curl-6 on 14 October 2014
| pokoko said: I don't know if I would call it sexist but it certainly uses sex to sell copies. Now, I don't actually have a problem with that, as I think people go crazy with what "sexist" means, but please don't throw words like "liberated" in there as a counter. Bayonetta is as much about sex as a selling tool as any of those other Japanese games people attack so often. Trying to rationalize that away because you like the game changes nothing. She doesn't do stripper moves or torture angels because she's secure in her femininity, she does it because the creators thought it was sexy and that it would attract guys. |
You're confusing in-game character with marketing.
The game uses sex to advertise itself. And there's nothing wrong with that.
But Bayonetta isn't sexist, because it's not portraying a character subservient to the will of men or whose sexuality is shackled, it portrays a strog, confident and empowered woman who kicks arse and takes names.
