I'm less bothered by this view than I am with how the game emotionally pits the player against himself to make a point any grown up adult can figure out in 5 mn. How it denies the player's agency at the same time is highly problematic, from a design point of view.
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It's not an interpretation, it is how the events unfold in the game. Why does she feel bad only then and not when witnessing Joel's physical pain or Ellie's despair in the beginning of the game?? Empathie is not about being on the receiving end to understand someone else's pain.
But I agree, Ellie's story arc is worse. I guess she couldn't benefit from a good dicking to progress (sorry, I'm really disappointed at the backwards narrative.. too many tropes for me)I was only talking about the "good dicking" to calm her down. Your point of view about Empathy is correct! It's a really interesting matter. I understand the narrative of the game and why it does it this way, but I also understand why you're mad about it. So I had nothing to add.
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Tbh I remembered the "good dicking" part later. But it struck me bc this is something that women are told regularly when we are angry. We are told it will "calm us down" (Gadsby explains it well in Nanette). The fact that the game literally puts it in situation is really gross.
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