a likable female character is not to keep saying that she’s a women over and over

[@thebetterterrablade809]

ON MY MOMMA CUH

[@tadiwrr]

if they wanna play female characters go make their own games arent they dempowered you can program their own games

[@solidshrek]

Damn that's cool and all but ion remeber asking

[@gatto4240]

Autist Shrek why you watching then

[@solidshrek]

@@gatto4240 no one can resist to watch the video seeing that cancerous title

[@gatto4240]

Autist Shrek fair

[@kungpulor1095]

im a banana

[@hamzacod8178]

ION Remember being gey

[@uvitauwu7237]

11:19 she clearly haven't play league of legends..

[@thetostplayertv]

you should come to our cherry field this summer so you can help us with the picking, you seem to be awfully good at it

[@thorus1596]

Best comment ever

[@floridasunshine5323]

Remember when Ted Ed was actually had info behind it ?

[@BonezyBoy]

This is TEDx so it’s indepent

[@BonezyBoy]

@LOLer ikr

[@chrizz_6786]

10:12 i don't get the point your trying to make here she is in pain and also failed her objective, do you want her to grunt like a man or what

[@manuelcamarillo2769]

Remember when ted talks where educational

[@vinnylt2408]

They forgot the "T" in SFU

[@Dutchmaster707]

I would’ve walked out to get a bagel after hearing the first sentence

[@davso91]

Neil Druckmann was there

[@thesimplestickman]

no one wonder the tlou 2 is feminine

[@only2genderkennder268]

@@thesimplestickman LMAO

[@thesimplestickman]

@@only2genderkennder268 3 months now and I regretted that.

[@only2genderkennder268]

@@thesimplestickman BRU 🤣🤣🤣

[@auuuzz]

"I didn't play video games as a child" Ok bye

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

frfr no cap

[@briannedd5851]

Ok..more of women wanting to be like men in a nutshell.

[@Garry_Combine]

*F E M I N I S M and actual racism towards japanese culture because it doesn't conform to SJW's morals or outlook intensifies*

[@GM-tf4em]

11:55 she's critiquing them for being japanese female characters lol

[@yoshikazuikeda]

Ratio: *Likes* 317 *Dislikes* 4.9K Nice.

[@hadeseye2297]

Some people can't understand *ENTERTAINMENT!* And when you play Crash Bandicoot? Do you feel welcomed? Represented? IMMERSED? He's not even a human damb witch!

[@historyteacher2149]

1:54 Oh I guess she's supposed to sound like POP SMOKE

[@trichsert206]

I was about to comment my thoughts on this, but then I saw the dislikes and was like ok this speaks more than 1000 words

[@ShortsFromNicc]

I don’t understand. If you don’t like the game, don’t play it. Nobody is going to change their game because some Karen is mad.

[@crazycactuar1465]

Gamers: Self sustaining and peaceful community of people who just want to play games People after 2019: Let's have a war on them for no particular reason

[@ItzFoxUwU]

INDEED

[@SCP--ws2uw]

if they want war we'll give them war.

[@Garry_Combine]

Change that to 2014 and we're good!

[@cesarst3720]

It started in 2014.

[@muhdiversity7409]

The proto HR lady that infects all game studios now.

[@vincentadultman6226]

thankfully it's limited to western studios. maybe it's a psyop by the uggos to make themselves more palatable

[@trainvviz3651]

I watched this video to help me vomit

[@Garry_Combine]

Good advice friend, it actually works!

[@DualStupidity]

Imagine taking unattractive men's complaints about attractive men in media seriously.

[@kentuckyfriedchicken2614]

Well if it wasnt for game culture, especially halo, there wouldnt be female-voiced AI that u glorified. GG

[@sitmanlife6209]

READING A BOOK AS A FEMALE IS HE SAME AS READING IT AS A MALE

[@Tecilis]

These noises exist cuz game compamies main audiance are men cuz they play the most games or video games and when i say games i mean fps games not tetris on you phone or candy crush so why would they adapt to a audiance who wont buy the product if they do it right, but still conplain when they don't

[@realimereads2707]

What exactly would "doing it right" entail? I'm curious as someone who's wants to get more into gaming.

[@Tecilis]

@@realimereads2707 making a game that is not "sexist" and without this noises.

[@realimereads2707]

@@Tecilis I get the noises but just saying sexist is a little broad since I find that the meaning differs for people. Oh and I thought of a reason they might want to adapt to an audience you think won't buy the product - if they actually do it right, woman who might have been averse to playing these games might warm up to the genre, this getting the company (hopefully significantly) more sales.

[@Tecilis]

@@realimereads2707 i can name several games compamies who have adapted but they did not sell better or even worse then the predecesors.

[@realimereads2707]

@@Tecilis What kind of adaptations that would warrant people not buying them? There could be other reasons those games were avoided.

[@widerje]

Western women and all their "suffering"?? I've been to Afghanistan, the women would give anything to live in a "problematic, patriarchy" country like America. Appreciate your blessings KAREN

[@aryan7767]

brother, 2 wrongs don't make a right lmao. what a pathetic mindset

[@NameSpaceVoid]

@@aryan7767the whole point is that it’s not 2 wrongs. Western women have one of the most privileged positions in society but still have the audacity to get on stage and complain how they still don’t run the world

[@aryan7767]

what?@@NameSpaceVoid

[@aryan7767]

your mother and sister can vote today and have some basic human rights in your home country because women in comparitively privileged countries fought for the right to vote @@NameSpaceVoid

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

she is KAREN lmmfao no cap

[@xxpurplexxrosexx]

don't mind me, just here to read the comments 🍿

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

same here bro no cap lmmfao

[@ed743-m4t]

23M sub channel with 2K views lol 0.01% of their subscribers watched this.

[@AbdulKareem-yi7oq]

"i do like video games" lying in da highest order

[@princesstoadstool5511]

Ight, Imma go play some Animal Crossing.

[@SamuraiKamenX]

So your saying I should've become a terrorist instead of playing games

[@kevinthatcher2376]

So when does elle sound like this? Or abbie, lara croft, Sadie, woman in uncharted? She is really judging jrpg and fighting games, play the man's voices from those time games, there pretty much the same.

[@happyvolts]

exactly lmfao

[@krismas7531]

Did she just diss our Queen Bayo? BRUH SAKURA IS A YOUNG GIRL WITH HER YOUTH, OF COURSE SHE IS GONNA BE HAPPY GO LUCKY. It's.Called.CHARACTER.

[@MS-zs1ze]

She plays sudoku on her phone

[@byennbye]

Here's a solution *DONT PLAY VIDEO GAMES*

[@Luingi]

I don’t think she knows what the word hentai means...

[@gyrozeppeli3590]

I literally can’t anymore

[@pmcollectorboy2929]

"SFU" Missing a letter there.

[@alexalexander8053]

"T"

[@talonvoidgeist2386]

Woman with a masculine haircut and masculine clothing style and no makeup wants to live out her fantasies in videogames as male characters and doesn't like traditionally feminine characters. Nobody is surprised. Why did we need a ted talk for this?

[@anticommunist840]

They forgot T in SFU

[@noahsanders9720]

You ever herd of tomb raider, where Lara Croft doesn’t make any of those sounds.

[@jangofett1623]

I also love how more people disliked the video than like dit

[@tanneredge9774]

I'm sorry but I died of laughter when she started playing the voiceovers.

[@SEREFKI]

she is blaming that the first machine voice is male, yet says that most machine voices now are female...

[@tbk29]

base on this presentation, I think she didn't read enough books.

[@imaboss641]

I’m convinced they gives anybody a Ted talk

[@TheHam295]

I mean I get it if some big company made this but these sound straight out of some Japanese hentai game 💀

[@Kokoalen]

The need to add the letter T in between that S and F

[@NikkiMcMistie]

Hah true

[@giovannilombardi2537]

I have no trouble imagining female hero’s lmao don’t tell me what I can and can’t comprehend. Lara Croft is probably one of my favourite characters.

[@Sumschmuck]

they just let anyone have the floor to these TED talks don't they?

[@AdeneTzr]

Feminists should never talk about sexism in video games when they can't beat an average 16 yo cod player in a 1v1

[@ballerinlife9512]

Tragedy... Ted used to be actually something

[@lordthicc-chunka9569]

Lara Croft?! Clementine?! Amecia?! Cortana?! Noble 2?! Senua?! Kait from Gears?! Michonne?! Maybe do more research next time

[@elgusaniiiodeljuego6823]

349 likes and 5419 dislikes (including mine). You're not a majority. This was a 5-year fad and now it's gone. If censoring fanservice and beauty in video games is still pertinent is only because this minoritary people occupy key positions in game consulting agencies and game media. Vote with your wallet folks.

[@Joel_Mullins06]

If she wants men to be able to understand a woman's perspective through videogames, I would play a dishwashing simulator.

[@Joel_Mullins06]

@Jesus Christ (stops forgiveness)

[@Magickills74]

You forgot the T between S and F

[@mtlee7420]

Ted I have a good memory with the channel,but now my sweet memory have been destroy all the things I learn ,know gone

[@blatancyproductions8246]

If you don’t like hot pot, don’t go eat it, it becomes a problem if you have to stop others eating it

[@rocksmoke3752]

We want a mission on womens like her in hitman 3

[@SuperBartles]

"30 years ago, reading books while female meant you become really good at identifying with a male perspective" Facetious counterargument: "Pride & prejudice was only written 29 years ago?" (also the Handmaid's tale was written in 1985, but you'd be forgiven for not bothering to read that) "Sound has a very sexist history!" No further comment needed on this one It goes on, but I think we've got the gist: vague, illogical thinking & meaningless political language are taken seriously these days - even applauded & taught in universities. This is one reason why divisive grievance politics is tearing us apart. It's a far bigger problem than female characters in games having higher-pitched voices than male characters, that's for sure

[@mrosskne]

First book in English by a female author (that we know of, obviously) is from 1670

[@exulium]

There are not that many comments and views here

[@tadiwashangwa4931]

I mean most game developers are men mayne women can just study computer science and make their own games?

[@kaleidoscopesoul6487]

They forgot the T is the SFU sign

[@fantasyforger]

10:11 ok so you tell me after you fall off at that height onto flat ground, impaled by a metal rod and not breathing like that ??????

[@lumpdump4924]

thats the EXACT thing i said

[@JiggyJ415]

Feminism, Liberals and SJW's ruined video games.

[@SolidRaiden2655]

IKR

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

@@SolidRaiden2655 frfr no cap