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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[Can I ask you why "[you] hope they're little girls?"<br><br>This casual homophobia and knee-jerk gender role reinforcement is exactly what I don't need to see in a politic-neutral technology blog - which, if anything, I mistakenly expect to be more progressive because of the futurism of the subject matter.<br><br>I'd like to politely request a response or retraction, and apology to your readers.  I'll be pulling Switched and it's family from my RSS in the meantime.  Sacrificing journalistic credibility for snark is something the blog community does well, but I won't continue to support the AOL news network with my pageviews and clickthroughs as long as it is at the forefront of this trend.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 3:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[Amen. Though I wouldn't ever believe technology advances are politically neutral. It's the personal, retrograde politics I wouldn't want to read. But even if I were in agreement with these noxious "knee-jerk" gender roles don't give up on Switched. Hold their feet to the fire!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trademarkable]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 3:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[You "hope they're little girls?" As in, boys shouldn't play with dolls? Are you serious? Plenty of boys play with dolls and fantasize about being a parent. Why wouldn't we want to encourage nurturing behavior in our future fathers? Are you saying video games should remain the province of (hopefully fantastical) warmongering? I can't believe I'm reading this in 2009. How disappointing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trademarkable]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 3:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[I agree with your statement about little girls and boys. The snark we meant to make was adults playing with a baby doll, not any particular gender statements. I've added 'boys', and kept the sass towards anyone over the age of 12 who is spending their time nursing an inanimate object. That isn't a Ropid.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leila Brillson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 3:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[But that's not acceptable either. Why wouldn't some adults want to play with this? There are lots of empty nesters, elderly, parents who've lost their children, etc., who might find it quite therapeutic to play this sort of game. And what if an adult isn't that good at caring for a baby? Why would it be anything but positive to have a game which develops parenting skills? Even if I believed you that the original text wasn't meant to be sexist (how could anyone miss that?) why denigrate adults who want to care for children? So sad.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trademarkable]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 3:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm not denigrating any adults who are trying to hone a nesting instinct, but I think I would be one of the first people to point out that child-rearing sims ALWAYS ALWAYS reinforce the gender stereotypes you are riling against and have virtually no education value. They ARE creepy, they refer to you as the "mother", pink is for girls who get to wear bows and dresses and blue is for boys who like fire trucks. If you are taking child rearing tips from a Wiimote attachment and a game that asks players to play create-an-outfit and something called "Balloons" , then you should probably put down a controller and pick up, I don't know, Erik Erickson. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leila Brillson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 3:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Baby and Me' Uses Wiimote to Create a Burping, Crying Baby]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/baby-and-me-uses-wiimote-to-create-a-burping-crying-baby/</guid><description><![CDATA[REMEMBER HOW FUN TAMAGOTCHI WAS? ENDLESS HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT! <br><br>I hope this developer makes a sequel where you take care of old elderly people next. WHY ARE THESE GAMES ALWAYS AGEIST AND HAVE TO DO WITH TAKING CARE OF THE YOUNG? My grandparents need their bed-pans changed. Imagine the fun of pouring it out with the Wiimote; or scrubbing their dentures! Oh no! They've fallen! Help them up!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 2nd 2009 4:10PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
