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What's something you used to like as a kid that you now, as an adult, realize had some pretty fucked up messaging? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.

Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was one of the main points on Anita Sarkisian's Tropes Vs Women in Video Games, how women are usually represented as the trophy to be won by the male playable character.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And internet misogynists spent decades screaming into the void because she pointed this out.