It’s interesting how all these complaints seem to be based on making stuff up/ignoring stuff that doesn’t fit in with the message being pushed.
Why no love for Merrix and his knuckle dusters? Dude’s a pretty BA robot.
We get the Rush Hour reference pair of Buddy Cops who are a pretty decent example of the trope, and Blizz, you better be coming up with more crimes for them to solve in all the patches coming up.
And as I haven’t gotten too much into their end game stuff gonna leave it short for the General and Vizier, who are both seem to excel at their work.
And there are other male characters around that are fine and in little roles.
But dear god so many BS complaints that just make it clear you don’t want to enjoy things, you just want to find things to hate about stuff.
Baelgrim making a heroic action movie style self sacrifice is sexist or something?
Really touching questline about losing a loved one to dementia, again sexist because the next in line is a woman,
Story beat where older experienced type gets back in the saddle but declines leadership, but sticks around to mentor the new leader who has to learn the job, sexist again.
Since no male characters are allowed to die or something complaints about Eirich, who I will admit I wish had stuck around a bit more, because whoever the VA was, did a great job hamming it up and I feel like he could have been a great recurring nemesis in a somewhat comic sense. (We really needed more instances of him showing up on that throne)
Why does it have to be an either or situation? An old feminist professor I had would comment that in order for women to be equal we need to shackle the men so they can catch up. I don’t agree with that sentiment. Yes, minority populations have been marginalized in the past but equal representation now is the way to move forward not putting those marginalized groups in front. Restricting or hamstringing others to do it just perpetuates the inequality.
I mean one of my favorite characters got a hole shot in his head early in Gears of War, doesn’t make him any less distinguished a character for just doing their job as a grunt.
I wish, been far too long that various fandom conversations have been flooded by weak virtue signalling culture warriors who cannot enjoy the mediums, but must search for examples of things to hate and rage about. It’ll be nice to discuss a work on its merits rather than wading through poseurs who don’t know the first thing about various franchises feigning expertise and decry “woke” that has always been there, and thinly veiling bigotry behind empty criticisms that they cannot elaborate on.
Can you explain why any better than the other people I see trashing it emptily?
Actual explanation, not just a recitation of categories of complaint.
Like saying “Lt Mary Sue is a Mary Sue” is just the start, and empty on its own. “Lt Mary Sue is a Sue because she’s better than Scotty at engineering tasks, finds some medical issue that Bones missed, knows more languages than Uhuru, is beloved by nearly everyone only disliked by the bad characters (who are bad because they don’t like Mary Sue) has Spock and Kirk fighting over her, and when she dies tragically the whole ship mourns her loss for the rest of the mission” is explaining the issue.
I mean, right now I’m doubtful since you’re sounding like all the other people who are trotting out complaints designed from the same checklist.
