Female protagonist? What do you think?

[lestatdark]

I_hate_Itagaki said:

Khuutra said:

I_hate_Itagaki said:

Khuutra said:

Looks like I'm bad at staying away.

Differences and discrimination are not the same thing. Fire Emblem is chalk full of perfectly strong, fully realized, sexually confident men and women and has some of the most even-handed representations of all genders. Your original point was that women were weaker, which is to say they were worse in a fight and have less utility. That's verifiably false. You've tried to claim that women in Fire Emblem are all stereotyped in the Japanese way (which is to say weak and dependent) and that's both wrong and mildly racist.

Demanding perfect gender equality is not how you fight sexism. Trying to deny certain inherent differences between the sexes is its own special kind of sexism because it implies that there is a certain default mindset that should be portrayed for everyone - and it's predominantly male.

And for the record, yes, there is at least one case off the top of my head where a woman protects a man in Fire Emblem: Louise is the one who guards her husband Pent, in spite of him being an extremely powerful mage.

@Mr Khan:

I agree with point 3 in principle, but there are (very large) schools of critical analysis that reject authorial intent altogether and look at a work in a vacuum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDlcyio0QC4&feature=related

Have we gotten to the point where you're not willing to mount an argument anymore? Why not? I want to get to the root of why you think gender representation has to be not equal but identical in order to avoid sexism. As someone who takes gender relations and depictions in media fairly serious, the idea seems counterproductive, especially since identical representation results in everyone being either men or men who have boobs.

I don't care. Arguing with you is pointless. It's like talking to a wall. Identical? Well in a world with dragons and magic, that would be nice. You know, a girl fighting with a sword with equal strength as her male counterpart (Dont forget the magic world). It would be illogical? Think twice. Fallout devellopers didnt even put differences between sexes in a realistic world. Also, the part about men with boobs is just stupid, it's a game man, a game!

Actually there a lot of cases in which this happens, even on japanese developed games. 

Dragon Quest IV Alena, Lufia II Selen, Final Fantasy XIII Fang, Final Fantasy IX Beatrice (which was way stronger than Steiner), Grandia II Tio. 

These are some of the cases in which a female character has equal, if not higher, strength and power equivalent to their male counterparts.