DICE Celebrates BFV Launch by demonising gamers

Why, oh why can’t these people make their own fantasy game where there are female soldiers fighting alongside males in some kind of sci-fi world (or one set in the present fighting a current conflict, a’la Afghanistan or Iraq, or any other current conflict?) Better yet, why not create a World War II game focused on the actual women combatants of said war (mostly and only women in the Soviet and Finnish armies, and usually as snipers.) Or is that too much to ask the idiots who pestered the makers of this game to do this, because ‘diversity’?

For an alternative, I prefer games like Sniper Elite IV:Italia, which does have a female character in it, Sophia diRocco, who is correctly (for the period) a partisan leading an army of partisans in resistance against the RSI (aka the Republic of Salo) and its German backers, who is not doing any real actual fighting (or at least, only doing it in her capacity and not doing what Karl Fairburne is doing [she’s also a playable character, but it’s only a skin over Fairbourne, thrown in as a sop/salve for those who want to play as her.]) Misinterpreting history in this manner is wrong and stupid, and does it (and the women [with the exception of the Finnish and Russian examples] who did serve-although not in direct combat) a great disservice to their memory. People calling for this in video games, movies, and TV need to deal with historical events as they actually happened, and not colorwash (or femalewash) events just to make themselves, or any young person of color/ young female who’s being white-knighted, feel good about history in the name of what’s being called ‘diversity’ (but is actually pandering and tokenism.)