1. La Representación de Mujeres en Videojuegos.
La forma en que se diseñan, escriben y perciben los personajes femeninos en los videojuegos es un tema recurrente de debate. Las discusiones abarcan desde la sexualización y la falta de diversidad en los diseños, hasta los roles narrativos limitados y la necesidad de justificar la presencia de protagonistas femeninas fuertes.
- Games are art but theres a cadre of dude who lose their shit when theres a woman character who doesnt look like an airbrushed blow up doll.
- There is a trend of video game narratives where women are prominent to be overly focused on motherhood and the natural nurturing urges were all supposed to harbor. It happens even when the woman in question wears power armor and blasts aliens with a giant arm cannon.
- I adore dev teams that make their games lead characters women. But its really depressing how they almost always have at least one moment of explaining why their lead is a woman. Like it needs to be justified.
- I do wish people would recognize that like, video games still really often suck at depicting women, and no, a woman doing a cool thing once or doing a cool thing through vectors that allow women to do things e.g. Motherhood doesnt exactly counter it.
- I’m sorry but buff woman shoot alien is way hotter than anime tiddy demon, gamers gotta get their shit together.
2. Identidad Transgénero y Experiencias en el Gaming.
La comunidad de jugadores y desarrolladores transgénero ha generado importantes conversaciones sobre la inclusión y la representación. Se destaca la presencia de personajes trans, el trabajo de desarrolladores trans y las experiencias personales de identificación y aceptación a través de los videojuegos, a menudo en contraste con la transfobia persistente.
- I was saying to orin this is one of the most transfem games ive ever seen, you hatch an elf girl from an egg and raise her and take care of her and there a pink white and blue palette called blahaj and orin looked at it and said oh yeah and its gameboy style, yeah a trans woman made this.
- I saw a now ex-friend this morning go on about samus is actually a real woman and could never be trans, but seemingly overlooked the fact that poison and bridget are trans video game characters. Whether a video game has a trans woman, she is in fact a real woman because she identifies as that.
- In 1980, a trans woman won americas first video game championship. The industry wrote her out of the story. Open.substack.compubandychar.
- Glitch paying a high profile trans woman to make a game for them after the whole dana terrace incident has me like thats all im gonna say, lest the transmisogynists throw a hissy fit about how erm actually were the oppressors and theyre the oppressed. Cool looking game, but im uncomfortable.
- Playing bg3 as a trans woman felt so wonderful. Faerun is not a perfect utopia, but there just being people like me and no one giving a fuck felt like heaven. Really helpful in my transition.
3. Misoginia y la Cultura "Woke" en los Videojuegos.
Una parte de la comunidad de jugadores expresa un fuerte rechazo a la diversidad y la inclusión, etiquetando los esfuerzos por una mayor representación como "woke". Estas críticas a menudo se manifiestan en quejas sobre protagonistas femeninas, personajes no sexualizados o la presencia de minorías, revelando una resistencia a los cambios en la narrativa y el diseño de personajes.
- Male gamers be like theres a woman as the main protagonist and she doesnt have big boobs and otherwise less sexualized body traits? this game is ass !
- Maga why the fuck do i have to play as a woman?? woke is ruining gaming buys 2 games a year woke i only play video games with female poc player-characters dark woke i dont give a fuck if i have to play as a bitch as long as i can give her a dick in the customize menu.
- Gamers have terrible taste in women there are so many beautiful women and you guys turn every npc into the same beautiful woman.
- Be careful, they added a woman in this game to please wokeism even tho women are genetically incapable of guns.
- I cant qwhite figure out why a game with a black woman lead would be so hated. The common refrain seems to be bad story unrealistic mc. Are you sure thats what youre feeling there, big guy?
4. El Caso de Nintendo y Metroid.
La franquicia Metroid y su protagonista, Samus Aran, son un punto focal en las discusiones sobre la representación femenina en Nintendo. A pesar de tener una heroína icónica, la compañía ha sido criticada por su inconsistente reconocimiento, la tendencia a sexualizar a Samus o a encasillarla en roles maternales, y la introducción de personajes masculinos que restan protagonismo a la experiencia solitaria de Samus.
- Its metroid, a franchise featuring a woman protagonist that theyve very regularly refused to give the same level of acknowledgment and respect as link or mario or even pikachu, so this wouldnt surprise me.
- Now is it misogynist for nintendo to make their only woman main character a maternal figure? yeah but its not like she wasnt that from almost the beginning.
- Western fans wow, samus is so cool, its refreshing that she can be a woman and not have that define her character as a badass space bounty hunter nintendo what? no, being a woman is the most important thing about her, and entirely defines her character, actually.
- Samus and metroid itself is heavily based on ellen ripleyalien and iirc she specifically became a bounty hunter because space pirates killed her family and she wanted revenge lol trying to force samus into a motherly role just because shes a woman is misogynist at best.
- I thought metroid was about a stoic badass woman in armor but im glad they decided to add some annoying men to it we need more of those in games for sure.
5. Experiencia del Jugador y Autoidentificación.
La forma en que los jugadores se relacionan con los personajes y las narrativas de los videojuegos es profundamente personal. Muchos, especialmente mujeres y personas trans, buscan personajes con los que identificarse o que les permitan explorar diferentes identidades. Sin embargo, las experiencias en línea a menudo se ven empañadas por el acoso y la misoginia, lo que resalta la necesidad de espacios más seguros e inclusivos.
- I preferred playing as female characters in video games long before i figured out i was trans. Id still play as the occasional male character but now? unless i can play as a woman, your game doesnt even exist to me.
- I love that 7 is about the need to protect sex workers and immigrants from a rising fascist movement but both games do still have a very paternalistic attitude towards women and young women in particular that isnt great. Infinite wealth at least finally lets a woman fight.
- I am obsessed with every woman in hades 2 this game really is for the girls and the gays with mommy issues.
- As a woman who grew up from the 70s on playing dd in one form or another i saw a lot of this first hand. Finding a good figure for your cool chick fighter was nigh impossible. The 1ers that object assume theyre the ideal of high level characters and hate seeing people have fun without them.
- If you ever want to try to be a woman for a spell, post a souls clip to reddit and experience the hordes of smug men rush over each other to explain the game to you.