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    7 days ago

    As a straight guy, does this kinda thing annoy anyone else? She’s a strong female character in video games, but just because she’s a woman, designers made her a sexualized super model in skin-tight spandex. It feels pandering at best, and sexist at worst

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        Yes, we know. That’s why it’s funny. But it still makes the point.

        But have you ever seen them make a “zero-suit” version of a male armoured guy?
        Don’t recall Master Chef or the Doom Marine running around in their skintight underlayers.

        Additionally, Samus debuted in a game with no characterisation, and iirc, you only found out she wasn’t a man when she stripped down at the end of the game if you did well.

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      7 days ago

      It definitely annoys others, but in this case both characters are the same woman.

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      Not a video game, but my personal gripe was when GitS SAC had awesome everything except for the weird out of place (and ugly tbf) outfit on MC Kusanagi.

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        Did I just have a stroke? That’s a lot of letters that I can’t quite decipher

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          Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex (the original TV series); Main Character