1. IMO it's distasteful to insult designers and call their designs "trash" multiple times in a single post, no matter how much you hate them. Criticisms and insults are two different things, and I think your post was leaning to the latter.
A relatively mild derogatory term for a character design is not insulting a person.
2. Your title is misleading. Nowhere do I find why women criticized sexualised character designs.
It should be titled "Why I criticized sexualised character designs", simply of the fact that you were not speaking for other women besides yourself, nor you providing any statistics to back up your claims(how many women would insult the designers the way you did? for example).
Always best to read the thread first. An OP is an invite to discussion, and plenty of women have added criticism. Your dismissal of the OP while conveniently ignoring the week-long, 50-page, 2,600 post discussion it sparked is silly.
3. Are you implying that men don't criticized sexualised character designs as much as women do with a thread like this? Is there any reason and what's your intention to minimize men with your thread?
I've been posting fairly prolifically in this thread as a bloke and have never felt 'minimised', insulted, ignored or anything less than welcome. Maybe it's because I read the discussion first, or maybe because I realise it's not all about me.
4. Quiet and Cindy and Mario and Kratos, etc. are game/fantasy characters, so asking for them to be treated like real people is baffling.
Why are you taking offence at criticism of character design then?
FYI Snake and Raiden were running around naked in their games too(not just Quiet), and none of the characters in FFXV were wearing appropriate clothings for combat(not just Cindy). So do you see what's wrong?
Yes, the problem is that you can't see the difference between a male character in combat in a poor outfit, and a female character in combat in a poor outfit while the camera drools over her and the animator routinely places her in sexualised poses. Not to mention the far higher rate at which this approach is applied to female characters than male ones in various games, of which there are dozens of examples throughout the thread you haven't read.
5. Quiet and Cindy are side characters who are barely in their respective games. Did you really let that stop you from enjoying the games? Seriously?
You're really struggling with the concept of criticism here. I've enjoyed plenty of games that had elements I thought could have been done better, and seen lengthy discussion of far less visable gaming minutae.
I just hope that people can play games the way they are meant to be played and try to enjoy them as much as they can, and know the differences between games and reality.
We can enjoy them and criticise them. We don't have to just keep quiet because the artistic vision was a touch (or very) sexist, and we don't have to stick to binary 'game is utter failure/game is unquestionably brilliant' logic either.
Do you not understand that while you are protecting the rights of game characters you are actively insulting real life people(game developers)?
I don't understand that because it a) doesn't make sense and b) isn't true.
Do you really think that you are accomplishing anything here in a gaming forum?
What did you think you were accomplishing by typing this out? Telling the OP their post was pointless, at length, when it's clearly had loads of people agreeing with the thrust of it for a week and a half?
Personally how I would fight for women's right in real life: Vote, donate, protest on the streets, educate, get involved, and behave as a decent human being in the real world.
We can do that AND post on games forums. I've posted in lengthy threads about utter minutae of a hundred different subjects and rarely seen the OP told they are wasting their time quite like this. What is it about the cartoon tits that makes it so important to write that people shouldn't write about it?
