mark_asphodel: Sage King Leaf (Default)
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I suppose DW isn't the best place to air my grievances with Tumblr-fen, but I'll just post two things here:

1) Discussion of sexuality, gender roles, and what is and is not "normal" in Fire Emblem that uses the GBA Fire Emblem as a starting point and Radiant Dawn as an end point is, shall we say, missing a large part of the picture.  As in, missing six to eight installments of the franchise. 

2) Referring to complaints over the new OA and DLC art as "slut-shaming" when part of the problem is that the male characters are not being portrayed in the same sexualized manner as the female characters, which appears to be a glaring and problematic double standard, honestly misses the point entirely.  

Then again, people who throw around "slut-shaming," like people who throw around "sheeple," are usually not worth the time to debate.

Date: 2012-09-18 02:45 pm (UTC)
samuraiter: (Default)
From: [personal profile] samuraiter
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Date: 2012-09-18 03:14 pm (UTC)
amielleon: The three heroes of Tellius. (Default)
From: [personal profile] amielleon
Iawtp

Also, nothing remotely "slutty" about Eirika but I find her the most ridiculous.

Date: 2012-09-18 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] xenosynth
O_o Slut shaming? I've not encountered this term but... wat.

Then again, I know people who tend to use similar arguments for things. When disagree with them and you are a male, it's sexism, if you disagree with them and are female, internalized sexism or whatever they call it.

Slightly off topic but am I still the only one scared of gangly Ike? I just.... saw him yesterday and I think slender-Ike is creepy.

Date: 2012-09-18 08:17 pm (UTC)
amielleon: Ike from Fire Emblem 10. (Ike: Walk the Line)
From: [personal profile] amielleon
Dude, he looks like a beetle.

To be fair there are a lot of small ways of thinking that really are sexist/internalized sexist that aren't sexist in a "you are a horrible backwards person who beats women" kind of way, but I think it's pretty unproductive to single people out and say they are being so, unless you know them personally and you can have a conversation about it where both parties are listening.

Date: 2012-09-18 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] xenosynth
Yeah, I understand what you mean. There are just sometimes where people use the guise of social justice in order to undermine the opinion of people they don't want to agree with, and when that happens it's very frustrating and hard to argue with someone who can simply dismiss your ideas because they've already determined you are biased or otherwise not worth listening to.

Date: 2012-09-18 11:04 pm (UTC)
amielleon: The three heroes of Tellius. (Default)
From: [personal profile] amielleon
okay that makes me feel better

Date: 2012-09-18 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] xenosynth
Ike is probably my least favorite lord of all the games I've played. At least most lord I play as I get some attachment to (Even if I am still nervous about putting them in the open >.>;)

Date: 2012-09-18 06:34 pm (UTC)
raphiael: (Madoka fail)
From: [personal profile] raphiael
Whenever this crowd realizes there were games before FE7, it's always in the context of "but you're not complaining about FE4!!"
1. I'm pretty sure they know fuckall about FE4, and
2. It's about 15 years late to be calling it problematic-- and do we really want to dredge up crap that was stupid even then?

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