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Guaranteed the word “woke” will be thrown around left and right

The thing is though, they don’t care about women in video games, they just care about “ugly” women in video games.

Welcome to 2024, where preferring art ~~to not be~~ that is not ugly is despicable behavior.

I know most left leaning people aren’t this extreme, but this really gives them a bad image and puts off a lot of people. Especially when the non extreme people jump to the defense out of the feeling that opposing extremes is the same as promoting the right.

EDIT: Change wording for clarity.

Dude, a lot of the most highly praised art in this world is weird and usually “ugly.” Art has nothing to do with being something you can masturbate to.

And this kind of shit is what I was talking about in the first place. Now it can’t even be art because it looks too lewd to you. Art is subjective, if you prefer

weird and usually “ugly.”

art, that is perfectly fine. But you don’t get to dictate what art other people like or what other people consider art.

What? It can be lewd too. Wtf? Art can be anything. You are the one that implied it has to be “beautiful.” Hell no. You don’t get to both act like you’re the dictator of art and that other people are actually being too strict with art. Art is whatever the creator wants it to be. You don’t get to decide that just because you can’t masturbate to the character that it isn’t art.

What? It can be lewd too. Wtf? Art can be anything. You are the one that implied it has to be “beautiful.”

I did not intend to imply anything of the sorts.

I intended to say it is perfectly fine to like and dislike any art you want. And it is your right to voice criticism of the art you dislike.

I kind of see how it could be interpreted that way and will edit the comment.

Art has nothing to do with being something you can masturbate to.

I also misunderstood this to mean something you masturbate to can’t be art. :(

Yeah, that’s correct. You can like or dislike any art. The people arguing it must only have sexy women or it’s bad are in the wrong. You can like sexy women, but that’s not a requirement and has a totally different set of goals to The Witcher 4 presumably.

Yeah, that’s correct. You can like or dislike any art. The people arguing it must only have sexy women or it’s bad are in the wrong.

Yes, you are correct. But that is a small minority of trolls.

What most people protest against is that publishers like Sony force censorship on developers and that self proclaimed “DEI consultancy” firms, “game journalists”, and other people lobby, pressure and extort developers to make characters uglier.

You conveniently ignored the quotes around “ugly” to go on your little rant there. These people already flip their shit when the woman is a mere mortal normal looking woman and not the perfectly shaped ridiculously curvy imperfection-free woman that incels think is the gold standard of attractiveness. Point in case: Star Wars Outlaws bad, Stellar Blade good

So they like their art to not be average looking, big deal. Different people have different preferences. If you prefer more average looking women, than say so and leave it at that. No need to belittle other peoples preferences or push your preferences onto others.

Yeah I guess we should just let people keep over analyzing the women in video games, pointing out every single imperfection, every pimple, every asymetry because thats what incels do. I’m sure the women in the real world love that behaviour 🤠 maybe you try talking to a women and see how she likes the portrayal of women in video games, and the coomers consuming said games

Yeah I guess we should just let people keep over analyzing the women in video games, pointing out every single imperfection, every pimple, every asymetry

Yes, you should let other people analyze whatever they feel like analyzing.

because thats what incels do. I’m sure the women in the real world love that behaviour 🤠

What does that have to do with you? If they want to stay incels, that is their problem.

I’m not gonna keep arguing because you’re clearly not interested in thinking about how the portrayal of women in media affects societies perception of women in real life. I urge you to take my advice and talk to women 🤠

you’re clearly not interested in thinking about how the portrayal of women in media affects societies perception of women in real life.

About as much as seeing violence in games is causing real life violence? Sane people can distinguish a game from reality.

I urge you to take my advice and talk to women 🤠

Shock and horror, they don’t bring this topic up. Those that talk about political topics with me have real issues they care about.

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