Because sexism sucks and we want a more equitable world for everyone.
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Replying to @TheRoxxus
But media has a significant impact on our culture. It can reinforce dominant values of patriarchy and misogyny, or it can challenge them. Games historically have done the former more often than not.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
Explain how Super Mario negatively impacts today’s culture.
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Replying to @TheRoxxus
Any one individual game is a drop in the bucket. It's the ubiquitous pattern of women being used as damsels that's the problem.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
While I do agree, that’s what the games have always been about. You take that away, might as well not have another Mario game ever again.
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Replying to @TheRoxxus
Really? That aspect is SO IMPORTANT to the Mario games that a Mario game with incredible level design and delightful worlds to explore wouldn't be worth making if you didn't rescue Peach? What about SMB2 or 3D World?
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
SMB2 was a dream, and the faeries still needed to be saved. Point is there’s always going to be an antagonist and a protagonist conflict.
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Replying to @TheRoxxus
Yeeeeeah but...there are a million potential sources of conflict they could come up with that don't involve Peach being kidnapped again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
Of course, Bowser could steal any mcguffin and they could make a game out of it. But they stick to a formula that works.
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Sure. And we critique the sexism of constantly relying on that formula.
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Replying to @TheRoxxus
Sorry, you're asking...What makes criticizing sexism right? The fact that sexism is unjust and oppressive, and ought to be dismantled and done away with.
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