Comments on: ‘Portal’ Is for Lesbians

By: Infinite Lives » Video Game Feminist of the Decade: or, when “You” is a girl

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:22:03 +0000

[...] theme and action of the narrative. The disembodied voice goes to great lengths to tell you so, and she sounds pretty invested in your fate, which is creepy in its own [...]

By: Daniel Panzer

Daniel Panzer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:47:50 +0000

Let’s make something very clear:
Portal is NOT for lesbians, that is a terrible statement.
Plenty of MEN enjoyed Portal, including myself.

I can give you very good reasons why the main character was changed to a female:

Imagine if the main character was a male… I JUST TORE APART THAT BITCH GLADOS AND RAPED HER HELL YES! I JUST BURNED THAT BITCH OF A COMPANION CUBE THAT FUCKING WHORE! OH LOOK I’M GOING IN & OUT OF PORTALS REALLY FAST BECAUSE I REPRESENT A GIANT DICK GOING IN & OUT OF A VAGINA!

They changed the main character to a female so as to avoid the sexual innuendos of MALES ENTERING & EXITING PORTALS AKA VAGINAS.

When I played the game, it was about the puzzles, until GLADOS TRIED TO KILL ME in which the game became an intense game of escaping the psychotic computer program. There was this side plot of Glados putting a bunch of test subjects through these “tests” keeping them in utter isolation to the point of these test subjects getting attached to thus said “companion cube.” If anything, I was wondering why Glados was keeping a lot of innocent girls captive and running them through these tests just to kill them… I thought Glados was an insanely scary computer program who killed everyone in charge to run her insane program… BLACK MESA tore apart the dimensions & brought aliens to Earth, while APERATURE created a psycho program that killed everyone, oh the irony.

I feel that your view of lesbianism in this game is really forced. Basically, you took something and raped it via lesbianism, like raping a prepubescent girl with a dildo. There are a lot of females who complain that they are portrayed in a sexual way, and by you saying that Portal implies lesbianism, you are not helping these women. And now the next time I play Portal all I will be able to think about is LESBIAN SEX. I suppose your job is to make things sexual though, so thank you for ruining Portal for me, I might as well go watch a lesbian porno.

By: Viper7

Viper7 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:47:10 +0000

Just wondering… did any one notice?
“Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center” can be pronounced as … asscake!

By: Trinyan

Trinyan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:02:59 +0000

How about these? On the Aperature Science website, in the application form you can fill out, it asks what wild animal you would most like to domesticate. The list is very long, but some of the choices include Beaver, Booby, various varieties of Tit, and Carpet Shark (which are all real animals, but could easily be taken as support of your hypothesis).

By: 20071110 - Adam Crowe

20071110 - Adam Crowe — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:58:52 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:10:51 +0000

Overt sexuality is for noobs

By: Jade Reporting » October 30

Jade Reporting » October 30 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:55:23 +0000

[...] Portal: The latest, greatest women’s game? “Portal is for Lesbians” ‘Portal’ Is for Lesbians [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:56:06 +0000

Well, maybe by destroying the companion cube to get to GlaDoS, she’s deconstructing her own heterosexuality – and removing the possibility of maintaining a male/female relationship (it also shows that the cube is inanimate for the purposes of communication, and thus intimacy [fetish object, otherwise]).

I don’t remember where the game gives the cube a gender, when was that?

By: Portal grą dla lesbijek? « Altergranie

Portal grą dla lesbijek? « Altergranie — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:15:21 +0000

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By: tritsberdeets

tritsberdeets — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:16:28 +0000

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