Feminism has ruined "guess who" for me

Interesting zombie thread. Who'd have thought thinking cartoon pictures of women in a game could be so controversial? Our Guess Who is 50/50 so kudos to PP if they got Hasbro to see that women are reality, not a rare characteristic.

Interesting how different the responses are between 2015 and now!

I can only assume w88wes posted spam as the post was deleted.

I haven't seen a good witchy get your husband back spell for a while

What on earth got this five year old thread dredged up???

CranberriesChoccy snigger....

If it's so unimportant then there would be no problem with reversing the proportions and having a female as default one.
In fact, if there was no issue, it would already be there somewhere.

so instead of asking eg 'do they wear glasses?' she would ask 'have they got a pet dog? do they like ice cream? how old are they?
was v funny to watch

John Finnemore did a live version of that in his show, got about 20 people up, one was picked when he wasn't looking and he then asked questions like "do they own a dog?". It was funny how much the audience agreed when shouting the answer. I think he got down to about 3 people before making a mistake.

I'm trying to imagine 2 TRA's playing it.

P1: "Is yours a man?"

P2: 😏

@Danielle11: if it's so unimportant one simple request should be enough to get the manufacturers to reverse the proportions.

Actually, you can't tell which are men and women at all. It's transphobic to assume anyone's gender identity based on their appearance donchaknow? Shouldn't they have to display their pronouns?

I had never noticed this imbalance but the game always makes me laugh because I remember a friend playing it with DD (I guess she was about 6) and friend getting frustrated because DD could not get that her questions needed to be based on the pictures she could see...so instead of asking eg 'do they wear glasses?' she would ask 'have they got a pet dog? do they like ice cream? how old are they?
was v funny to watch

It's easily solved by asking "do any of yours identify as women". Result!

ZOMBIE ALERT!!

Oh come on, this is ridiculous! Think about it... There are more men because they have beards, bald heads and mostauches, so there's more questions to ask about them.

Next we'll be hear it's transphobic as there's only two genders...

yea i just realised some of the things i said didnt make sense (it was like 12 in the morning :P and mind when i post this i really didnt read many of the replys because i just want to say yes some of the things is said is kinda dumb) and sometimes you do have a good point but yes buffy you do have a point its that sometimes in this case , one of you said that women are mostly depicted as weak and some times slow in tv, and yes that is true and it sometimes just disgusts me on how that happens, but sometimes they depict men as brutes, dumb, heavy , and other bad things and it is also that young boys are (sometimes) depicted as bullys in there school and it disgusts me that to say girls are most likley to verbally bully then again this is just something i heard about not actual fact. but sometimes sexist jokes are taken to seriously like lets say like a famous man says some type of sexist joke against women on socail media how would you react? what if a women said a sexist joke against men on socail media would you still react the same way? for me it depends, is the joke nt a joke and a real verbal attack on the oppistite gender? if it where just a joke i would smirk a bit but not so much of a chuckle would escape my mouth. but i do agree with some of you, and i really hope they will stop making men on tv, dumb, heavy, and being a narcisist and other things, and they would stop making women in tv look weak, dumb, and other things as well and to lighten up the mood have this ling c: www.deviantart.com/art/THE-BUTT-WALK-518269127

WOC face sexism as well as racism

You should go and read the OP from that thread again.

^That doesn't mean that every single woman has it worse than every single man, because that's obviously not true. It means that if you take a person born into the same class, same race, same ability/disability, same sexuality, it's pretty likely that the man will be advantaged over the woman.

Feminists work to redress that balance^

That would only seem to work for women who only feel oppressed by sexism, i.e. white, middle class women. You should read the thread on feminism for women of colour. Women cannot help women of colour without addressing racism, they cannot help the economically disadvantaged women without addressing classism, and so on.

Fay, would you go onto a thread discussing the race of characters in GW, where the participants in the thread were predominantly non Caucasian, and ask them why they weren't discussing the percentage of female characters?

Or is this another example where feminism is supposed to take responsibility for everything within and without its stated remit?

Well said, Buffy.