Erm, I don't think most people actually have issues with digital renderings of fictional women in video games or fictional characters in films.. I think most are responding to these developers/studios hyping their products up and patting themselves on the back so much simply because they seem to be disingenuously propping up women to the forefront or worse, having this baseless hostility of essentially attacking those consumers who don't like their female-led works as sexist with little to no basis of proof (rather than address that it might merely be the quality or lack thereof of the product itself). Even if not everyone does the best job of communicating this at a core level, this is what I sense is the issue.
It seems to have become this catch-all way to absolve and deflect their work from any legitimate critique, which for my money seems to be somewhat condescending to women if anything. Ghostbusters is perhaps the biggest example of this, but Last Jedi is certainly another (despite the fact that The Force Awakens and Rogue One both have female leads and were pretty well received by comparison). People are beginning to see this as a way to use women as sort of human shields to deflect a poorly created product and a cheap loophole to bypass the foolproof capitalistic mantra of "the customer is always right" - This is certainly the way I see it anyway.
Obviously there are a few weirdos out there who actually are insecure enough to be uncomfortable or sexist enough to find beef with this trend, but they don't seem to be near the majority from where I sit.
Last edited by DarthMetalliCube - on 04 September 2018
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