| Metroid33slayer said: Replace the word white with any other race and male with female and this bigot gets fired and never works in the industry again. It's a sickening double standard. |
Let’s test that out.
”yet another gruff Asian female protagonist!”
”yet another gruff black female protagonist!”
”yet another gruff Indian female protagonist!”
Yeah no, those don’t seem to have the same bite that the white male one has, mostly because the very idea that you’d be tired of seeing gruff Indian or black or Asian etc etc women lead video game characters is laughable at best because there pretty much aren’t any. Yet gruff white male makes sense because the vast majority of less characters are white, and the vast majority of bikers in entertainment media are portrayed as scruffy.
If we were to get a game with a scruffy Asian lead character and someone said “I originally wrote this character off as just another scruffy Asian male protagonist then I’d not only question the motives of that writer but also the credibility because it’s so out of whack with reality.
