Bayonetta 2 - an expression of freedom and not sexism

[pokoko]

curl-6 said:

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.

Huh?  I just said that I don't consider it sexist and that I don't have a moral problem with it.  

That doesn't mean that I don't think it's stupid that she's spreading her legs in the middle of fight, though.  The game uses over the top sexuality as a device to sell games to young men.  She might be confident and strong but she's also doing stripper moves for no actual reason.  That certainly is part of her in-game character.  It's no different than the characters in DoA wearing skimpy outfits into battle.