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[Alpha Six]

If it was a male character people wouldn't even be batting an eye-lid...

hi i just want you to know a little something about Society real quick

SOCIETY'S DEFINITION OF GENDER:
male: the Man. the source of power, the strongest being on earth, always in the right

female: the Woman. the Weaker Sex who should only be doing things men tell them to do and can be assaulted for refusing at any time



now here is the part where you say "but tyvon, men go through the EXACT same thing sometimes! men get raped and they get beat up by women!! why does nobody care when it happens to a man??????


this is the reason:

the chances of being assaulted in any way, shape, or form, increase drastically when you are female. because women are "weak."

putting a "weak" woman into a role that involves her being assaulted and tormented is not going to make anybody feel better about her Inevitable Triumph In The End, because she is not the one making the decisions. you are, and it is clear by what the developers said, that you are literally guiding her through her quest to become Stronger. you are supposed to feel like this character cannot succeed unless you hold her hand through the way.

saying "nobody would care if it happened to a man" downplays the entire issue-- they gave a woman a lead role as a helpless victim who literally needs The Player's help to avoid getting raped and murdered. "if the hero was male" you would probably be the one doing all of the saving and asskicking, regardless of the situation you're in. (edit: and CERTAINLY nobody would want to sexually assault you, because the heterosexual male is the one with the most power in society and a straight male would never sexually assault another straight male )

do you see the flaw here?

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Gears of War is pretty damn sexist and no one got upset about that.

gears of war is not NEARLY as sexist because you actually have a reason to care about the female characters in that game, and guess what? THEY CAN DEFEND THEMSELVES NO PROBLEM

in Gears of War, everyone is part of a unit. everybody is working together to overcome the obstacle and save their world. the only sexism in Gears of War is the character designs, and even then they're barely on the offending side when compared to... basically everything else out on the market!

so why you had to mention Gears of War like it was some kind of giant offender that people should have gotten mad about, i will never understand