a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
bioemerl  ·  3833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Editor's blog: I am sexist Let's talk about how, why and what I'm doing about it.

"The issue with The Perils of Pauline is that it was written and performed by people 50 years dead in an era concurrent with the Model T. "

Are old films suddenly taboo just because they are old?

Should we start considering all the silent films as sexist and offensive?

No.

My point is that this isn't a "blackface" example, no matter how much you are trying to make it out to be.

And that picture is kind of unnecessary, and it is honestly a really horrible example of blackface. I'm guessing it's some stupid celebrity bullshit I missed though, and I honestly couldn't care less about it.

Quit gobbling up everything that has been done wrong in attempt to relate it to this. If this achivement is wrong it will be wrong on it's own standing.

"That it's not okay to specifically kill a woman in a senselessly violent way."

This is in a videogame FULL of killing men in senselessly violent ways. And in an industry even more full of it.

If you want to say killing people is not ok, than take offense to video games in general, not sexism.

If you are saying that we shouldn't kill women in games, than you are doing the same thing that the "damsel in distress" trope is doing.

"There is no "trope.""

The tope I refer to is the "damsel in distress" trope, which exists to this very day.

"This is not "defeat a woman in battle." This is "find a defenseless woman and kill her."

Have you ever PLAYED red dead redemption?

This isn't exactly a game where those sorts of actions are unusual. Players in these games will often shoot people because they did nothing but look at them funny, or were just standing in the wrong place.

"Wishing does not make it so."

I don't need to wish.