Fire Emblem: You're Doing It Wrong

[mark_asphodel]

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.

Comments

[samuraiter]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

[amielleon]

Iawtp

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

[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.

[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?