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admittedly there are some posters in here who are sexist dudes that feel threatened whenever the patriarchy is threatened, and that's not okay I'm not suggesting that nobody talk about it - in fact, that's what I'm trying to do by pointing out that I believe that Peach is a poor example of this particular issue, and focusing on tame by comparison Mario series is probably a waste of time when there are games that exemplify this problem in much more offensive ways (which are also easier to spot and discuss, and more difficult to ignore, making them much more efficient topics for discussion)

identifying a problem is meaningless without a proposed solution, as the existence of a solution is the most objective way to prove to the masses that the problem actually exists

yeah whatever mono

how and where is Peach marketed as a role model I'm not really sure what the point of this anecdote is yeah let's force female characters to be a certain way because girls are only allowed to look at other girls as role models that sure isn't sexist at all

your implication if I understand correctly is that Princess Peach is a negative role-model for girls; your reasoning is bad because 1) there's not really any evidence to suggest that Princess Peach is supposed to be or is actively interpreted as role-model of any capacity 2) implying that Princess Peach cannot be the character that she already is because a female character has to be [x] is sexist; one could argue that Princess Peach's character was produced out of sexist character tropes from a largely patriarchal society (and I agree), however to argue that the trope of damsel in distress just should not exist is irrational and deleterious to the idea of gender equality 3) in mainline Mario platformers, the Mario Bros. and Princess Peach are largely lacking in actual characterization; all of the examples of video games in which Princess Peach is an actual character with written dialogue, she's an arguably positive character (or at the very least, the worst of the negative character traits that she's accused of having are reduced to the point of being negligible) my point here is that I think that while there are many, many examples of shitty female characters and patriarchal sexism in video games, Princess Peach is probably a pretty shitty example to be using at the forefront of ones thoughts regarding this particular issue

so you don't have time to play video games but you have enough time to argue about them on the internet

actually in Super Paper Mario Bowser and Peach are forced to marry by the actual villain, Count Bleck which maybe you'd know if you like played it

and yet here we are talking about how sexist it is

my point is that it doesn't really seem as though you've played any mario games

have you ever like played any mario games

so riversound do you like hate women or do you like hate women

what the hell is your point

this is a good post

calling an argument a straw man is in itself a straw man

I just want to point out that even in cases where it's more or less justified to do so, actually saying the phrase 'check your privilege' is literally the douchebaggiest possible way to tell people to learn more about class/gender/race issues and by doing so you're just making everything worse

yeah I get that but see the issue is that stupid people often accuse good female characters of being bad female characters because the positive traits they have are due to a lack of femininity or an abundance of masculinity I say they're stupid in doing this because declaring a character's positive qualities to be inherently 'masculine' whilst also criticizing them for not featuring negative 'feminine' qualities is irrational and confusing and sexist

what does it mean to be capable in a feminine way

I mean I guess I could try and then find out that filming myself talking in front of a blank background with occasional snippets of video games playing for twenty minutes total actually somehow costs thousands and thousands of dollars but I'm a lot more content in just assuming that that's not really the case at all

I don't know man I'm pretty sure I could make a video with the production values of this one in about a week and it wouldn't cost me a dime

man that sure looked like a video that took thousands of crowdsourced dollars to produce

ahahahahahHAHAHAHAH

HEY YEAH I'D REALLY LIKE TO PLAY THIS GAME SO IF A STORE NEAR ME COULD ACTUALLY GET MORE THAN TWO COPIES AT A FUCKING TIME THAT WOULD BE SWELL nhrg

Bayonetta 2 is being published by Nintendo. I'm pretty sure it will remain an exclusive.

THIS IS FIRST ON MY TO-DO LIST FOR TOMORROW. bo

the opening notes to the credits music of OoT will make me cry every time