I really hate being a feminist killjoy. I hate feeling like some kind of scold. I really do. It makes me uncomfortable, & I feel like it makes me & my work feel tiresome and reductive to a lot of people. I get that. If I didn't think it was important, I would stop in a heartbeat.
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But the cultural impact of work matters. It's not the only thing that matters. But it REALLY matters. As a critic, to focus solely on the cultural impact of work is, I believe, reductive. To ignore it is, as a critic, irresponsible.
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So, 1990s Lara Croft. Yeah, I played and enjoyed the hell out of the early Tomb Raider games. I was immensely grateful at the time for a female action hero, even one who (let's not kid ourselves) was designed to appeal to male players.
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You can love Lara Croft. But if you don't think that the way she looked had the function--intentional or not--of perpetuating a gaming culture in which men viewed women as objects to whose bodies they were entitled, you're kidding yourself.
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Thank you, Carolyn! The male gaze and patriarchy can and does infect everything. That doesn't mean everything we love is bad, just that nothing is perfect or stands apart from culture. A work can be MORE, it can be subversive, it can resist, it can be reclaimed!
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