# Misogynistic and creepy or fun and liberating...or both? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397 "2005-08-10T03:37:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/41 "2005-08-11T01:26:18Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > She got wedged and I couldn’t move her. How do you make her move? Just click on her and drag. See, it was the “playing” with her I thought was satanic…or at least playing a not so benevolent god… And I wasn’t completely in earnest about the misogyny. It just that it was my SO that showed it to me, because he likes playing with women. But that because he’s a sadist and heterosexual not because he’s misogynist 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/42 "2005-08-11T01:51:35Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Ah, Google: > > [http://www.little-planet.net/](http://www.little-planet.net/) > > Bush, Blair, Bono and the Paris Hilton versions. Ya know what would be awesome? Bush, Osama, and Paris all falling at once! Maybe you could put Michael Jackson in there too. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/43 "2005-08-11T02:53:58Z")
I can only get the original to work . The others just open up a blank white page . It is strangly compelling to watch her fall . I would like to see the other games , too . ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/44 "2005-08-11T05:17:33Z")
Just fucking weird. I don’t think it actually IS misogynistic, but after a minute or so I started feeling guilty in case it was. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/45 "2005-08-11T06:07:09Z")
I think it’s a little misogynist. Why is she in undies if she wasn’t being somehow sexualized? And who sexualizes a completely passive woman (who some have mistaken as dead) who can be manipulated with your mouseclicks and lives in a world where every action causes pain? Creepy. Compelling. But creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/46 "2005-08-11T06:13:17Z")
> [@even sven](#): > > I think it’s a little misogynist. Why is she in undies if she wasn’t being somehow sexualized? And who sexualizes a completely passive woman (who some have mistaken as dead) who can be manipulated with your mouseclicks and lives in a world where every action causes pain? And now that there’s a Paris Hilton version, dozens of people are sure to write gender studies papers about it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/47 "2005-08-11T06:59:03Z")
> [@even sven](#): > > I think it’s a little misogynist. Why is she in undies if she wasn’t being somehow sexualized? Probably because it was easier than rendering an entire outfit, but at least the bikini was keeping her covered. I have my doubts that it’s sexist/misogynistic. This looks like something I would do, and certainly without spite for my own sex. I used to go to a website where you could build your own little 3D models, experiment with gravity, and let them loose to see what would happen. You could build things that moved very life-like, or very unnatural. They could float, fall, get hit and react, walk on their own, pull on a limb to “jerk” the object around, etc. You couldn’t put a skin on it, you just saw the basic framework of what you made, but honestly, this falling bunch of girl-shaped pixels reminds me very strongly of those little experiments, just with skin. Creepiness aside, I think they did a pretty good job. I don’t read much into it being a woman. Perhaps the designer was experimenting with making breasts? That takes extra vertices. Maybe it was an experiment gone wrong, and the result was amusing enough to share, if a little creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/48 "2005-08-11T07:22:08Z")
Was that [Sodaplay.com](http://Sodaplay.com), **Anastasaeon**? It’s very cool, although I could never build something that could walk longer than 8 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/49 "2005-08-11T08:09:03Z")
> [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > Was that [Sodaplay.com](http://Sodaplay.com), **Anastasaeon**? It’s very cool, although I could never build something that could walk longer than 8 seconds. SODAPLAY! No, that wasn’t it 😃 but that site was a LOT of fun (and similar to the site I mentioned), and after I wrote this post, I was beating my brain trying to remember that name! _Thank you!_ The other site had a weird name, as well, which I also cannot remember. ☹ My computer crashed a couple of weeks ago, and I lost all my bookmarks. That’s what I get for being lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/50 "2005-08-11T12:34:27Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > … Callista-na-Gig … Now **there** is a disturbing mental image! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/51 "2005-08-11T12:53:35Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Probably because it was easier than rendering an entire outfit, but at least the bikini was keeping her covered. Rendering her skin is just as difficult as rendering an outfit. Well, certainly not as difficult as rendering a flowing robe or something, but to just “skin” her in clothes like Bush or Bono is the same thing. I definitely see this as misogynistic and fun. But not creepy or liberating. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397/52 "2005-08-11T13:11:33Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Rendering her skin is just as difficult as rendering an outfit. > > Well, certainly not as difficult as rendering a flowing robe or something, but to just “skin” her in clothes like Bush or Bono is the same thing. You are right. I stand humbly corrected. I still don’t find it misogynistic, though. Kind of _kinky_, maybe… but that’s how my mind works. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogynistic-and-creepy-or-fun-and-liberating-or-both/316397.md?page=2)