I agree on the ubiquitousness of the trope.

Again, you are missing the point. What's offensive isn't the roles, specifically, it is the fact that Asians are almost always shoehorned into those roles. I'm asking for more diversity, not less of currently existing roles. Daniel Dae Kim's role in Hawaii Five-0 or Tim Kang's in The Mentalist are interesting cases…

As would I, honestly. That game she mentions sounds actually interesting.

Denzel Washington
Will Smith
Samuel L. Jackson
Morgan Freeman
Lawrence Fishburne
Eddie Murphy
Omar Epps
Donald Faison
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ernie Hudson

Anyway, that's not really the point. You're ignoring the larger issue here. If black men were only ever evil or only ever laughed at in movies the NAACP would have a hernia.…

Keep at it, all anyone needs is some willpower.

That's not the point. The point is how far you have to reach in order to find those examples. Can you name even ten? I can name ten for white/black guys, easily.

I guess we can chalk it up to taking away different things from what she said; I thought it meant that characters can rely on each other but not so much as to be a damsel in distress.

Well, that's why I can agree with her fundamental principles but find issue with her individual viewpoints.

It's disappointing, but I wouldn't want the Jet Lis of the media vanish so that I can get more Daniel Dae Kim (I really had to dig to find a single Asian main character ... and he's from Hawaii Five-0... typical :P).

She has a lot of good points in her video, but it seems a bit one sided.

Ahahaha, I feel your pain, bro (or sis). I was on a diet myself a few months back. Lost 50 pounds. Now I eat like a pig. A judicious pig, but a pig nonetheless. :P

That's an excellent point, if not ... uh, tactfully put.

I agree. I'm just pointing out that that's kind of the inference I'm getting from her message, which makes me (subconsciously at least) find her arguments a little hard to swallow despite agreeing with the fundamental principles she bases them on.

I know she didn't advocate that all women in games needed to be like that, but it seems the pervading belief she had was that employment of this trope was inherently bad and that it should never be used - even if you enjoy the game that uses it, it's still a bad trope that demeans women just by being there. That's the…

I would disagree on the GO OUT AND DO IT argument, and I'll tell you why:

Thanks a lot, asshat. Now I want steak.

....uh.

I think I understand the the problem I have with Sarkeesian's videos.

Detractors of this argument says that it stems from the issue that the other side's position is always one stemming from privilege and ignorance.

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