Amazing new discovery

[aesmael]

    Turns out all those console and computer games I played were delusional, but not to fear, soon I can play real ones! Sony is bringing out pink psps and ps2s, hooray!
    Actually I wouldn't care except for lines like this: "Sony has decided to catch up to Motorola and start offering its products in pink…afterall, how else are you going to get a girl to play video games?" And gay guys. Let us not forget them. Gay guys and girls will fall all over anything painted pink and lack of pinkness is the only reason they ever avoid things.

    Which I would blame on the article except the press release describes it as "funky, fresh, and fashionable" and I am fairly sure games aimed at guys are not normally described as fashionable.



    I should take this opportunity to point out this story is from 2006. Also that I have always been annoyed/outraged by such things and it is mostly coincidence that I now have a forum with which to broadcast my annoyance just as such things become more personally relevant.

Comments

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

Except light blue? :(

[coniferous_you]

Frat boys like pink too. Pfft.

I'll bet it's not even REAL pink. It's probably salmon or something.

Pink, I like! The shades of it, oy.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

I had a traumatic experience with pink chocolate once.

[coniferous_you]

Okay. I actually looked at the link.

Ha! Yeah, I'd probably like one. It's GOOD pink, at least. Not at all what I expected.

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

... EVIL IS A PINK PLAYSTATION. It doesn't get out much

The cruelty. I don't think my composure will recover for minutes hours. And it gave me hives just looking at all that pink plastic...

Clearly targeted at 11 year old girls.

[taraxoxo.livejournal.com]

Such sexism, yuk (even though I don't play video games)! But it is all over the world (Asia is VERY sexist by the way) and we need to do a lot of education, really.