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If Gamers Want More Powerful Women Then Stop Being Afraid Of Them (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lae'zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it's okay to embrace women in video games like them.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So the author argues that unlikable characters should be liked because: buzzword, buzzword, woman, buzzword and that the customers are wrong. It's art, it's subjective, and that means people can also not like it. If it is indeed the case a vocal group of customers are finding it hard to get into the game because some characters are perceived as badly written, I doubt this is because they are all misogynistic neck-beards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, "people don't like the racist authoritarian because she's a woman" sure is a hot take.