shikamaru317 said:
What really grinds my gears is the fact that many of the same people that complain about characters like these:
are the same people drooling over characters like these:
They claim that these sexy female game characters are unrealistic and drive unrealistic beauty standards that harm women, and yet they are right there drooling over sexy male game characters that the vast majority of male gamers will never be able to look like. But you don't see the male gamers crying over unrealistic standards and asking for the male characters to be made pudgy and balding to better represent the male gender, instead either accept the fact that they aren't going to look like a sexy male game character, or they aspire to look more like those sexy male characters; they hit the gym, pump iron, eat a ton of protein, etc. I see the same thing happening with superhero movies. When men cry fowl over how female super heroes and their outfits are becoming less sexy over time, the feminists claim they are being sexist. But then those same feminists are drooling when Chris Hemsworth takes his shirt off. I just can't abide by all the hypocrisy I'm seeing these days. |
I'm a feminist and I think those unrealistic portrayals of men are just as harmful. Actually most feminists think so too. Toxic masculinity and unrealistic beauty standards negatively effects people of all genders. Feminism at it's core helps men too and agrees that both are harmful and hinders gender equity and agency to be who you are.
Feminist ideology encompasses a lot of different sects. You can't just pick out toxic sects of an ideology and claim it's all of those people of that ideology that believe that. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism and White Feminism are the big sects of problematic feminism among others that you are using to bash all feminists. Intersectional feminists (which I am) make up the majority of feminists and they, like me, would agree with you.
