GTA 6 is feminist slop (Video essay by LaurenZside)

velma@sh.itjust.works · 1 day

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48708819

Women ruined gaming again… Note: This is my first EVER scripted & researched video essay commentary video! Leave a like to let me know if you want more of this kind of video in the future!

This video is interesting insofar as it’s the creator’s first venture into video commentary. Due to the hype surrounding GTA6, the fascist/anti-feminist backlash bleeds into the mainstream and now people who had previously not been aware of the fascist/anti-feminist content on social media are exposed to it. [Most of the fascist/anti-feminist content creators she mentions are the usual suspects of fascist/anti-feminist content and have been at it for years.]

sbbq@lemmy.zip · 1 day

She ain’t wrong, a lot of (male?) gamers are just extremely toxic children.

If it upsets you to see someone different than you depicted as powerful in media, you are some kind of bigot.

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 21 hours

All you gotta do is go back to horizon. One of my favorite games…and bam neckbeards getting all butthurt that a woman is the main character and not running around with huge boobs and no clothing on. They did the same shit with the new tomb raider. They were pissed that croft didn’t have huge tits and a huge ass in tiny shorts and a crop top…and it was such a good game, that it also was a favorite of mine.

End of the day, it’s neckbeards and wanna be alphas trying to be relevant.

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 hours

I’ll admit to being a little gutted about Lara Crofts design direction, but thats because I’m horny not sexist. I haven’t played any since 2 and the top-down co-op one though so I’m not really allowed to comment.

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 1 hour

The latest one that rebooted the franchise with a British VA, is really really good. You should give it a go, it’s cheap and on sale all the time.

Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 16 hours

Horizon such awesome story and game. Was also the fact that the female character was also asexual. I also found it one of my favorites.

edible_funk@sh.itjust.works · 41 minutes

Aloy isn’t exactly ace, at least she’s definitely not aro. She ends up with an adorable crush on a character in the second game.

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 4 hours

Yea it was awesome, finding out how everything went to shit was so good and finding little stories of the past buried everywhere made the game that much better. Usually I skip a lot of that filler, because it’s usually just that, filler, but for some reason the filler in HZD didn’t feel like it and had me hunting for it, trying to piece together what had happened.

11111one11111@lemmy.world · 24 hours

I would expand that out to onclude anybody that spends more free time infront of a screen away from other humans, are a toxic bunch.

Wish there was a way to track the amount of opinions you have reqd on the internet but have never ran into in the real world lol.

velma@sh.itjust.works · 23 hours

I can personally confirm that these opinions do not live online only.

velma@sh.itjust.works · 1 day

"Now, none of these criticisms individually proves that somebody hates women. You can hate Lucia as a character. You can prefer male protagonists. You can think a female character is unrealistically strong. You can hate girl boss writing. None of that automatically makes you misogynistic. But when every woman is too powerful, every female character is DEI, every man who respects a woman is emasculated, every female developer is responsible for something becoming worse, and every piece of media that starts appealing to women has been taken over. I’m allowed to notice the pattern. And maybe I’m more sensitive to this because I’ve spent my entire life and career in gaming.

When I started making gaming content, this space was overwhelmingly male. It’s one of the biggest reasons why I decided to make this channel. Women have always played games. There were just fewer of us, and the culture wasn’t always particularly welcoming when we did show up. We were called fake gamers. We only played games to get attention. The games we did like weren’t real games. We weren’t funny. We weren’t good enough. If we were successful, it was because men watched us because we were women. And things did feel like they got better for a little while. But lately, I feel like this is all coming back into mainstream internet culture,
just using different vocabulary. Now, you’re not saying women don’t belong here. You’re saying DEI ruin this. You’re not saying I don’t want a female protagonist, or maybe some of you are. You’re saying I’m tired of girl bosses. You’re not saying women shouldn’t have power. You’re saying they’re emasculating the male characters. And sometimes those criticisms are legitimate, but sometimes it’s just resentment toward women, just with some better branding now. And I think women like myself need to start being willing to say that out loud, even if it’s scary.

Like, I’ll be honest, I’ve been terrified to make this video. I’ve been scripting it for over a week because I know some of the kinds of people that it’s going to attract into my comment section, but I am so so tired of just standing by and letting these other just ragebait voices be amplified because we’ve built an internet economy where telling young men that women are ruining their lives and telling women that all men are horrible gets clicks. So, here’s my question to all of those people who said that GTA 6 looks like feminist slop already:

What kind of woman in gaming are you actually okay with?

Lucia is weaker than Jason, less important than Jason, less assertive than Jason, would that be acceptable? Because if that’s the only kind of female character you’re comfortable with, then we’re not debating character development anymore. We’re debating where women belong. And I’m not interested in negotiating that. Women don’t need to make ourselves feel smaller so that men can feel masculine. A woman succeeding doesn’t mean a man failed. A woman being strong doesn’t make a man weak. A woman having power isn’t inherently feminist propaganda. And a man loving, respecting, or compromising with a woman doesn’t make him less of a man. If your masculinity requires the woman standing next to you to either have less power than you or to not exist at all there, she isn’t the one making you look weak. So maybe GTA 6 comes out and Lucia is the worst character. Maybe Jason is the worst character. Maybe Rockstar completely ruins GTA. I don’t need Lucia to be a good character because she’s a woman. I just want her to be a good character so the game is fun. But I’m also not going to sit here and pretend the reaction that we’re seeing exists entirely because everybody has suddenly become deeply concerned with rock stars writing."

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 1 day

Worth watching… I never got all the alarm. You can play as a strong woman in Cyberpunk2077 and nobody gave a shit…but maybe that’s because it was a binary choice, where in GTA you can play as one or the other, but the other is always going to be there.

Incels are stupid and should go back to their fucking mom’s basement.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 1 day

Technically in Cyberpunk it’s not “one or the other” as you can mix and match genders and genitalia.

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 1 day

True, but I think overwhelmingly it’s that it’s a single character and you get to choose… I’m just surprised that more of these incel idiots aren’t complaining about the gender-fluidness, same-sex relationships, etc…

But because this one pushes the relationship as a part of the game play, everyone fucking suddenly hates it…

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 22 hours

But because this one pushes the relationship as a part of the game play, everyone fucking suddenly hates it…

Yup. This might be what makes the difference. Misogyny is still the root issue, of course, but players have to deal with a woman as a main character with agency instead of as a subservient sex object and they don’t like it.

As far as “woke” goes, pretty nuts to say strong women engaging in criminal activity are a political fabrication and not, you know, an actual reality. See: cocaine kingpin (queenpin?) Griselda Blanco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 14 hours

Women are WAY meaner than men when they want to be…I think thats what incel idiots don’t like…the reminder that most of them could kill us in our sleep without a regret…

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 24 hours

They pushed Niko’s relationships with everyone in GTA 4, and people look back on that fairly fondly.

This just seems like fake outrage.

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 15 hours

Well, I think their outrage is very real, it’s just also very stupid.

Anon7394@sh.itjust.works · 20 hours

Just finished replaying gta4 a week ago, I just ignored the relationship bait and had no issues. It’s entirely optional.

42yeah@eviltoast.org · 24 hours

Do people downvote this post based on the title alone? :(

pory@lemmy.world · 18 hours

Hey i downvoted because I’m sick of hearing take #9001 about this bloated fucking industry-sucking game that isn’t even out yet.

Ech@lemmy.ca · 22 hours

Do you expect people to watch a video with that title?