Female players demanding more diversity? How DARE these women request more diversity in games! How dare they speak for everyone! Not EVERYONE wants big, large, strong women in games! What about all those many adolescent men out there who like sexy women with slim bodies, as God made them? Where will they ever turn to get that fix now? BLIZZARD is depriving them of this, and it's all the fault of those women and SJWs out there pretending they care about this issue and making the industry worse for us all!
BLIZZARD has proven they have no integrity. How can you, when you just give players the things they ask for rather than sticking to your guns, plugging your ears, and not listening to any feedback whatsoever? Games are artistic visions that are definitely not made for other players to enjoy, or at least not players that aren't young men. It's just frustrating to see a company with a reputation like BLIZZARD's openly admitting that they made a decision based on player feedback and girl gamers requesting diversity. They should never have listened and done whatever they wanted to do. That's their creative right! I mean, sure, you make the industry more diverse, flavorful, and inclusive, but at WHAT COST? ... apart from financial, because expanding their userbase might mean more people give the game a shot.
I mean, look at this disgusting excuse for a character:
Ugh, it makes me want to puke. Look at that unrealistic body, those oversized muscles, those broad shoulders... Show me a woman who actually looks like that. Women are delicate, fragile creatures, and you'll never find examples of strong women like in real life like this:
And she's a tough Russian girl? How stereotypical! Don't we have enough of those already? I mean, good grief, I can name practically.... one... one single example of a strong Russian girl in video games (as an entirely optional voice for The Boss in Saints Row, and only if you customize the character to be big and strong). This is just yet another example of a strong, muscular Russian girl stereotype that is infecting videogames. How unoriginal.
This is the equivalent of a token character, like a black best friend in movies. As we all are aware, it is better to pretend that these type of people DON'T EXIST than to even attempt to diversify gaming. Sure, everyone has to start somewhere, but wouldn't it be much better to not start AT ALL? It's as Peter Lefleur said in Dodgeball, "I found that if you have a goal, you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed". Just like how Marvel created token black characters that became great characters later on, we should do the total opposite and not accept ANY attempts to be more inclusive to others.
This is a loss for gaming. I can't believe BLIZZARD is forcing me to buy this game and play as this character. Even if I don't want to play as her, I'll still have to see her in the game when someone else DOES want to play as her. And if I don't want to play the game in the first place, I'll still have to skim gaming sites talking about her, forcing me to acknowledge she exists and that, by BLIZZARD's stupid logic, they believe women come in more shapes and sizes than "runway model".
I don't see how anybody could find her attractive, and we know that attractive women are the only women worth playing as anyway. Who could possibly find her appealing? My singular, insular, narrow-minded sensibilities reject anything outside of the typical portrayals, and I can't believe BLIZZARD wouldn't just create a game for me and me alone. I'm outraged, beyond furious, and totally baffled that they would do this, listen to women and others, and alter their perfect, infallible vision to make other people happy. How can I be happy if people that aren't me are happy? What do you mean I should be happy for them?
I think I've said my piece. We can all agree that this is a terrible decision that might impact the future of the industry, causing developers to listen to women and minorities for a change, and this disease might spread to other developers. We're facing the very real crisis of staring at store shelves packed with great games staring strong women, and that's a truly scary thought.
After all, I spoke to a woman once and she said this character is silly and stupid, which affirms that's how all women should feel about this. BLIZZARD is making a huge mistake. Look at this. This is the cost of gaming's integrity. THIS is what happens when women, SJWs, and minorities start getting their way. This is the face of it.
Isn't it hideous?
