Tachikoma said:
Read the edit. Abuse is not empowerment. |
I agree with you, they are diferent things, and I don't think they are on the same spectrum.
Bayonetta tortures. Bayonetta abuses and kills and destroys and devastates. I don't think anybody is making the case that Bayonetta is a good moral person and role model. Very few characters in any games are good moral people. This is a power fantasy.
But she as a character certainly seems personally empowered rather than subjugated in her own sexuality. She is characterized by it because she "choses" to be. She indulges in it and the game emphasizes that a lot, but she is not reduced to it. In my opinion her depiction, to answer the question the thread is meant to address, is on the whole not sexist, merely indulgent.
