.@carolynmichelle what if the creators stand by these choices. What if they see them as the "better choices"?
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Then we have the freedom to criticize those choices.
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It is in no way "sexism!" In fact you could consider it the exact opposite. Sexism is women being property!
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dear lord dude, the Zelda games are amazing. The stories are BAD sexist tropes that predate America. Deal with it.
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Even if there was sexism, normal human beings can differentiate between reality and gaming.
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Sorry but games, like films and television, do influence cultural attitudes about gender, race, sexuality, violence, politics etc.
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ex. Rimworld's gender algorithms
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I think there's an anxiety about such choices feeling "forced", but a good designer/writer should want the challenge.
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granted, it'd be nice if people would stop calling anything that breaks the norm "forced", but that's another issue.
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tfw yr trying to make games a legitimate medium and it turns into having to convince kids that art influences culture
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