Duke Nukem is something of the embodiment for bad-boy behavior, with a womanizing attitude and comical violence. While some feminists might rankle at Duke’s comments, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford invites the criticism.

“I’ll tell you what, if some feminist organization that is doing a great job advocating women’s rights worldwide, which I think is really important, can get some advantage by using Duke… go for it,” said Pitchford. “How is there a downside for humanity? Go for it. Take it. Use Duke. That would be awesome. If anyone can better our world through the use of anything, and if Duke is a tool to help them do that, that’s fine. The people that are entertained… The choices people make are their choices.”

“While many of the women in the game appear as strippers and other things your mom wouldn’t be proud of,” Pitchford says it goes both ways. “[Duke is] the center of his universe, and everyone in his universe exists to please him, and women offer him different things to men, but he himself is,” said Pitchford. “His whole purpose in existing is to save and protect women not that they need saving and protecting, but in his world they do, because there’s this rare reality of how our species reproduces, and so the aliens are going to use that against us.”

He added: “By the way, here’s another bit of commentary which is fun the downside for the men in Duke’s universe is that the aliens have the ability to convert men into pigs. So that’s where you get the pig cops and the pigs in the game. That’s what happens to the males of the species. The males get converted into pigs and the women just get used as breeding factories to make alien babies. Are men pigs or not I don’t know. I don’t really care. I think people are people. But that’s a joke in culture men are pigs, haha so you play with that joke.”

Source: Eurogamer