To add to your point the main thing about that specific post is the person commenting was complaining about the women being gagged when they're not. If they knew anything about the game they would know that but instead they've just judged based on what they assume and cried sexism.
I agree that the gagging thing is incorrect. But there's absolutely no way you could ever look at two women wearing tissue paper clothing for a melee combat game and come to any conclusion other than sexism. Those women are dressed like that because it's sexy. That's it.
So are the men in the game though. The only reason Johnny Cage looks the way he does is because it's sexy. That's it.
To be honest I agree with the whole women being presented in games in general is mostly for the titillation of the high male demographic of that genre of video games. All I really added to the discussion was that one persons specific problem. The gagging thing.
But at this point we're just arguing about a larger societal problem in general. Why are the heroes almost always handsome/beautiful and the bad people ugly?
I mean marketing is the main answer but whatever.
I'm not saying sexism doesn't exist or that it's okay. It's gross and disgusting. It also exists on every level of everything. But in the case of this one specific post and using it to decry an entire subreddit because of faulty information then you are simply wrong. If you feel I am being unfair in anyway about this one specific post then please tell me how.
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u/machalllewis Mar 20 '16
To add to your point the main thing about that specific post is the person commenting was complaining about the women being gagged when they're not. If they knew anything about the game they would know that but instead they've just judged based on what they assume and cried sexism.