2013-05-29, 01:17 PM
Kabanaw Wrote:The problem is that you see the tropes of women being used as token storytelling tools, some of which involve brutalizing women, and say that that's appealing. Why the pineapple is that appealing?! What is god damn appealing about seeing a defenseless woman get tortured?
These tropes aren't going to make gamers of any intelligence level change their perception of women because this is already how society thinks of women. A lot of men going out to bars think that getting a woman in bed so they can get laid is the ultimate prize. A lot of people on the internet think that because they are nice to a girl, they deserve the girl. Video game tropes aren't building the subconscious idea that women are a prize, possession or a tool because that's already there.
I thought it was fairly obvious that we were talking about the "friend/relative/SO getting kidnapped/murdered and guy going out to seek revenge" trope and not the actual brutalizing of women.
And no, I really don't agree that the trope proliferates the idea that women are possessions. You see what you want to see. The example from her video where the bad guy goes "Now, I take from you" and shoots the girlfriend doesn't imply that the girlfriend is his possession. How would it be any different if it was his brother?