Comments on: Are Video Games Manly?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:17:57 +0000

I read a comment, too lazy to point out which, which said men shouldn’t be playing GAMES, they should be playing football, or baseball, or going fishing.

Because those aren’t games. Seriously.

There isn’t a decent argument you can make for games being unmanly that does not also exclude Music, Film, and Literature.

Escapism is good in small doses. It prevents close mindedness, which I see quite a bit of in these comments.

By: Shoku

Shoku — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:50:08 +0000

Videogames are almost as unmanly as non-videogames like chess and football. What man would ever touch any of that?

Ok, the really big names in videogames basically work like movies. Once in awhile somebody does something artistic (and about as often somebody does something with merits like what gold ole chess has got,) but mostly people just put out action movies because it isn’t hard to get people to watch blood sprays, explosions, and exploding blood sprays. Next most common thing is bad drama and there’s just a little comedy left before you get to those rare two I mentioned up front.

So are movies manly? Some are, some aren’t, most are boyish or girlish so which ones are we talking about? Obviously you won’t see many people ouside of generation Y picturing their fathers engaging them but there was a time when people didn’t recall their fathers watching movies about cars chased by explosions even though practically all of our fathers watch those from time to time today.

By: E.J.

E.J. — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:21:24 +0000

Any recreational activity taken to extremes will lead to one to neglect other aspects of one’s life and therefore could be considered unmanly.

Especially sitting on the internet posting comments about what constitutes manliness.. (!)

Video games are likely to become more popular and ubiquitous than all other entertainment media within the next twenty years or so, like it or not.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

-Robert A. Heinlein

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:07:15 +0000

Playing video games isn’t any more or less manly than going to this site and reading about what it means to be man.

By: Paul C

Paul C — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:14:30 +0000

I kind of go with the gender neutrality issue…what I believe is that playing video games isn’t what makes one more (or less) manly, I just believe that it’s unmanly to be hooked on them to the point where nothing else in your life gets done.

I play my PS2 a few hours a day, but I also go to school and work during the day. I work in the film program at my school, and I do quite a bit in my normal day. Those guys who spend hours upon hours upon hours playing something like World of Warcraft to the point where they drop out of college, lose their jobs, lose their friends, or even DIE (read some of the headlines…it’s weird how addicted some people are), then that’s unmanly.