As "discourse," this shit is tired, but man, there are still SO MANY people, and they are out in droves at the moment, who try to defend objectified female characters as "sexual," and frame criticism of them as being against "sexual expression." This remains as absurd as ever.
Perhaps we can have both. But certainly in the 90s we really didn't, and often we really haven't. It's getting better, but by being the standard at the time, as valuable as Lara was to a lot of us, she also helped a lot of dudes feel comfortable that gaming was a space...
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...in which women could and should be sexually attractive and available to them specifically. I'm not all that interested in intent. Impact is what matters. And as a trans woman who came to prominence in that culture when I did, well...
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...the experiences I had left no doubt in my mind that a lot of men in those spaces fundamentally lacked something one requires to see women as human beings. That is 100% of course not Lara's "fault," but she also didn't threaten that, really, and there was a real dearth of...
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