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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5949401" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>I don't think I can speak to what others might find sexist very much, but I can say that both of those have their problems.</p><p></p><p>The Tomb Raider trailer focuses a lot on beating up Lara Croft. I get that this is kind of where SquareEnix was going: gritty, survival-style stuff. But any trailer that is showing a continuous beat-down of a girl is going to flash all sorts of alarm bells. It squicks me out a little because it shows that SquareEnix is at least a little blinded by its privilege. They don't get to exist in a world where violence against women specifically isn't a real problem, so they need to be aware of that and pro-actively address that if the concept of the game is "Lara Croft, a young woman, gets her butt kicked for 30 hours or so."</p><p></p><p>If she's supposed to rise to heroism (and she certainly SHOULD, given that this is a prequel!), the trailer doesn't show a lot of that. Which, again, is probably part of the point (the rise to heroism is the part you play!), it just makes SE in sort of a catch-22. They're going to be accused of sexism and misogyny, but the burden is on them to make sure that their game ISN'T, even though the preview might suggest otherwise. When what you have on offer is "A girl gets beat up for two minutes," the burden is on you to show that you're not just doing it as a snuff film. </p><p></p><p>As for the Hitman trailer, I just don't know why they were dressed like dominatrixes under those habits. Or even why they're all women. But the same idea of privilege exists: they don't get to pretend they are in a world where violence against women is perfectly fine to glorfiy.</p><p></p><p>What these both hinge on is that in a world where women and men were completely equal in society, they'd probably be fine (if a little ridiculous in the Hitman case). But we <em>don't</em> live in that world, and to ignore the fact that we don't live in that world risks whitewashing actual problems that the world has. You don't get to pretend you can represent violence against women without a reaction, because your media exists in a cultural landscape that is greater than you, and that cultural landscape right now includes some very problematic gender-based violence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5949401, member: 2067"] I don't think I can speak to what others might find sexist very much, but I can say that both of those have their problems. The Tomb Raider trailer focuses a lot on beating up Lara Croft. I get that this is kind of where SquareEnix was going: gritty, survival-style stuff. But any trailer that is showing a continuous beat-down of a girl is going to flash all sorts of alarm bells. It squicks me out a little because it shows that SquareEnix is at least a little blinded by its privilege. They don't get to exist in a world where violence against women specifically isn't a real problem, so they need to be aware of that and pro-actively address that if the concept of the game is "Lara Croft, a young woman, gets her butt kicked for 30 hours or so." If she's supposed to rise to heroism (and she certainly SHOULD, given that this is a prequel!), the trailer doesn't show a lot of that. Which, again, is probably part of the point (the rise to heroism is the part you play!), it just makes SE in sort of a catch-22. They're going to be accused of sexism and misogyny, but the burden is on them to make sure that their game ISN'T, even though the preview might suggest otherwise. When what you have on offer is "A girl gets beat up for two minutes," the burden is on you to show that you're not just doing it as a snuff film. As for the Hitman trailer, I just don't know why they were dressed like dominatrixes under those habits. Or even why they're all women. But the same idea of privilege exists: they don't get to pretend they are in a world where violence against women is perfectly fine to glorfiy. What these both hinge on is that in a world where women and men were completely equal in society, they'd probably be fine (if a little ridiculous in the Hitman case). But we [I]don't[/I] live in that world, and to ignore the fact that we don't live in that world risks whitewashing actual problems that the world has. You don't get to pretend you can represent violence against women without a reaction, because your media exists in a cultural landscape that is greater than you, and that cultural landscape right now includes some very problematic gender-based violence. [/QUOTE]
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