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Stellar Blade: Woke Activists Enraged By Video Games With Attractive Female Characters

Posted by freedomforall 6 months, 1 week ago to Entertainment
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"Recently we covered the exposure of leftist activist run "consulting firms" that have been discreetly involved in the widespread wokification of the video games industry. These firms have been know to operate on a protection racket-like model: They threaten video game developers with the cancel-culture mob unless they hire said firm to "fix" their games for them. This fixing usually involves a host of DEI requirements, from forced diversity to the inclusion of LGBT related propaganda for the kiddies.

The reason these consulting outfits exist is singular - They do not care about games, gaming or gamers. In fact, they seem to hate game consumers with a passion. Their only purpose is to inject as much woke ideology as possible into an industry they know has immense influence on the next generation. Leftists see video games as a platform to manipulate the collective thinking of the future.

One agenda which has been incredibly important to them is their war on the "male gaze" and western beauty standards in general. The reasons for this are varied.

Some activists believe that men should not be allowed to set standards for women in any form, even though women set standards frequently for men. Biological imperatives and inherent attractions for men are treated as "toxic aggression" that needs to be snuffed out.

Other activists argue that beauty representations in popular media are "unattainable" and cause young girls and women to have a negative sense of self worth. In reality, many beauty standards are perfectly attainable through self improvement, but this is a violation of the "beauty at any size" cult as well as claims by feminists that attractiveness is nothing more than a social construct.

Perhaps traditional beauty is attainable for most women - It's just not attainable for feminists.

Then there are those people that want to completely subvert what it is to be a woman. The trans movement is distinctly aware of depictions of women in pop culture and they have sought to make females appear more masculine wherever possible. Why? Maybe because they believe this will speed up the acceptance of trans women (men) as "real women." If movies or video games are saturated with manly looking women then the concept of natural femininity could be lost, at least in theory. "
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stellar-blade-woke-activists-enraged-video-games-attractive-female-characters


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  • Posted by $ BobCat 6 months, 1 week ago
    Hmm, it's somewhat heartening to watch the left bicker and fight among themselves as to how a woman is to be portrayed. These sorts of conflicts only re-emphasizes the fact that the communists are not united in their collective beliefs and dogmas. I think this might be their Achilles' Heel.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 6 months, 1 week ago
    Just another attempt to tweak the criteria of evolution, where the purpose of male/female combinations is the continued production of more humans, and improved quality of humans. By what characteristics do males and females select their mates? Strength, competence, survival power... people have intuitive perceptions of higher quality in potential mates: physical health and fitness, mental acuity, personal appeal, a generally accepted standard of physical "beauty" that implies superior genes for reproduction.

    An entire cosmetics industry and cosmetic surgery grew up around the need to provide illusions of greater attractiveness and quality. How are actors, actresses, and fashion models selected for the current standards? They've ranged from athletic excellence to Twiggy-like emaciation. The whole range is usually in effect to select from. History is filled with heroic characters from Greek mythology to Viking vigor. Greek goddesses pictured by Renaissance painters capture the classic features considered admirable, to be worshipped even in humans. Physical excellence is recognized by all, dictated to their tastes by the genetic fitness program.

    So what is driving the cultural mutations of taste? The competition between more desirable and less desirable characteristics invokes countermeasures, such as described in your article of seeking to change the appearance of genders even in games. Modifying the culture to put down positive qualities reflects the general transformation of ideas of "equity". Remove conditions of superiority, whether in looks or brains or wealth. It's an interesting case of seeking self-preservation by removing ideas of natural selection that would leave some at a disadvantage. Just another branch of socialistic finagling to level the playing field by selectively disadvantaging those seen as somehow superior.

    It won't work in the long run. There is enough natural reproduction that the species can let transgender folk have their fun without extinguishing nature's million-year formula for the preservation and continuation of life through genes and memes.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 5 months, 2 weeks ago
    This is nothing more than a classic case of envy. Have you ever seen a physically attractive woke female? I sure haven't. There's something in the ideology which is a massive turnoff and makes them unattractive. And bitter (my wife added). It's a classic case of wanting something both ways.
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