| Mr Khan said: Prurient interests really have no place in this discussion, or at least not this discussion specifically. We could hold discourse about the nature of Rule 34, and how everything remotely pornographic is inevitably made pornographic (or at least pruriently-oriented non-pornographic material), but that is separate from notions of the exploitation of Samus as an individual, simply because Rule 34 is equal-opportunity, and has made pretty much every respectable character into fapping/jilling material at some point. |
No, no. The existence of the material isn't what's on the slab, here.
It's that this is a topic about Samus's effectiveness as the faceless/voiceless hero and how she is, in some ways, a powerful feminist symbol in spite of not being inherently feminine, and how that plays into the larger discourse about that archetype, and how the use of sex as a reward for performance undermines her essential strengths and is pandering in the worst possible way - and then you guys post pictures of Samus with disproportionately enlarged boobs for the sake of posting them
