04-04-2024, 07:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2024, 07:28 AM by Anti-Monitor.)
The Stellar Blade situation gives me so many thoughts.
It frustrates me. I remember, back in the PS3-360 era, when the pushback against super sexualized female characters started, it was all about wanting variety. I still think variety in character designs should be the goal, but it is un-fucking-deniable that western games are typically pushing frumpy, middle-of-the-road characters for the sake of realism. The main reason Stellar Blade gained traction is because the main character is really hot. Things have gone so far to the other end that having a hot character design is newsworthy.
I remember when Bayonetta was seen as the demon for focusing so much on her ass, and now she’s held up as an example of good character design. What? And I wasn’t around for Nier Automata’s press tour, but I guarantee the Resetera types would hate it. And I mean, how could they not? Honest to god, 2B’s ass is legitimately distracting. Like, her whole look is completely fetishized, and they lack the media literacy to find a deeper reason for it. And honestly, even if you do justify it, it’s still distracting. Yet she’s now also an officially recognized good design for the doublethink prudes? I smell bullshit on this.
So here’s my two cents on this. The autistic men in dresses can’t push back too hard against Bayonetta and 2B because, as sexualized as they are, the games came out, and women loved them. Because for a lot of us, being distractingly-hot, while also a total badass, is a plus, not a con. So the people who have made their whole online persona an attempt to co-opt the female experience cannot push back against them without having the façade slip a bit. “We are not a monolith”, claim the ghouls who are very much a monolith. “Bayonetta’s ass is okay because she owns her sexuality”, claim the freaks who hate any kind of sexuality and repeatedly claim fictional characters have no agency. “2B’s ass is okay because…” i actually don’t know how they defend this one.
I suspect these people are going so hard against Stellar Blade simply in a foolish attempt to control the narrative, much in the same way they tried and failed with Hogwarts. But if they can get Stellar Blade to be officially recognized as a chud game before it comes out and is largely popular among female gamers, then they win. Give them time, and those stupid sluts will like it, and they will have to pretend to also like it for the next t’n’a character action protagonist.
Some day, these people will be forced to confront how the pushback against their retarded, puritanical views, is without a doubt one of the leading causes in the general public rejecting the left. When you use the slippery slope as much as they do, and in no doubt at this point claiming you like the Stellar Blade girl makes you a literal nazi, the regular people stop paying attention to nazis when everyone is, and especially when your most poignant example is “this man likes boobs and ass! Nazi!”
The menopause thing with JK Rowling really fucking angered me. These creepos are the worst type of sexist asshole and I see them no different from the most stereotypical right wing parody. At the end of the day they all get off in telling women how to think, feel and act. One simply adds “speaking as a trans lesbian” at the beginning of their spiel
TL;DR: Post 2B ass
It frustrates me. I remember, back in the PS3-360 era, when the pushback against super sexualized female characters started, it was all about wanting variety. I still think variety in character designs should be the goal, but it is un-fucking-deniable that western games are typically pushing frumpy, middle-of-the-road characters for the sake of realism. The main reason Stellar Blade gained traction is because the main character is really hot. Things have gone so far to the other end that having a hot character design is newsworthy.
I remember when Bayonetta was seen as the demon for focusing so much on her ass, and now she’s held up as an example of good character design. What? And I wasn’t around for Nier Automata’s press tour, but I guarantee the Resetera types would hate it. And I mean, how could they not? Honest to god, 2B’s ass is legitimately distracting. Like, her whole look is completely fetishized, and they lack the media literacy to find a deeper reason for it. And honestly, even if you do justify it, it’s still distracting. Yet she’s now also an officially recognized good design for the doublethink prudes? I smell bullshit on this.
So here’s my two cents on this. The autistic men in dresses can’t push back too hard against Bayonetta and 2B because, as sexualized as they are, the games came out, and women loved them. Because for a lot of us, being distractingly-hot, while also a total badass, is a plus, not a con. So the people who have made their whole online persona an attempt to co-opt the female experience cannot push back against them without having the façade slip a bit. “We are not a monolith”, claim the ghouls who are very much a monolith. “Bayonetta’s ass is okay because she owns her sexuality”, claim the freaks who hate any kind of sexuality and repeatedly claim fictional characters have no agency. “2B’s ass is okay because…” i actually don’t know how they defend this one.
I suspect these people are going so hard against Stellar Blade simply in a foolish attempt to control the narrative, much in the same way they tried and failed with Hogwarts. But if they can get Stellar Blade to be officially recognized as a chud game before it comes out and is largely popular among female gamers, then they win. Give them time, and those stupid sluts will like it, and they will have to pretend to also like it for the next t’n’a character action protagonist.
Some day, these people will be forced to confront how the pushback against their retarded, puritanical views, is without a doubt one of the leading causes in the general public rejecting the left. When you use the slippery slope as much as they do, and in no doubt at this point claiming you like the Stellar Blade girl makes you a literal nazi, the regular people stop paying attention to nazis when everyone is, and especially when your most poignant example is “this man likes boobs and ass! Nazi!”
The menopause thing with JK Rowling really fucking angered me. These creepos are the worst type of sexist asshole and I see them no different from the most stereotypical right wing parody. At the end of the day they all get off in telling women how to think, feel and act. One simply adds “speaking as a trans lesbian” at the beginning of their spiel
TL;DR: Post 2B ass
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