It’s been a rough couple of days for video game enthusiasts who hate women and scream about things being “woke” all the time. According to a story on Bloomberg this past Wednesday, sources within game developer Rockstar are saying that GTA 6 will have a lady as one of the main characters.
Rockstar’s next game, Grand Theft Auto VI, will include a playable female protagonist for the first time, according to people familiar with the game. The woman, who is Latina, will be one of a pair of leading characters in a story influenced by the bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde, the people said. Developers are also being cautious not to “punch down” by making jokes about marginalized groups, the people said, in contrast to previous games.
I took a stroll over to the KotakuInAction subreddit, home to Reddit’s forever gamergaters, to see how they were taking the news.
Not so well, it turns out.
Some are worried that the new female protagonists will be some sort of preachy SJW.
Another commenter figured that Rockstar should go all the way and have three female protagonists at once. “I’d have loved it if they didn’t pussy out actually and went full Woke with GTA6,” wrote AboveSkies.
Just make it a Stronk Black Womxn, a SASSY LATINXA and a Gender Studies major and make their conversations be about the pay gap and what horrible misogypigs men are and how they hate white men.
Some worried that the inclusion of a woman protagonist, in a game where you can land helicopters on top of blimps and drive off of cliffs with no injuries and shoot up strip clubs with tanks, would make the game seem a little unrealistic.
Others were less concerned about a female lead character than they were about the game making its jokes more about “punching up” than “punching down.” Because making fun of marginalized people is genuinely funny while making fun of white men is unacceptable bigotry.
Well that makes perfect sense to me. Fuck those fucking puppies.
And then there was the guy with a bug up his butt about cartoon mouse Speedy Gonzales.
I just hope these guys don’t injure themselves boycotting this game SO HARD when it comes out in a couple of years.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Speedy Gonzales was hugely popular in Mexico. Aladdin was huge in the Middle East. I found this out when I walked in on a group of friends animatedly debating on whether Robin Williams or the guy on the Arabic dub was a better singer. Disney was apparently rather unprepared for this and did not even release an official Arabic dub of the movie until 10 years afterwards. Sure the movie is incredibly racist towards you, but when other movies don’t even mention your existence, racist is better than nothing.
I should point out that I was born and raised in the US and found the racist caricatures to be cringe, although the movie is still too amazing to hate. They grew up in the West Bank and it was the Disney movie there, so the same thing in Latin American culture with Speedy Gonzales would seem natural to me.
@Dave
I’m much further south than Mexico, but I can tell you when I was a kid in the 90s we all loved Speedy Gonzalez. Granted, I still do love Bugs Bunny, one of my favorite cartoon characters ever, and the Loony Toons in general were in every tv every afternoon.
In fact, Mexicans do love Speedy Gonzalez, so much so it’s actually a registered trope.
I had a friend who worked in game design in the late 90s. They made a female protagonist with a small chest and muscular. The company funding their development made them change her to be sexier. This has been going on forever. Thanks gamergate.