Weegee said:
pearljammer said:
I admit, I haven't read most of it. Just enough to noticed that it had become page after page of discussion on Fire Emblem.
How are gender differences sexist? That's absurd. There are plenty of differences between genders; acknowledging them is far from sexist.
Perhaps you mean their capabilities? Hell, in all of the FE games that I've played there have been plenty of useful, empowered, strong female characters; and there has been plenty of male characters who fit that description. Are there just as many powerful females are there are males and do their collective importance equal that of the males... I have no damn idea. It really doesn't matter. Going by that standard, every piece of media ever created is likely sexist.
I really, really don't understand. Females in FE are not typified as helpless, weak, dependent, useless or anything of the sort. They have plenty of strengths, albeit sometimes different, but no less important (or useful), like the males. I think you're misusing the word 'sexism.'
As I said, I haven't read everything, so I may be misjudging what you're saying. Let me know if I am.
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No gender diference is not sexist I know but fire emblem the ratio of strong male is not equal (they are more guy than girl so more strong guy than girl). The programmer could avoid this by making simply more girl in the game but they did not do it and they put diference gender in a world where magic broke all we know (If the developper always make girl with less str , hp and def that become a stereotype and not a good one). When a stereotype in negative it became sexism if it aplies to all guy or girl (in fire emblem it aplie to girl) Also another stereotype from Fire emblem is girl have always need protection , often lost hope (and need suport) and have rarely leadership. This is again again a bad stereotype and again it's almost always apply to girl and don't forget that if you make a bad streotype toward a group , it's become discrimination and if it's toward the guy or girl , it's become sexism.
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So your complaint is that they are not all statistically the same? I'd say you'd have a point if most/all the females were less useful than their male counterparts, but they're not. Why would you want it tailored to a point where the creators are practically making androgynous characters? This also goes back to what I was saying earlier: If you were to hold this standard to every piece of media, you'd likely find that just about everything is sexist (to you) one way or another.
"Also another stereotype from Fire emblem is girl have always need protection , often lost hope (and need suport) and have rarely leadership."
In FE 9 and 10:
- Elincia and Sanaki both were protected (one almost exclusively by females!) but both were royalty. It's hardly unexpected nor is it sexist to have them being protected (honestly, I feel sill even explaining this).
- Mist. Ike had protected her, however it is normal for him to be protective just as it was for Boyd and Oscar to be protective over Rolf. Same thing.
- Miciah. She was both like a brother to Sothe and an inspiriation to her people; being a target, of course he had felt compelled to protect her. She didn't need protection from Sothe though... he did so as a brother. Would I be sexist if I had protected my sister from whatever? This is absurd.
- All three of these females were strong (or had become) strong leaders. They had to lean on others at times in order to achieve their goals... But what leader wouldn't? Both Ashnard and Ike had leaned on others. That doesn't make them dependants.
Anyhow, you can have the last word here. I can't see this going far when you're essentially saying that practically every movie, game, comic, anime, show, by this standard, is sexist.
