Koniving, on 20 September 2014 - 06:40 AM, said:
Truth be told, there were similar reactions when I was looking for a woman to do the readings on the mech lore series that I was/am working on kinda on and off. There was a few reasons for wanting a female instructor-sounding authority.
1) A woman's voice commands attention. There's a reason that computers are generally female. There have been military studies on this, and the U.S. Air Force has proven that in situations of extreme stress (such as high G-forces, low oxygen, etc.) that a female voice had a much higher success rate of both getting information to the pilot as well as getting the pilot to perform tasks that would save his life in such situations (such as pulling up when barely even conscious) than male or simply sound-based messages (beeps, etc).
2) You don't hear so many female voices on youtube talking about video games. Even fewer that are role playing as a training instructor and giving you information about the Battlemechs that you would soon be piloting. And then, even fewer would have said training instructor chewing you out for things such as being tardy (I originally planned on doing a 3D animated training room with a 3D instructor).
Sadly, I went for half a year with only partial proposals that sadly did not take off. So I went with a male, British, and things have actually begun to take off. The first one should be done in time for Community Warfare's second to third phase.
(That said, for anyone here I can still use additional voices. There's a lot of mechs, and we've been thinking of doing a Battletech lore version and a Mechwarrior Online version as the two are entirely different things.)
Always been very keen on real equality and I find this thread interesting.
On the one hand I cannae help but have the kneejerk "ew creep" reaction but at the same time, like you said, there can be perfectly sensible and valid reasons for wanted femcoms...
Even if the wording was less than desirable, just makes me wonder how the reaction would be different if a woman posted something like this just asking for help for 3 male commanders.
I dont think itd be ridiculed nearly as much.
Ah well best of luck OP.
Edited by Sadist Cain, 20 September 2014 - 10:36 PM.