Women constantly playing the victim is getting tiresome anymore. I refuse to believe that any logical, level-headed human being would be somehow mentally damaged by cartoon characters with large breasts. It's just ridiculous and in America in particular, this "victim" culture has been rising higher than ever lately. If you look at the characters in this game and are left psychologically affected in a negative way, then I would suggest that you have an inferiority complex to begin with. I am a male and despite the rather silly comments on here about male characters representing "someone I would like to be" and therefor not subject to the same type of scrutiny that a female character would be is patently ridiculous to the extreme. So what is it we should do? make ALL characters, male and female some type of formless stick figure as to not offend anyone? Surely if they were skinny, then the overweight crowd would be offended. If they were blue-eyed then the brown-eyed people would be offended. It's a can of worms best left alone. The bottom line is this; If you are offended by the way the characters are drawn, simply DO NOT PLAY THE GAME. And as for you NINTENDO LIFE, are you seriously considering NOT giving attention to games that OBJECTIFY women? Do yourselves and all of your readers a favor and do not go down that road for it's simply CENSORSHIP by exclusion. Have any of you given thought to the fact that MARIO and LUIGI might be offensive to Italians? Should be boycott Mario? Anyone? Where does my "victim" crowd stand on this one? Nintendo Life, would you care to comment on this?
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Re: Soapbox: Ignoring The Objectification Of Women In Games Won't Make the Problem Go Away
Women constantly playing the victim is getting tiresome anymore. I refuse to believe that any logical, level-headed human being would be somehow mentally damaged by cartoon characters with large breasts. It's just ridiculous and in America in particular, this "victim" culture has been rising higher than ever lately. If you look at the characters in this game and are left psychologically affected in a negative way, then I would suggest that you have an inferiority complex to begin with. I am a male and despite the rather silly comments on here about male characters representing "someone I would like to be" and therefor not subject to the same type of scrutiny that a female character would be is patently ridiculous to the extreme. So what is it we should do? make ALL characters, male and female some type of formless stick figure as to not offend anyone? Surely if they were skinny, then the overweight crowd would be offended. If they were blue-eyed then the brown-eyed people would be offended. It's a can of worms best left alone. The bottom line is this; If you are offended by the way the characters are drawn, simply DO NOT PLAY THE GAME. And as for you NINTENDO LIFE, are you seriously considering NOT giving attention to games that OBJECTIFY women? Do yourselves and all of your readers a favor and do not go down that road for it's simply CENSORSHIP by exclusion. Have any of you given thought to the fact that MARIO and LUIGI might be offensive to Italians? Should be boycott Mario? Anyone? Where does my "victim" crowd stand on this one? Nintendo Life, would you care to comment on this?