| Desroko said: I really like Steven's idea of making the hero a local man (or woman). It solves (to an extent) the image problem of a white man gunning down Africans, and it provides a lot of pathos. |
I do not think so. They would find another minor issue on the game and whine about it.
Look at the claims of RE4 being sexist.
There at least 4 kinds of women in this game.
1) Ashley design was considered to be sexist due to the fact that she was frail and depended on Leon's help to survive. She was also the cute girl type (some people do not think so). For crying out loud she was the president's daughter. What do you expect from the presidents daughter? Spoiled, rich and dependent girls.
2) Ada was the "I can take care of myself" woman. Sexy, acrobatic and smart. She saved Leon's life on several ocasions and even kicked his ass when he lost himself and tried to kill her. What is sexist about her? Well she is too sexy and dress in a way that pleases a lot of men. I kinda agree that she using high heels was a little lame, but she is far from the kind of DOA girl or Nina Willians from Death by Degrees.
3)Hunnigan, the Mei ling rip off. She is smart, beautiful and assists Leon along the journey. What is sexist about her? Nothing. But people do not want to analyze her considering it takes most of the logic from the RE4 is sexist argument.
4) The female Ganados. These are the toughest. Right at the start Leon sees a woman nailed at the wall with a pitchfork and says: "There is no gender discrimination among them". There is no significant difference in strenght between male and female in the game. The wort enemies in the game are females, the Bella sisters. There is no one I know that had not died at least once against them. Why they are sexist? Because they are fat and ugly housewives, when they should be ugly fat 40 yers old democrat business women (feminist stereotype).
The last comment was a little extreme but the point is that feminine cast in RE4 is so diverse that you cannot label the whole game as sexist.
Satan said:
"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
