When it comes to video games and gamers, one of the major narratives by the regressive left is that gamers hate women, and don't want women depicted in video games (unless they are NPCs that can be abused in some manner), and so on and so forth. They keep repeating this factoid like a mantra.
Yet, they have very little evidence of this. They willingly completely ignore the fact that some of the most renowned and beloved video game protagonists are female (such as Lara Croft and Chell). Many of the highest-rated and best-selling games have females as playable characters, side characters, or both. Whenever, for example, a new installment of the Tomb Raider game series is announced, you don't see many complaints about yet another game with a chick. On the contrary, these games tend to be very popular and anticipated. Nobody complained when Alien: Isolation starred the character of Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley (from the movie series). It's one of the best-rated and most renowned games in existence.
It's almost as if gamers love well-written characters and well-made games, and it doesn't really matter if the character happens to be male or female.
Yet, social justice warriors purposefully ignore all that, and pretend as if gamers always complain when there are female characters in video games.
Many gamers oppose artificially inserting identity politics into their hobby, in order to push a real-life sociopolitical agenda and message. The problem is not that a character might be female, or black, or whatever. The problem is why the writers decided to make it so. If gamers get the impression that they made it so in order to push a sociopolitical agenda, to shove real-life politics down the gamers' collective throats, that's when they have a problem with it.
The underlying logic enacted by the social justice warriors is this: If somebody opposes the insertion of identity politics, eg. in the form of a particular "minority" character, into a work of fiction, that must mean that person hates that type of minority. "Oh, you protest the introduction of a female character here? That means you hate women! Misogynist!"
They willingly ignore that gamers hate the reason why the character was introduced, not that the character happens to be a woman or whatever.
Yet, they have very little evidence of this. They willingly completely ignore the fact that some of the most renowned and beloved video game protagonists are female (such as Lara Croft and Chell). Many of the highest-rated and best-selling games have females as playable characters, side characters, or both. Whenever, for example, a new installment of the Tomb Raider game series is announced, you don't see many complaints about yet another game with a chick. On the contrary, these games tend to be very popular and anticipated. Nobody complained when Alien: Isolation starred the character of Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley (from the movie series). It's one of the best-rated and most renowned games in existence.
It's almost as if gamers love well-written characters and well-made games, and it doesn't really matter if the character happens to be male or female.
Yet, social justice warriors purposefully ignore all that, and pretend as if gamers always complain when there are female characters in video games.
Many gamers oppose artificially inserting identity politics into their hobby, in order to push a real-life sociopolitical agenda and message. The problem is not that a character might be female, or black, or whatever. The problem is why the writers decided to make it so. If gamers get the impression that they made it so in order to push a sociopolitical agenda, to shove real-life politics down the gamers' collective throats, that's when they have a problem with it.
The underlying logic enacted by the social justice warriors is this: If somebody opposes the insertion of identity politics, eg. in the form of a particular "minority" character, into a work of fiction, that must mean that person hates that type of minority. "Oh, you protest the introduction of a female character here? That means you hate women! Misogynist!"
They willingly ignore that gamers hate the reason why the character was introduced, not that the character happens to be a woman or whatever.
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