I remember as far back as the early 2000s there were people on GTA forums complaining how GTA hadn’t had any female leads and saying in wish list threads that the next game should have a female protagonist. I’m glad we’ve made it this long without their wet dream becoming my reality, although that too is most likely just a matter of time.
Not to be a dick to women who want representation in video games they don’t play (and still don’t buy even when the protagonist is a female cause it’s still mostly men who buy the games even then), but unlike a certain fringe sector of the society I don’t have these fantasies that women should look and act and think and do the same as men and be above men or beneath men – women are women and they know it. They like to talk about how their day was and to go to a hair salon with their girlfriends – not beat-up bad guys while rescuing people from a shuttle that’s about to crash into the sun. Women like exaggerated tough, smart, capable men, who will protect them from bad things, and men like exaggerated slender, pretty, gentle, loyal women who are good mothers worthy of protecting from bad things.
There are female leads I like such as Lara Croft and others who manage to be awesome while also ticking all of the other boxes, but I don’t see whom it benefits other than enemies of our society (or any society) to spread a false stereotype of gender roles as being the new norm.
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