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@Naturalviolence

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This doesn't really need the spoiler tag but meh, might as well! Also this is getting kind of off-topic, so I'll only respond if I feel like I really need to respond ...like this one.

NaturalViolence Wrote:Do you get offended when the men are nearly impossibly ripped in video games too?

*sigh* That has nothing to do with women. The super common "super ripped male blowing stuff up" trope is a male power fantasy, and it is very common in the west. It is made by men, for men, for male consumption, and it is not targeting women at all. Of course ripped male power fantasies aren't necessarily misogynistic, but that trope is typically mated with women used as rewards for the buff manly man to obtain and consume. THAT'S misogyny, especially since it implies that to be manly like the power fantasy, one has to treat women as objects.

NaturalViolence Wrote:I'm sorry but it seems logical that any kind of visual media would want their characters to look attractive/good.

You go into quite a ramble there, but I was by no means saying characters can't look good! If you read my post, I went through three points about what "fanservice" is. Just making characters look nice is not called fanservice, even if the character is female. The question is, is she a PERSON with her own personality and opinions (and ability to say no and mean it), and does her design, posing, and camera treat her like a person, or an object. You can have a character with large breasts (human anatomically correct at least please) and they still be a great character.

When you have a character that has been distorted to inhumane levels to exaggerate features men like (often to the point where they defy physics and hinder her ability to MOVE), who is posed and shown in highly suggestive positions, and has no personality other than to be available for male consumption... that's not a character, that's not a person, that's a thing to be consumed. And that is still very common.

And so we're clear, this isn't harmless. What do you think creates misogyny, what do you think spreads the concept that women are just objects and don't deserve to be treated as people, showing people that women are objects over and over and over: FANSERVICE!

Through multiple exposures throughout culture, it's no longer a weird exception, it becomes accepted as normal. There was a time not that long ago where it was difficult to find a game or film that didn't treat women as objects, and where finding a story with a female protagonist (outside of "girly" content specifically made for women that men considered beneath them) was impossible. What happens when this is established, then have men and women interacting day to day, such as in the work place? These cultural views will influence personal interactions, both in men treating women more as objects, trying to force women into boundaries and/or trying to consume/exploit them, and in women ourselves just trying to survive and not push it because we feel we don't deserve to be treated as human. That's misogyny!

And well, there's only one way to improve culture, and that is to point out the uncomfortable truth that everyone wants to ignore. So people like me have to make a bit of noise and point this out.

Aaaanyway, back to the topic on hand! It's on shield in china because of the difficulties getting a console into china, that's pretty obvious. It's never going to leave china on the shield. But the shield and switch share their hardware! It would be easy to use this as the groundwork for switch VC! Go for it Nintendo!