Metroid: Other M ruined gaming's greatest heroine ? Agree or not ?

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

superchunk said:

No. I am almost finished with the game and while I dislike one part (obvious breakdown) the rest of the game still fits just fine. There is no reason a woman cannot be feminine and a strong warrior at the same time. To state otherwise is really just sexism in my opinion.

I don't think femininity is the problem being discussed, here, but weakness and subservience.

It's weakness and subservience that would have been in place in a male character in this case. Maybe not expressed in entirely the same way, but her desire to prove herself to her former CO by showing how she can follow orders isn't farfetch'd.

 

d21lewis expressed it well at one point, suggesting that it was just like running into those people you knew in high school, a world you left long ago, but you still want to impress them. Hell, it's the entire mentality behind high school reunions in the first place. In her case she wanted to prove she had matured by showing that she could be a team player

 

You're casting subservience in a negative light, here. Now we could debate about whether it was a good idea to present that into the plot at all, but on taking the work as it is, subservience isn't a negative factor