Recent content by Technicka

1. The problem is that there was legitmate criticism, and praise for Bayonetta (was there ridiculous hate from some areas? Sure, but even CoD has it's dedicated hater base in critics). But those get overlooked. Because it's easier for a developer/artist/publisher to point out the full stop...

Before voting women fought for the right to be in schools, to be able to keep their maiden names, to wear pants (an arguably minor thing, yes?). And people are able to fight on multiple fronts against oppression. you keep simplifying it as an A -> B -> C situation. Whereas I have been saying...

Opression isn't just one thing, though. it's a system. And the system only works when it's reinforced in all aspects of society. If women can't even get a fair shake in entertainment, who can we expect to ge get fair treatment in pay equality? In education? In healthcare? If society can't/won't...

And when an industry reinforces an idea that women aren't as valued as men, that isn't aiding with overall oppression? Do you think slavery was the only oppression that blacks endured, where profiling and segregation don't count? Because with such a narrow view of what oppression actually is...

Yea, nooope. He's calling out the guys that are saying they can't play as a female because they don't want to maybe have to play a scenario where the lead has adult times with a male. The majority of the video is him raging against an industry that seems determined to ignore that women are...

It's cute that you're so hung up on the fact that I didn't give you a wikipedia calibre listing of every female ever writeen ever. Because Twilight 9regardless of your thoughts about it) was wirtten by a woman with an average female lead. The Anita Blake series features a lead that's a pretty...

You must not do much reading of things with female leads. Because there's plenty of books written by women with varying female personality types in their leads. Comics are tougher because you have to stick to indie titles, as the Big Two aren't very accepting of female talent (but the few that...

I agree, it does toe a rather faint line of self-mockery. And with a lot of works that do that...it can sometimes backfire (like the Uncle Ruckus movie that's apparently in the works...). I enjoyed that Bayonetta was a woman that was comfortable with her body and sexuality. It was a breath of...

The industry is inundated with different type of male leads. There's something for everyone. Women aren't given the same opportunities. Our heroes are always sexy and ready to have sex. We don't get unattractive fighters (GoW), or goofballs (classic!Dante), or bitter assholes (new!Dante)or...

Just because the main character is female doesn't automatically make her somehow unproblematic. And a person that finds parts of her character/the game torubling can still enjoy the game. You're playing the the argument that if it's female it's inherently a good thing, and should be exempt from...

Because a predominantly white controlled media would so totally teach kids (and young minorities at that) about a man that argued a refusal to be passive in the face of hate. Malcom X abdicated that black people be willing, and able, to protect themselves from racism. He respected MLK Jr. And...

I'm gonna guess here, but I think the argument being made is that Chell being female was almost seen as an after thought. We get the big reveal a-la Metroid style at the end of the game, and even in the second one, the box cover, and most of the promotional material featured in-game footage...

If a person saying, "That is a dumb argument," is all it takes for you to walk away from important issues like sexism in popular media, then you weren't really interested in learning about it otherwise. There's this pretty neat thing called the internet that allows you to look up info on various...

Yes. You're policing tone. You don't get to tell a person that their anger is a bad thing when they're talking about their own oppression. This is hardly a flame war. I'm going to assume you've never seen a true full stop flame war, because this is nothing close. This is people passionately...

What your doing is tone policing, a common tactic in derailing marginalized people from their right to be angry at being treated as lesser beings. That does nothing more than keep the debates and arguments from continuing. An oppressed person does not owe niceness to a person that is defending...