LogFAQs > #908259486

Golden Road posted...

Dead or Alive? You mean that series whose entire purpose is to sexually objectify girls who may or may not be of legal age? That's less about "women must only be portrayed in a certain way" and more about "women shouldn't be portrayed in a sexist, creepy way." Big difference.

Keep in mind that the legal age in Japan is 13 =p

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Omega Hunter posted...

It also pisses me off when games try and portray men and women as equally capable combatants, men are far better at all things war then women, stop trying to fucking brainwash people that they are equal here.

In a setting based on the real world, perhaps. But what about in a fantasy setting? Is statistical equality between men and women more immersion breaking that say magic to you?

Even fantasy settings tend to be based on some realism. Usually you have a few fantastical elements and the rest is just real-world or a variation thereof. However, you don't need statistical equality anyway since you can have exemplars (who, at their peak, are stronger than many males yet still weaker than the strongest of males)

And within fantasy settings there's something of an expectation that even non-human creatures will have *some* sexual dimorphism, whether it's a matter of one gender being larger or having more color.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

We're used to the idea that women have been historically oppressed

Eh, in a fantasy setting matriarchial societies aren't all that immersion-breaking (or, at least, nowhere near as so as ignoring sexual dimorphism)

I_Abibde posted...

If anything, women hate female characters in games, as they constantly seem to be complaining about them, these days.

This so fucking hard.
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