So it’s true: Feminists have started ruining video games with all their feminism. At least according to some dude called pullupjumper on MGTOWforums who recently wrote a post warning his fellow red pill dudebros about a little game called The Last of Us, which is not only filled with zombies but, get this, girls.
For anyone who plays video games as one of their hobbies, The Last of Us is a pretty fun game…. but…. The feminist messages were close to ruining a game I waited a year for… The game’s setting is in a zombie apocalyptic world and the basic story (no spoilers) is that this guy has to take a 14 year old girl across the country during the zombie apocalypse. Almost as soon as the story started, I knew pretty much every female character in the game (except for the main protagonists daughter) would be portrayed as a”bad ass” character. The message was clear, women are as strong as men… Even when they are only 14.
Also, there were some adult ladies in positions of authority!
During the game , the two main characters meet different survivor groups. Every group leader was a woman. The only group leader who was a man, was a bad guy. The main protagonist even said yes ma’am, no ma’am to these women.
CAN YOU IMAGINE.
Now before you all go, but isn’t this sort of complaining a little hypocritical, given that all these video game dudes got mad when that chick Anita Sarkeesian who isn’t even a real gamer because of boobies made those videos she totally stole all that money for because IT’S ONLY A GAME, LADY JEEZ DON’T RUIN EVERYTHING WITH YOUR STUPID GENDER ANALYSIS.
Well, no, it’s not totally hypocritical because, get this, the girls in The Last of Us are portrayed as being unnaturally strong and capable.
What was pretty funny though is that the 14 year old girl is able to fire a rifle THAT IS BIGGER THAN HER and fire it accurately.
This is a clear affront to the extreme naturalism and realism of a game about a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.
And clearly never before in video game history has any male character been portrayed as unnaturally strong or capable.
Oh but it gets worse:
On the other hand, (not funny) another boy who was about the 14 year old girls age, was portrayed as weak, could not fight, could not shoot a gun and was just made to seem very weak. The Fems cant even leave their “girl power” out of the games.
A male character who is helpless and in need of rescue?
OH NO!
SAVE ME PRINCESS PEACH!
Happily, pullupjumper has an idea for a way to confront this creeping feminism:
Maybe, if any of you are interested, a couple of us can get together and start making our own games after these games become unbearable. What do you guys think?
Grimlock is right there with him:
I’m currently going to school for media arts and animation and am considering starting a small indy animation/film studio with a couple of guys from class. I also happen to be getting pretty good at 3d modeling … and even though i want to start with animation and film video games are my end game.
I don’t think I’d ever put an obvious message into a game, since I find pushing your belief onto others through mediums like videogames more than a little cunty, but will my games be misogynist? You better fucking believe it. Misogyny The likes of which will make duke nukem blush. I won’t need to tell you guys when I break into the industry, you’ll know it from the sheer uproar it’ll cause.
Misogyny … in video games? Now there’s a novel idea!
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Oh, I’ve seen those in pet stores Argenti! I’ve been wondering if they work, I think I’ll give them a go. My cat might chew them off, but if they work that would be great.
I’ve been playing the game this weekend. It started off really slowly, but then I went back to it the next day and it totally sucked me in. It’s very well crafted.
And the guys complaining about it in the OP, they are totally just making stuff up to complain about.
I wanted to try them on my ex’s cats when we where living together, but the Maine coon didn’t scratch and the bengal (who rather needed them, razor sharp claws) would have nothing to do with being touched unless she was Totally In Control.
Kim – par for the course with MRAs, isn’t it?
Dogs with docked tails actually are at a disadvantage: they have a harder time communicating with other dogs.
You Black Beauty fans should read Beautiful Joe, a book from the same period about a dog. Includes discussions of tail docking and many other things we shouldn’t still be arguing about.
Say, with the nail covers, how do the cats get around to scratching their claws? They’re still going to have the urge to do it, and they won’t be able to strop the outer layers off with those on, will they?
::looks at sad ruin of a tapestry chair:: Thank you Mags and Mads …
I saw an adoption flyer recently for a cat that’s been declawed and they’re insisting that it be outdoor only. That worries me – surely that cat will have a really hard time defending itself against other cats (and raccoons and possums, which we have plenty of).
Docked tails make me sad.
The fuck?! Declawed cats MUST be indoor cats, they can’t defend themselves!
Kitteh — they grow out with the nail per the FAQ.
Outdoor cats that have been declawed have a really tough time, especially if there are other cats in the neighbourhood.
Yeah, I imagine the covers only last long enough for the nail to grow out so you can clip them and then cut them again.
Er, cap them again.
“Dogs with docked tails actually are at a disadvantage: they have a harder time communicating with other dogs.”
Huh, did not think of that. Doesn’t change much in regards to my opinion — both are Very Very Wrong.
@ Argenti
Yeah, I was going…what? It’s not uncommon to run across rescue orgs that will only adopt their cats out to homes that will allow them to go outdoors (and I’ve seen it the other way around too), but once a cat has been declawed surely that train has long since left the station.
Oh yeah, I’ve certainly since “this cat will not be happy stuck indoors” but they’ve ALWAYS had their claws intact. And then, all the “declawed, indoor cat only” kitties. Like, these are not overlapping circles, this is not a Venn diagram!
I got that the covers grow out, I was just thinking of the cat’s urge to strop while they’re on.
We’re able to clip our kitties’ claws without much trouble, fortunately. Main difficulty is catching the, because OMG your’re following me you must be about to do something CRUUUUUEELLLLLL like give me a pill!
*catching them
They still pad at things, but it’s not going to catch like nails do.
I bet my two would react … badly … to them. Not that I need to get ’em. Our furniture’s beyond redemption. To think, we’d planned to get our chairs re-covered when Magnus the Destroyer left. Good thing we didn’t, since Madeleine the Destroyer is just as bad!
I’ve heard they work really well, but I just can’t imagine caring enough to bother. 😀
That is so cute! Cats are good at sounding like they’re being killed if they don’t like something. 😛 One of my coworkers actually taped her cat being groomed to get cat screaming sounds for a film maker. Persephone does not like being made to do anything!
Arh, WTF? Like Argenti said: not an overlapping venn diagram! 8(
Hopefully someone adopts the cat to go “outside” and keeps it in. 😛 I bought some rats off our trading site to go to the rescue because these people were insisting their rats had to live outside. Not a good idea. They also swore black and blue their rats lived to 5… right…
I felt bad lying to them because they were nice, if ignorant, people. But rats are not outside pets! (Gets too damn cold, wild rats can make them sick or injure them.)
Hrovitnir, Fribbie’s a classic shrieker. Pick her up from your lap – SCREEAAM! Pat her when she’s not expecting it – SCREEEAM! Look like you’re about to pat her or pick her up – SCREEEAM!
This from a cat who hardly even waits for you to sit down before she’s swarming into your lap, btw. I was trying to fix my sock the other night, sitting on the couch with my foot over my knee, and she was pushing in to sit on my nonexistent lap RIGHT NOW.
Huh, my mother’s cat barely makes a peep (and sounds like she’s taken voice lessons from the birds when she does). The ex’s Maine coon sounded like a goddamned freight train purring, but never did much more than that. And the bengal…you only knew she was there is she walked in front of you (though she did make some hilarious begging sounds, we bonded over pepperoni and my having the opposable thumbs needed to open the fridge 🙂 )
Opposable thumbs and laps, the reasons humans exist! 😀
We’ve had some big purrers. Fribs makes a fair bit of noise for such a small (and, these days, bony) cat. Mads doesn’t make so much. She’s one for forcing out little trilly or warbly noises – lots of belly-squeezing effort and maybe scrunching up the face, but not a lot of sound comes out.
Haha! Opposable thumbs are pretty much the reasons for humans. 😀
Funny your Bengal was quiet, Argenti: they tend to be fairly vocal. Not like Siamese or similar but you know about it when they want your attention. lol
Our cats are mostly pretty quiet. Klaus “talks” a bit – makes little MROW, MROW noises when you come home, walking with you and talking, and when he enters a room, like “I’M HERE!”
We had a (possibly stray?) cat that used to come into our house at night when all our cats were allowed outside so the window was always open. He’d eat our food and sometimes sleep on our bed with our other cats – wouldn’t let us near him though. You’d hear him going MROW, MROW, MROW, quick little noises while he walked up. Then he’d silently jump up to the windowsill and onto the ground. Once he was in, he’s start talking again. He was so funny.
I hope he’s OK. He has the entire (non-neutered) male look about his face, and he acted semi-feral in his reactions to humans, so I do think he was stray. He was always healthy looking though.
Oh, declawing, that’s a kind of amputation!
In Sweden it’s illegal to cut off body parts of pets if it’s not for a medical reason. Except for n/s. Some people think this is hypocritical and argue that n/s also involves taking away healthy body parts, but I think there’s an important difference. The body parts that are removed at n/s also produces the hormones that makes the pet wanna use said body parts. Without testicles, it’s not the case that a male pet merely loses the ability to mate but still has the urges. Rather, the big effect is on the very urge itself. The same thing with removing ovaries and womb; the female pet won’t go into heat any longer. It’s not the case that she still gets heat periods but is somehow physically prevented from actually mating.
If you take away claws on the other hand, all the urges to scratch and use the claws are still there, only the cat is no longer able to. So you’ve really made zir an amputée. I’d think (although this is speculation it would be less bad for a dog to be cropped and/or docked than for a cat to be declawed, but it still impacts the dog’s ability to communicate with others.
And it’s still completely pointless surgery. A big motivation for n/is is usually the benefits this procedure brings to the animals – no future generations that can’t find a home in the case of outdoor pets that could reproduce otherwise, diminished risk for certain diseases, less stress when other pets in the area go into heat. But there’s seriously no benefits to the pet zirself from declawing and cropping. Docking, possibly, in those breeds that are at risk for breaking their tail, but still, since only some breeds are prone to break their tail it’s clearly a breeding problem at bottom and should be approached as such.
I just read Clarimonde–pretty good! I kept being reminded of H. Rider Haggard’s She, I guess mostly because both feature, powerful, impossibly beautiful, amoral women who are strongly motivated by passionate love. And also Victorian beauty descriptions have a lot in common.