Were the sixist items in Fallout Shelter intentional?

Post » Sun Feb 14, 2016 1:40 am

Fallout Shelter is a great game!!! Love it!!



Kind of disappointed by some of the sixist outfits included though.



Why is the female Nightwear outfit lingerie and the male outfit is flannel pajamas?


Why can't female characters wear the Sports Fan Outfit or Sci-fi fan outfit?



Come on guys. Got any female artists/developers working on the team?

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Crystal Clear
 
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Post » Sat Feb 13, 2016 10:07 pm

I am not sure what you are saying.



Are you saying the the female nightwear should be flannel pajamas or are you saying the male nightwear should be lingerie?

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Lauren Denman
 
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Post » Sat Feb 13, 2016 5:30 pm

Female dwellers also can't wear the professor outfit, which is a shame because it's got a great stat boost.
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Sarah Evason
 
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Post » Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:44 am

I have been wondering about the Scribe Rothchild outfit actually.



I've been trying to equip it on a female Dweller for ages, but it just doesn't show up in the options.


It does show up for the males though.



As for the nightwear issue, I'd just assumed it was because all the items in this game are a port of the ones from Fallout 3 and New Vegas.


So not sure who to direct your concerns to, the original designer from those games or the designer who decided to copy them directly.


Of course, there may be legal concerns about altering game assets, but surely the owners of the game wouldn't sue themselves?

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Kortniie Dumont
 
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Post » Sun Feb 14, 2016 1:50 am

The Nightwear outfit is not sixist because like it or not that is what a lot of females wear to bed. Other than that it's a bit strange that you can't equip them with some outfits but that doesn't bother me, I just work around it.

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Jeffrey Lawson
 
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Post » Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:21 pm

I'm sure that my female dweller is wearing a sci-fi fan outfit

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t34.0-12/11655408_965536386801220_888303916_n.jpg?oh=a28c1fcd11e0bf2e32ec770393978b18&oe=5597396D

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Nathan Risch
 
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Post » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:56 pm

Fallout does not depict an ideal or perfect society. It deliberately depicts a broken, failed society, in a future-in-the-past 1950's style setting. A what-if scenario of crazy technology decades ago. It draws attention to things like sixism in an obvious, tongue-in-cheek way, but if you look at the main games more carefully, you'll see they also deal with those same issues in more serious ways through the plot lines. They are presenting a future we should avoid and a past we shouldn't repeat, filled with baddies who (often) were forced to be bad against their will (supermutants created from prisoners, people who kill to survive, etc.), and issues we'd rather not think about in the world today, like the prevalence of slavery in Western nations.

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