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Okay I assumed that this was just some bull shit youtubers side to the get more people clicks. But there are really people in the game and I am guessing other industries complaining about the Female characters looking too much like females. And this was is about a furry. So most people would not even have been longing over her any way. This dude is trying to link people trying to make a character look more female to assault and other sexual violence.

Below is a writer/game dev fighting to make sure a character doesn't look like woman.

The argument basically broke down like this:

The game director and art director wanted her to have a visibly, fairly stereotypically feminine look.

The lead writer, the lead character TD, and I wanted to keep her as-is.

This is where things get into territory that men like myself in gamedev need to pay REALLY FUCKING CLOSE ATTENTION.

The lead writer was a woman. The lead character TD was a trans person who, at the time, had not transitioned.

Everyone else in the discussion was a white cis male.

At the time the argument occurred, there were two women and one female-presenting trans person on the team. That trans person had lived their life up to that point as a woman, and had the lived experience thereof.

Everyone else on the 20+ person team was a man.

So.

Two thirds of the women on the team, as well as one cis white man (me), were telling the art director and game lead that Rivet should not, as an alien space fox, have wide hips and titties.

We believed that:

1. It went against the message of the game, which is that anyone can be a hero regardless of how they look
2. You don't need to be stereotypically feminine to be a woman
3. RIVET IS A FUCKING ALIEN SPACE FOX, JUST LIKE RATCHET

https://twitter.com/xavierck3d/status/1418061075438706692

Character in question.



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