...ok? No one is claiming japanese people are genetically sexist. Just that Japanese games and mainstream culture have very objectifying tendencies. Weird way to down r play this.
You say it shouldn't be down played yet in your first sentence you did exactly that.
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It's not downplaying anything. It's just like I said earlier,
some people are coming into this and other threads and
trying to shit all over Japanese culture rather than
looking at the problems within Japanese culture (and perhaps see how they can be solved)... and they aren't helpful. Like there are people saying things like "what's wrong with Japan" without any qualifiers, as if it's inherent to Japan itself rather than an ongoing problem of patriarchy that almost all cultures face and Japan is behind on.
You can specifically look at Japanese problems surrounding gender and depiction of women and say "okay, this is bad and worse than what we typically see over here" and ask "what about Japanese culture might be feeding this, and how can the Japanese progress in that regard?" without making potentially xenophobic/racist statements. Thankfully
most people have been avoiding it, but I've seen a couple that are borderline and I only didn't report because I second guess myself in topics about Japan all the time and wonder if it's just my appreciation of the good parts of the culture blinding me.
Again, it's thankfully mostly the case that people actually concerned about misogyny and not just looking to dunk on Japan are posting. But I am interpreting some posts otherwise.
Mineta sucks
Hopefully he gets written out or turned into a villain sidekick
Yeah, or he gets the shit kicked out of him for real, reprimanded by multiple authority figures, and is forced to grow up. But none of the above will happen because ""loveable" pervert" tropes get a free pass to be disgusting to women with nothing more than slight anger at their antics.
What the hell is going on at Sega loc
That's what I'm asking after a couple of these translation comparisons, it's like they made some of the dialogue more sexist, wtf.
I'll wait until I play the game before I form an opinion on this. A lot of times authors of "outrage articles" will only present information that fits the narrative they want to create and omit anything that may go against it, which is the feeling I'm getting about this based on some of the comments here from people who have (seemingly) played the game.
1) It's not an "outrage article". It's a woman noticing sexism in a game she played and musing why it might feature such sexism. It perhaps ignores that #MeToo by and large is an movement that doesn't see a lot of, if any, mention in countries outside of the Anglosphere and Western Europe, but it's still a very legitimate article.
2) There are numerous examples throughout the thread. It's... a lot more egregious than in recent games like Persona 5 or Dragon Quest 11. It's... kinda REALLY bad. Almost shits on the legacy of the original game IMO, just from those snippets. But I mean you can still check out the game, just.... don't be surprised if you're disgusted.
Raz' behavior is supposed to be endearing. The game also pushes a romance between the two characters, and is related to a major plot point that just so happens to be some of the worst writing in the genre.
And this just loops back around to what I was saying about anime and games being made by men who don't know how and don't want to learn how to talk to women. The idea any guy who acts like this can get with any woman with a modicum of self-respect is laughable.
But if it ok to adress men as 'males'; how is that helping gender equality?
Supposing you're being genuine with this. It's not okay to address men as "males", though. Again, for humans, male and female are adjectives. They are only nouns for animals and objects. Thus, using them as nouns for humans is dehumanizing and objectifiying, and it's particularly problematic when you use it with women as women are 100 times more objectified than men already. And, again, you can use male and female as adjectives. "Female gamer" or "male author", for instance.