Fire Emblem: You're Doing It Wrong
Sep. 18th, 2012 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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Date: 2012-09-18 02:45 pm (UTC)I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 03:14 pm (UTC)Also, nothing remotely "slutty" about Eirika but I find her the most ridiculous.
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Date: 2012-09-18 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 04:58 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-09-18 08:17 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-09-18 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 11:02 pm (UTC)PS: Celice looks like a twerp and deserves it.
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Date: 2012-09-18 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 06:34 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2012-09-18 10:32 pm (UTC)