Nintendo Switch

[MayImilae]

In response to Kurausukun:

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Fanservice is by its very nature misogynistic, because it comes out of a misogynistic culture. And, it's not harmless. Here's what fanservice is:

1. Distorting female bodies to meet exaggerate male sexual desires (xenoblade VERY much has this)
2. Positioning of the female character's body and camera to be sexually inviting *cough*
3. Robbing the female character of agency. That way, they cannot refuse male advances, or will "fake" refuse but are still available for exploitation (tsundere, et). In no cases does no mean no, and the character is robbed the ability to genuinely say no.

The whole point of fanservice is to turn women into objects for male consumption. That's it. They want to turn us into moving sex dolls, not living breathing people with minds of our own! Robbing women of humanity is the fundamental aspect of misogyny, and fan service is exactly that. Not only is it a reflection of misogyny in our culture, but it perpetuates misogyny in new generations, and helps maintains the misogynic view that women are not human and are thus not worthing of being treated as humans. This is not harmless.

Xenoblade 2 has done the first and second of these, and has done them A LOT already. So far it hasn't done the third. And I'm certainly hoping they don't cross that line.