I was reading a post about this subject in particular, I gave my opinion about it in the video I posted down below, not sure if I am allowed to post anything as of yet, but since this is a ‘general discussion’ I decided to give it a go.
Back to the subject, in the video below, I take a look at why the heck (especially boys) don’t like female soldiers to be implented in their beloved franchise.
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Why would there be female soldiers in a WW1 game? weren’t most women either working in factories during the war or well behind the front lines preforming medical tasks?
I wouldn’t care if females were included - but if they’re not, why should anyone care?
If the “good” thing to do for people that don’t want females in the game is to not mind that there are female soldiers (in a war where not many females fought at all) in a game - why can people that want female soldiers in the game just not mind that game developers made a choice to not include them?
That’s basically saying that not wanting females to be in this game is objectively wrong, and that wanting them to be in the game is objectively right.
Either way - it’s a WW1 shooter, set in an era of warfare very few to almost no women actively fought in (from a military point of view). Saying women deserve to be in BF1 because of gender equality is about as logical as saying Master Chief should be a woman because of gender equality.
I totally agree with you. Some people might feel a bit upset for there not to be female soldiers. But there werent any female soldiers in WW1 because they believed that men were physically stronger. Women usually stayed at home and worked or went to the wars by helping medicaly.
I don’t get why anyone would get upset over not having female soldiers when there weren’t any during WW1. Then again apparently people got upset over an x-men poster so what do I know lol
Well there’s a difference - the automatic weapons included in the game actually existed and were used in battle to an extent in the war - female members of the military were not.
Yeah… true… just as there was never a british female robotic voice in World War 1 telling you telepathically that you are losing apples and butter even though you are a german soldier fighting for the german empire.
Well, I think anyways. Perhaps that’s what shellshock is like.
(1) I’m not sure why a company would be wise to give in the demands of a bunch sad basement dwellers. (2) That WWI was selected for the setting is not an innocent decision on the part of developers.
I like how so many people dismiss this and say “Women didn’t fight” or such.
There were women who fought in ww1, Russia had entire squads of female soldiers
There were more women soldiers then there were some of the weapons that we already know are in BF1. Like the “Rocket gun” (Bazooka didn’t come until ww2, there was no rocket gun in ww1).
So it makes little sense to NOT have women soldiers as a playable character in MP, yes there weren’t nearly as many women fighting as men, but they were there and it fits perfectly in terms of EA putting in other things that weren’t common.
Basically there’s no real reason to NOT have them, you allow for people to play the gender they want and it wouldn’t be entirely out of place either.
I read in a book about soldiers sneaking away from their post on the front one night and nailing a bunch of french ladies on the other side of a river, so I guess there were women on the frontline.
Cool. But as a male, I want my female friends be able to enjoy this game as much as I do and I think that since DICE went full out with “re-visioning” history as they thought that would work best in a battlefield game, a female soldier here and there for variety wouldn’t be so outlandish since everyone is also carrying fully automatic weapons and female soldier skins wouldn’t affect gameplay whatsoever.
Not surprised. The point was that the developers most likely chose the setting—WWI—because they would be free to exclude female soldiers on the grounds of “historical accuracy.” (Not to mention, glorify imperial warfare and mobilize a fetishized version of racial difference.) That such accuracy, as other people have noticed vis a vis weapons or revives or spawn beacons, comes as goes as necessary is beside the point. Battlefield, in general, has a lady problem. Or, should a say, a man problem: the bro-ey-ness of the official Twitter account, the intentional exclusion of females, and so on. The Battlefield community, as a whole, a sad version of a Judd Apatow movie: if only men could stop being afraid of homosocial bonding and relate to one another as equals (but that incessant raising and lowering of nuts upon corpses kinda gets in the way of that). The average Battlefield player is a afraid of vaginas and fascinated by penises. Both facts make the average Battlefield player uncomfortable. In all, it is a wonderful ideological fantasy to observe from the margins. Video games and video game players are very weird.
First off, Russia did not send female soldiers into frontline battles. They were snipers and scouts AT MOST, and their women didn’t play a more active role in warfare until after the 1930’s. Secondly, recoilless rocket rifles were in design during 1918.
I’m saying this as an egalitarian individual, not to discredit the idea of making female soldiers a thing in the Battlefield series. But it just doesn’t fit for the setting/time period.