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[–]alladd 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

why does it fucking matter if they came out before 2014

isn't that even better, doesn't that point to an established history of female chars instead of only recent ones

[–]wylanderuk 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Because

  1. They know it destroys their argument.
  2. The characters in question don't align with "current thing".
  3. They are tourists and know fuck all about the actual history of what they are screeching about.
  4. They are pissed that the game they like because it is woke infested bullshit failed because its woke infested bullshit.

[–]alladd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's all nonsense anyway. it's a straight dude with a lesbian fetish pretending to stump for women. glad they switched to private. the public doesn't need any more insanity.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's the same kind of shit that movies do to try to seem progressive. They'll advertise on the diversity angle and the brainless consumers online will parrot those points, historic female protagonist, black protagonist, insert identity group here protagonist. All playing into this narrative that before now games movies whatever were part of the white male patriarchy but this current game movie whatever is different because the main character has a vagina or a different skin color than before.

In reality you see there's always been a number of female or minority protagonists and characters in media. Perhaps not to the same level as today? Perhaps, how is that measured?

A lot of the discourse online seems to focus on this "people complaining about new media online are sexist racists" because the characters are women or some kind of minority, though most of the coherent complaints are point out that the characters are poorly written.

There's loads of good movies out there with female protagonists but they rarely go about trying to make a movie where it's important that the protagonist is female. Most of the complaints come from things like, super hero movies or mainstream video games or whatever, where if you take an established formula and you just remake that except now with a woman instead of a man, it's just boring and uninspired, and it's got to play into sexist stereotypes either positive or negative to attempt to justify it's existence to the audience.

Ghostbusters is the primary example. The movie is shit, not because the main characters are women, but because the people making the movie thought the gender swap trope was all the movie needed to be relevant, and not bottom of the dumpster idea that writers pop out their ass when they run out of other ideas.