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    1. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      I loved Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II. And yet, Lara Croft, speaking in broad terms, contributed to a culture in which straight dudes felt that female characters should be designed and women should exist to cater to their desires. Both of these things can be true.

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    2. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      I mean I think some part of me is still trapped in that goddamn opera house. Holy shit, that fucking place.

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    3. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      Sometimes ppl respond to arguments like this one with stuff like "Okay, but Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones is considered like the hottest dude ever. It's the same. Male heroes are also supposed to be extremely attractive." And no, it's not remotely the same. Because patriarchy.

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    4. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      No reasonable person, IMO, is actually arguing for, like, a ban on attractive movie stars, or video game heroes, or comic book characters, or whatever. Nor is anyone really saying that female characters should never be desirable or express sexuality.

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    5. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      I mean, in my view, Ellie from The Last of Us is attractive, and when she kisses Riley at the end of Left Behind, it was such a huge moment not just because it was an expression of queer love but because it felt like an expression of what Ellie wanted for HERSELF as a character.

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    6. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      Believe it or not I want MORE of this kind of romantic & sexual expression from female chars in games, & less that feels like a hollow fulfillment of male fantasies. I mean, in TR 1&2, Lara was sexualized, she was what many find sexy, but she wasn't actually SEXUAL, was she?

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    7. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      Here's a story I'm fond of telling because I think it is extremely revealing. When I started at GameSpot and first appeared in a video, there were NUMEROUS comments to the effect that women on a site like GS should be attractive to the site's core demographic of straight dudes...

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    8. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      ...and that by hiring me, clearly a woman who was not hired because of my perceived attractiveness or desirability to these guys, GS was in effect betraying its customers. This mindset, that women exist in those spaces purely or primarily to please men, didn't come from a vacuum.

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    9. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      It was an attitude that years and years and years of video games, video game advertisements, magazines, websites, and other stuff had codified: Women in and around games should be desirable to you, the male consumer.

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    10. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      Other folks, like the great Jeff Gerstmann or Greg Kasavin or Kevin VanOrd, largely got to be valued for their experience, their perspectives, their opinions. As a woman in that space, I was earmarked as having another primary purpose,...

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      Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

      ...one which I utterly failed to fulfill right out of the gate. And trust me, you can draw a fairly straight line from stuff like 1990s Lara Croft to a gaming culture so steeped in patriarchy and male entitlement that I, and women in general, are and were often evaluated this way

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        1. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019

          Anti-feminist dudes are flocking to the defense of the Lara Croft celebrator, which kinda proves the point that such arguments only serve to make excuses for sexism.

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        2. MAXIMUM DEREK‏ @neurodivergers 16 Jun 2019
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          As a cishet man, let me thank you. Your passion and urgency helped me find mine. Now I advocate for accessibility in gaming and I make sure to organize inclusive panels. I've changed for the better because you and others have gotten me on the right direction. Thank you.

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        3. Carolyn Petit‏Verified account @carolynmichelle 16 Jun 2019
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          That's very kind of you to say and very moving to hear. Thank you. ❤️❤️❤️

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