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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 155: Cheesecake Angle
« on: October 29, 2014, 10:00:39 AM »Quote
What she gets wrong, when she said that critics have been calling gamers nerds for years, and are now calling them misogynistic, is that the critics are gamers.
Some of those critics may or may not be gamers, that doesn't make their critics right.
For example, the damsel in distress trope. Some will interpret its use as misogynistic because the female is portrayed as defenseless and the male as the hero. Another simplistic way of interpreting it would be to see the female as valuable and the male as disposable (how many Marios died in order to save Peach?). The reality though, I think, is that the trope is used simply because it's convenient: everybody understands it, no need to explain it, it's an easy story to use, especially in the earlier games where gameplay was all that truly mattered.
A more modern exemple, games that let you kill innocent people, often the critics will point out the fact that you can kill innocent females while ignoring that you can do the same with innocent males. Is it misogynistic to treat women the same way as men?
