>> ^Deano:

I have the strong sense of dupeness about this one.
BTW that level of cleavage is bloody unfair. And funnily enough if she flashed me I'd very probably look away in total embarrassment.


I just searched the tags "cleavage" and "boobs" and nothing came up. I wonder where else these boobs could be hiding?

I have the strong sense of dupeness about this one.

BTW that level of cleavage is bloody unfair. And funnily enough if she flashed me I'd very probably look away in total embarrassment.

Ok, sorry. I didn't see that. I was probably too focused on the possibility of gut-cleavage to see

@Sagemind

A quibble or two aside, just about everything you said, I think, is spot on, but I don't agree with your conclusion that this isn't a useful project, or that video games aren't going to change. What you're missing is that just about every female that we're presented with across all media is from a narrow band of disempowering clichés. It's the "disempowering" part that's key. Yes, there are relatively few male archetypes in video games, but they're almost always valued for their strength, leadership, intelligence, wit, athleticism, skill, sense of humour, bravery, accomplishments, etc. -- in other words, all positive attributes, things most of us would openly encourage in our sons. Women, on the other hand, are almost always portrayed as eye candy, fuck toys, rewards to a man for saving the day, helpless victims, evil bitch nemeses (the only time a woman may commonly achieve self-determination without showing cleavage), selfless helpers of men, and so on, none of which are positive or even neutral models for our daughters.

Awareness of the types of characters we're presenting to children to identify with is important. To a lesser degree, it's also important for adults in terms of not reinforcing those stereotypes. I already consume video games with this kind of critical eye. I'd noticed how cool it was that the Portal games had a main character who's a woman, who's awesome, but who's never sexed up at all. I thought that showed some real balls (ahem) on the part of the developers. Skyrim too seems decent. It has a lot of female characters, and most of them are just whoever they are. None are sexy window dressing, a couple are flirty, and only one that I've come across is overly sexed-up, and then, only in the 1-900-voice-acting department, not her character or appearance.

That two major recent titles avoid female stereotypes is a huge thing, and I think a very positive thing. The more awareness there is of this, the better, IMO.

>> ^Reefie:

I had no idea what a reply girl was before watching this video. I'm still a bit clueless about the practice, but I found this very interesting to watch. It's easy to forget we're all real people with real feelings, the internet needs more content that doesn't dehumanise us.


The chick objectifies herself by positioning her cleavage just so, making absolutely worthless videos with literally no real content, and contributing nothing to YouTube. In fact she, and other reply girls, bring down the level of the whole site/community/culture. Then she complains when the miscreants who are attracted by her cleavage leave "dehumanizing" remarks on her videos. I say fuck her right in her boring, stupid-sounding ass.

>> ^legacy0100:

Goddamn that guy's head is HUGE compared to his body LOL


He had a head? I was checking out the cleav.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

That's unfortunate and unfair.
Sure, it might be unappealing. But Youtube incentivizes reply girl behavior because youtube isn't about quality content, it's about turnover and clickthru rates.
It's a pretty good exposé tho, I'd encourage everyone to watch the second half.
It really humanizes alejandra. Gives her depth and reminds us that we're all just little ape people trying to make it thru life.

>> ^entr0py:
I made it half-way through. Great example of just how horrifying the youtube community is. Glad there's an alternative.



I wasn't very clear, I was horrified by the people threatening her, not by the girl who cleverly found a way to make money on youtube. What she does seems mildly irritating but harmless; it's easy not to click on her videos if you don't want to. Harmless unless merely seeing a little thumbnail of cleavage sends you into a rage spiral. But people that sensitive about boobs should really abandon the internet as a lost cause.

I'm impressed by the number of people speaking out in favour of a "replygirl", cos i thought the term meant "an empty headed big titted youtube user who shows cleavage to make money." I'm not an exhibitionist so i wouldn't know whether it's worth it or not; to me it's not.

But in the interests of restoring the balance; i don't have respect for people who shake their tits about for money in this way. I hope she's investing some of the cash she's making for her impending retirement because i hear tits devalue rapidly with both age and familiarity. Could invest in surgery i suppose but that's a cycle that'll eventually end in mother nature's favour.

Porn - you couldn't get away from it even if you wanted to.

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^UsesProzac:
>> ^Fletch:
1905 views, 45 upvotes. LOL.

11 seconds of cleavage got 46 upvotes!

46! Sorry. I was implying that there must be a lot of people hitting "replay".


Thanks, each upvote and refresh is dear to these old milk bags. My son was well fed and if he could upvote, I'm sure he would, too.

>> ^UsesProzac:

>> ^Fletch:
1905 views, 45 upvotes. LOL.

11 seconds of cleavage got 46 upvotes!

46! Sorry. I was implying that there must be a lot of people hitting "replay".

>> ^Fletch:

1905 views, 45 upvotes. LOL.


11 seconds of cleavage got 46 upvotes!

yah, I came for the candy, but stayed for the cleavage.>> ^Darkhand:

The candy probably tastes great too unless stuff that comes off the production lines everywhere
oh and nobody gave it a BEWBS tag? That one chick was two buttons two low. She probably goes home with a grab bag in her shirt at the end of the day

Great cleavage on back right. The rest of it I'm not too hot on.

>> ^gwiz665:

.. you motherfucker.
>> ^dag:
Definitely my favourite coffee video of all time. But I think she's showing a bit too much cleavage to be allowable on the Sift.>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Watch me render this conversation moot with a coffee related video that all rational people will recognize to be the best video; best not only in this contest, but in every contest from now to eternity and whatever may lie beyond. Lucky already has my address, so, nice work everyone, sorry to swoop in and win at the last minute. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to post the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0




I know... wtf I cant see the cleavage for that damned striped polo.

.. you motherfucker.
>> ^dag:

Definitely my favourite coffee video of all time. But I think she's showing a bit too much cleavage to be allowable on the Sift.>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Watch me render this conversation moot with a coffee related video that all rational people will recognize to be the best video; best not only in this contest, but in every contest from now to eternity and whatever may lie beyond. Lucky already has my address, so, nice work everyone, sorry to swoop in and win at the last minute. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to post the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0