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VGPolyglot said:
contestgamer said:

You gave yourself away there. That may be true that its no longer a novelty but that doesn't make it any less wrong. During the crusades torrching people by the stake wasn't much of a novelty either, but does that mean we should stop bringing attention to it and shaming it? No. In 20 years you might even say that transgender heros in games wont be such a novelty either, but again, does a new standard mean that we cannot fight that standard or that by virtue of being standard a standard can not be wrong? 

Wait, are you saying it's wrong for women to be leads in video games?

I'm saying that you're taking what is currently the standard and implying that by virtue of being the standard it is no longer worth fighting against it's proponents by calling them SJW's etc. Whether it's right or wrong is a personal belief, but you're taking it as a universal value that by virtue of being the standard now cannot be rightfully questioned as SJW. The fact that 30 years ago, had modern games existed, people would have been outraged at scantily clad female leads proves that it's not a universal value, it's simply a value forced in to the mainstream by past SJW's. I see no issue with people calling those kinds of people out as sjw's online - but you seem to have a dismissive attitude about it.