LiquidGrape said:
Bashfluff said:
Not this one again. Thunderf00t already soundly trounced her, but...
The lack of any real arguments towards his video prove to me that you have nothing to add to the discussion on it. But I say that the free marketplace of ideas have spoken and deemed his video at the very least, mostly accurate.
His points are basically thus: The new Double Dragon ends with Marian punching the bad guy in the balls, irrelevant, she's got no agency in the matter regardless.
Double dragon has a 7 second plot, again irrelevant, while its important to understand the causes of problems that doesn't change the fact that its a problem, and Anita never claims that game designers are intentionally portraying women badly (at least with respect to this specific trope).
A very long section on a Mens rights issue with DiD. Again irrelevant, Mens rights issues are not normally in opposition to feminism, in a lot of cases they are in direct alignment (for example, plots where the woman is useless and the man is only useful because he's violent).
Anita said different things in the past: People are in fact allowed to change their minds. I might turn out to be too generous to Anita here, but unless she brings up those opinions again she should be given the benefit of the doubt.
The whole sexual dimorphism with respect to strength thing. Technically correct and meaningfully wrong, men are weak, being less weak than women isn't meaningful. Men who train for strength are strong, but so are women who train for strength, not as strong as the men who train for strength, but its the 'who train for strength' that's relevant to being strong. It's very much a social construct in teh modern age because women have the same opportunity as men to be strong.
He also harps on the upper body strength figure, but that's not actually terribly useful outside a grapple, bias towards the bench press and biceps size is another social construct; something given to us by decades of poor portrayals of the human body by the media and toy companies[footnote]The average action figure has biceps that would set a world record (not including synthol) if the figure was 6 feet tall.[/footnote] Real world strength is mostly the trunk (much less gap here) and grip strength (women do better at some grip tasks, worse at others, depending on if the task favors small or large hands).
Edit: grammer