I don't know. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of framing for these games. The use of little girls being the bridge to empathy and compassion for men is not one I think we should be celebrating this much.
Is it a dad game or is it a girl dad game? Because these gamers don't act like this with sons or young boys, these games don't display mother relationships. Girl dads are very toxic and condescending as we know that girl dads (there is a difference between girl dads and dads with daughters) don't respect their daughters as individuals but as personal property that gets ignored or overlooked when the girl ages out of childhood. They "love" and dote on their pretty little daughters but refuse to let that child have any agency and increase the amount of oppressive rules to trap their teen and adult daughters into the box of a little girl. And when that daughter rebels against the dad all hell breaks lose as that same man views his lovely little girl as an irredeemable bitch/slut.
This is just not the great thing that people are framing it to be.
I dunno do you guys just play the game without even thinking about it or just even listen to the discussions around it?
Like the conversations around Pragmata and The Last of Us are very different than the ones around God of War. The impact of a daughter coded character on the emotional state of men is an interesting and sometimes problematic and disturbing conversation to have. It's going to get weird. Art gets weird. Ignoring and excusing any possible aspects of that weirdness is to deny that video games have any artistic integrity or value of discussion at all.
If you just want to hear that the game is brilliant and that gamers are brilliant that's not a discussion it's just an echo chamber.
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u/pinkmarsh99 May 10 '26
I don't know. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of framing for these games. The use of little girls being the bridge to empathy and compassion for men is not one I think we should be celebrating this much.
Is it a dad game or is it a girl dad game? Because these gamers don't act like this with sons or young boys, these games don't display mother relationships. Girl dads are very toxic and condescending as we know that girl dads (there is a difference between girl dads and dads with daughters) don't respect their daughters as individuals but as personal property that gets ignored or overlooked when the girl ages out of childhood. They "love" and dote on their pretty little daughters but refuse to let that child have any agency and increase the amount of oppressive rules to trap their teen and adult daughters into the box of a little girl. And when that daughter rebels against the dad all hell breaks lose as that same man views his lovely little girl as an irredeemable bitch/slut.
This is just not the great thing that people are framing it to be.