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Lae’zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it’s okay to embrace women in video games like them.
Lae’zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it’s okay to embrace women in video games like them.
Nobody’s afraid of them. This article created its own problem to complain about.
This feels a lot more like the author is upset by the way these two were done, and is in turn projecting that upon “other gamers”.
You never met one of those capital G Gamers who have never seen a woman that’s not their mom? The ones that get mad if there are black/gay/trans people in their videogames because of “muh escapism”?
Sure, but I’ve also just read about a black gay Trump voter. Extremes exist, it is upon the one presenting a theory to show the extend of the problem.
I’ll readily believe that focus testing and the safety-only design of companies such as Ubisoft augments any problem massively but it’s still easy to accept “Oh it’s because gamers are too afraid of powerful women in their games!” as a rhetoric without having anything indicating it’s actually happening.
The whole gamergate thing lends some credence to the words of the author I would think. A lot of the big gaming influencers are toxic, racist and misogynistic. Remember when people freaked out about some unflattering screenshots of female characters in a lot of games? Like Aloy in Horizon: Forbidden West, MJ in the new Spiderman game or even Abby in The Last of Us 2. There are surprisingly many people that don’t like any western games because they “push their woke agenda” or some such bullshit.
It is the same in many online games, although that has gotten a bit better over the years, where you get berated, insulted and catcalled if you dare to have a feminine voice.
Of course, I’m not saying that it cannot be the case, but it’s also not something I’d leave just standing.
Just from the examples you list, the same issues essentially show up:
Again, totally not saying that it’s not very much a relevant comment that is being linked to here, but to me what is weird is that it presents an idea as fact with absolutely no evidence that the basis that fact would need to be true even exists. “Gamers” is not a single group of people. And the implication that this in turn affects game design is also entirely unverified and not something a reader can verify or falsify for themselves.
gAmErS were shitting their pants over the mere possibility of choosing “they” as a pronoun in Starfield. Also apparently voice actors having accents is “woke”
I’ve never seen a hill as ridiculous for anyone to die on besides “they.”
those gamers wouldn’t be the ones who want powerful women in the first place. The article is imagining gamers who want powerful women AND are afraid of them.
Nope!
Then you are luckier than me.
Thankfully, I only know those gaymurrs from youtube videos that are brightly titled as
[game] IS WOKE PROPAGANDA, so it’s easy to avoid them.