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But the best thing about the way women are depicted in Saints Row is the fact that it never seems to occur to anyone to treat them any differently. It's a bit off the wall, but rescuing a pimp from a life as a human pony beats rescuing another kidnapped princess from the castle. But men don't have it any better – in the red light district you can also see clubs where men work and in one mission you descend into a BDSM club with rooms filled with he-whores in gimp suits to rescue a man who has been forced to work there. It's true that women are also sex workers and sexual objects – in some of your cribs, you'll see scantily clad dancers lap dancing for men. There's nothing ever really titillating or sexist about the game – it's just that everything is very, very dumb. You kind of feel like you're playing Naked Gun. At one point, you are turned into a toilet. One of your missions involves having to drive without taking your foot off the accelerator because there's an angry tiger in your backseat. But the silliness isn't just sex related. There are many things that will likely offend many people, not least of which is 'the penetrator' – a cross between a giant baseball bat and a purple dildo. Sure, Saints Row The Third is no pious angel of video games. They're everywhere, doing everything they aren't just eye candy, love interests, or victims. Women in Steelport are your friends, gang bangers, journalists, senators, and military officers.
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It would have been easy enough to have one or two token women, but instead the developers of Saints Row The Third went ahead and created a full house of major female characters. Kinzie lives in an area of town known as Salander, a nod to the hacker heroine of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. There's Kinzie Kensington, a former FBI agent and serious computer geek, who takes care of all your hacking and nerd needs. There are the DeWynter twins, who run prostitution and human trafficking in the city, showing that women can be just as ruthless and evil as men.
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(The closest the game has to a bimbo is Josh Birk – the narcissistic actor who plays vampire hunter turned vampire in the Nyte Blayde TV show). She's a little highly strung and constantly seems to be pissed off, but she's certainly no silly little girl. There's your homie Shaundie, a tough gangster girl who can easily pull her weight alongside your male team members. You, the boss of the Third Street Saints, can be a woman. In fact, the world of Saint's Row is, sadly, probably more fiercely equal than the world of real life. In this world, there are lots of strong female characters. Has touched on the issues of gender equality in other games, like her recent piece on sexism in LA Noire. This game is, at least, consistent in how it treats the sexes. While it's true that one of the many options is a 'sex appeal meter' which increases or decreases the size of your curves, it works for men, too, increasing or decreasing the size of their package.
No one in Steelport is going to take the slightest bit of notice. All outfits, makeup, and hair styles are available to both genders, so there's nothing stopping you from, say, being a girl with a beard or a fella with pigtails, lip gloss, and high heels. It's amazing how often games won't let female players experience a game within their own gender. Girl power? First, you can play as a male or female and create your own character from a mind-boggling array of customisation options. So how can it be a positive for women gamers? Mostly, because it's entirely blind to gender-roles, a rarity in the game world. On the face of it, this game is a puerile, adolescent male fantasy, crammed with silly jokes and saucy imagery. It's a strange thing to say about a game that features a gigantic purple dildo as a weapon, showcases prostitution, and allows the player to amend female characters' bust-size, but I'll just go ahead and say it - Saints Row: The Third actually deserves kudos for the way it portrays women.
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