| Megiddo said: I mean, in some ways, how? I can't think of a single time in the Portal games where the protagonist being a woman had any sort of effect on the story. If all that's needed for feminism is a female protagonist then I guess I could see your point. I would think there'd have to be some sort of substance behind it though. I'd say there's a heck of a lot of enmity at the end of Portal 2. The ending theme is literally "Want You Gone". |
Well what that shows is that you know nothing of what it is to be female. I don't know if you remember the old PBS Game/Show program or not, but back when it was around, I thought actually the host, Jamin Warren, did a pretty good job of laying out its pretty extensive feminist narrative credentials (though, as I recently explained in another post on this thread, I don't go as far as he does in proclaiming the Portal games to be like THE feminist masterwork of gaming; that title, as I explained in that post, belongs to Gone Home, I believe). I've done a fair amount of writing on this thread today already, so I'll just refer you to his IMO pretty smart video on that subject if that's okay:
