[rlt3]

"non-phallic" implies all other first-person shooters are phallic. The word phallic implies many things.

Yeah, the phrase is from someone else, but it certainly wasn't included by accident.

Certainly not out-of-context.

[untog]

The phrase isn't wrong, though. The vast majority of FPSes involve you playing a man, shooting other men. Sometimes it'll include a woman, but only if she's very, very scantily clad.

[dublinben]

Reducing men to the physical expression of their sex is more sexist than anything else mentioned in the article. I will grant you "masculine," "macho," or even "puerile," but "phallic" is simply offensive.

[byerley]

I'm struggling to think of a scantily clad female FPS character, but it's not really my genre of choice. Can you give some examples?

I always thought of it as more of a fantasy/RPG issue.

[Crito]

Some (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120212153603/quake/imag...) but not all (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221555/quake/imag...) of the female characters in Q3A are scantily clad.

(Similarly unrealistically proportioned male character with armor missing on stomach: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120215221956/quake/imag...)

[pervycreeper]

>The vast majority of FPSes involve you playing a man, shooting other men.

Which has nothing substantial to do with a "phallus" of any kind.