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GTA 6 is feminist slop (Video essay by LaurenZside) (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48708819

Women ruined gaming again… Note: This is my first EVER scripted & researched video essay commentary video! Leave a like to let me know if you want more of this kind of video in the future!

This video is interesting insofar as it's the creator's first venture into video commentary. Due to the hype surrounding GTA6, the fascist/anti-feminist backlash bleeds into the mainstream and now people who had previously not been aware of the fascist/anti-feminist content on social media are exposed to it. [Most of the fascist/anti-feminist content creators she mentions are the usual suspects of fascist/anti-feminist content and have been at it for years.]

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[–] 18 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Worth watching... I never got all the alarm. You can play as a strong woman in Cyberpunk2077 and nobody gave a shit...but maybe that's because it was a binary choice, where in GTA you can play as one or the other, but the other is always going to be there.

Incels are stupid and should go back to their fucking mom's basement.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    Technically in Cyberpunk it's not "one or the other" as you can mix and match genders and genitalia.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    True, but I think overwhelmingly it's that it's a single character and you get to choose... I'm just surprised that more of these incel idiots aren't complaining about the gender-fluidness, same-sex relationships, etc...

    But because this one pushes the relationship as a part of the game play, everyone fucking suddenly hates it...

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

    But because this one pushes the relationship as a part of the game play, everyone fucking suddenly hates it…

    Yup. This might be what makes the difference. Misogyny is still the root issue, of course, but players have to deal with a woman as a main character with agency instead of as a subservient sex object and they don't like it.

    As far as "woke" goes, pretty nuts to say strong women engaging in criminal activity are a political fabrication and not, you know, an actual reality. See: cocaine kingpin (queenpin?) Griselda Blanco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco

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  • [+] -8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Women are WAY meaner than men when they want to be...I think thats what incel idiots don't like...the reminder that most of them could kill us in our sleep without a regret...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Women are WAY meaner than men when they want to be…I

    Women are expected to be kind and friendly, so any 'mean' woman appears more cruel than socially accepted whereas it is often more acceptable for a man to be cold or blunt. Combine that with women often having to be more consistent with their communication to be taken seriously by their counterparts. Women do not have any greater capability for cruelty nor are they any more capable of homicide than a man.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    They pushed Niko's relationships with everyone in GTA 4, and people look back on that fairly fondly.

    This just seems like fake outrage.

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