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GameOverture said:
Megiddo said:
Portal is feminist game? In what respect? Is Glados supposed to be representative of the patriarchal society? That's bizarre.

Well, Portal 1 has an entirely female cast (even if it's just two characters) and in Portal 2 Glados and Chell team up against Wheatley. Portal is also apparently directd by a woman (something I didn't know until today). If feminist media stands for representation of women, then it seems Portal is a feminist game 

That's not what I understand feminism to be though. I would think the recent Star Wars sequels where female characters are shown to be wholly superior to the male characters in practically every way would be more the kind of feminism OP is asking about. To which I would say that Horizon Zero Dawn is actually a pretty good case. Since other than the father figure, pretty much every male character in that game is either completely incompetent or fully dependent on Aloy or both. That's the sort of "women power, rah rah rah" feel that I understand feminism to be all about.