Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

You're this mad because the woman in a video game doesn't give you a boner? 

I'm not sure why developers have decided that black women characters should look like Amanda Waller and I'm not really a gamer, besides some niche PC arpgs. But I'm not sure why anyone gives a shit about this lol. Outside of the Waller thing, most female characters I see in TV ads just look like regular women? Not hot, not ugly, sometimes cute I guess. Honestly they remind me of Ripley or Sarah Conner: feminine yet tough chicks. Nobody thought that was a problem in the 80s or 90s.

why are we culturally allergic to attractive characters now?

it doesn't matter if ONE character is ugly, it matters when suddenly 90% of the mainstream ones are and you remember when it wasn't the case

this wasn't a problem in the 80s or 90s because a wide variety of people were in all sorts of media in those decades, now they're literally all hideous

We can certainly have a debate about how much this does or doesn't matter (some stuff is also definitely overblown, Aloy from Horizon for example isn't a total bombshell but also not as ugly as people say) but I find it wild to have a developer basically get shut down by his colleagues because his comments gave too much ammo to the other side or something.

I also wouldn't be surprised if white developers are somehow interested in making POC characters look more "ethnic" to pat themselves on the back