Improvement is a big word and extremely relative. To take video games for instance for some players less bikini armor rpg's would be just as much an improvement as less violence for players who play violent video games.EstrogenicMuscle said:Media does not exist in a vacuum. Feminists are a vast group of people with different specializations.generals3 said:Than why are they complaining about video games? Video game characters are nothing more than code lines. As such they are out of the "feminist jurisdiction" if all they care are about is equal treatment of men and women. And that is what people hate about feminists, the fact they twist everything into a feminist issue and as such constantly overstep their alleged boundaries.Murais said:They want women to be treated equally to men. The end. That's it. Equality.
Some feminists focus only on the instances of rape in real life and raising awareness about rape. Some focus on media criticism. Some are broad in the scope of their commentary.
As it so happens, media does matter. It is a part of an evolving feedback loop. Where culture informs media and media informs culture. You can tell a lot about a culture from partaking in its media. Media we have does not exist in a vacuum, it reflects the culture that produced it. That's why the Japanese anime industry and the American cartoon industry look different. It is why the works of Chaucer look different than most novels today.
Furthermore, media influences culture. Uncle Tom's Cabin was said to be a major part in motivating the United States to abolish slavery. Media both influences and has influenced culture. Video game is a major form of media today, an important and huge industry as large as the movie industry. There is no reason it should not undergo cultural analysis. What kinds of values it reflects. And what kinds of values it is reinforcing.
I think the idea that feminists supposedly have "boundaries" and can only care about the "big stuff" like laws creating legal discrimination is a problem. That many people are uncomfortable with people fighting for equality beyond the law. With social advocacy. Of criticism of media culture and such. If many people "hate" feminists for this, then this shows how far society has to go that people are extremely defensive of inequality and privilege to this point. Feminism clearly has a long, long way to go if people react so negatively to something like this.
This kind of resistance to improvement shows just how much further feminism has to go and how far away from equality we still are.
Feminism doesn't "improve" things, it tries to change things their way. The difference is massive because there is no evidence which suggests the changes they advocate actually "improve" anything. Equal rights was an improvement, but complaining about the patriarchy all the time in order to make women and men make the choices they want them to make is hardly "improvement".