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Overly hyped murder simulator GTA V has finally released, and Gamespot gave it an extremely high score of 9.0 when the review embargo lifted on September 16th.
However, as soon as readers found out she mentioned her personal opinions of the game on her review of the game, they instantly got angry and demanded her firing.
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“Politically muddled and profoundly misogynistic” “Perhaps you dive right into the game’s story problems, or its serious issues with women.”
- Carolyn Petit
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Sure, it’s her job to review games and tell us her opinions about them, but mentioning that it has issues with women?!
Obviously that is reason to fire her, is it not? Apparently the rabid crowds feel that way, with a petition already created.
So should she be fired?
Of course not.
She reviewed the game, if she felt the game had content she didn’t like, she should mention it on her review. That’s kinda part of her job.
This isn’t the first time it has happened on Gamespot; Jeff Gerstmann received death threats after giving Zelda: Twilight Princess an 8.8.
Children who are offended by personal opinions shouldn’t be buying a game like GTA V anyway. Then again, that isn’t going to stop them.
But of course, not all Gamespot readers are evil children; there are still good people among the GS community:
Certainly we should all feel the same way.
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http://systemwarsmagazine.com/2013/0...ant-her-fired/
I feel like GTAV should have been including female playable characters for so long just to equalize everybody's opportunities and like it could get a 10/10 from me even if the whole game was a mess.
Anyway, 9/10 is still a good score, I would dock a point if I was a reviewer just because of the lack of playable female characters. I mean, it's already 2013, it doesn't even really make any sense IMO.
I don't even get the gamespotters trying to get her fired, it's her opinion and it should be validated.
Especially for an overrated series. Sad
A true icon 
