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That's the stupidest thing I've ever read.

If you really want to oversimplify, it would be "in this society, both genders do not get equal treatment and it's totally fine to offset that imbalance by focusing on the viewpoint of a gender that is overwhelmingly silenced by the majority in the media"

Hm. You have a point.

That's a fallacy, because we DON'T live in an equal society. Once we do, I will gladly be there to clamor for a male point of view when it is missing.

Well that escalated quickly.

If you felt demeaned an ostracized "simply because" you are male, maybe your male opinion was uninformed and coming purely from a place of privilege.

Then it's pretty much just you, because I've seen it happen so many times on this very site. And whenever there IS an article with women's opinions, you see the comments filled with "GO TO JEZEBEL THIS IS MAN TIME".

The words themselves may be problematic, but contextually they were the correct words to use. Beauty standards of the past (and, come to think of it, right now as well) were that women were supposed to have golden skin and waspish figures. Thus, the image of the "mammy" HAD to go against that by being as dark as…

But it doesn't. It talks about cosplayers, and both cosplayers are, coincidentally, female. The title isn't "Female Cosplayer's Opinions and No Male Cosplayers."

Is it really that hard to identify with a fellow human being regardless of their sex? Do you REALLY need to be represented as a male in every single piece of media you consume?

"Sometimes. . . sometimes my balls kind of show through the spandex." — the extent of exclusively male problems in cosplay.

As soon as there's a way to filter out your comments, yeah.

Oh, snap!

Sorry, that was a bit vague on my part.

Can you explain how it is that in-story justification fixes things?

It was still a choice by the game makers to have the white protagonist shooting up hordes of racist caricatures, in-story justification or not.

Funnier than that joke, I suppose.

lol white people making jokes about issues they fundamentally cannot understand